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absolutely on the swap Muddywitch. My house has been without power for 12 hours now so I have decamped to my mothers. Got down to a low of 36C last night. Am I complaining, yes, sorry. Would love some rain, some cloud, some cool. I promise I wont keep updating you with the temp.

Hello Sleepyowl, I got it a bit wrong it was 45.6C today, hottest day in 70 years and second hottest day on record. My chooks (The Girls) were still panting at 8.00pm this evening.

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Dear Ishers, I have 'lurked' in the background on many forums about this sort of thing and other topics as well ie parenting. I have thought about posting previously but yours is the first I have actually done so on (always been worried I would end up using incorrect technology or spelling or some o...

JulieSherris you read my mind, I was going to ask about the tea/coffee making facilities. One other thing, with the radiators, can you hang wet things on them to dry? Thanks for the info. I just had a quick skim of your blog - good stuff. Hope you will be posting some pics soon too.

Hi Odsox and thanks. I have been poring over the Stanley site which is where I found out about the Donard. Given the current drought and heatwave here I will be insisting that Mr/Ms Waterford Stanley Representative also brings a couple of buckets of water with that catalogue. JulieSherris – this is ...

Good morning Red, Millymollymandy, Muddywitch and Loobyloo. Good morning becks77, corymbia in Australia, JulieSherris and Kiwirach and thank you one and all for the welcome. Kiwirach to answer your question, we are moving to the Barossa Valley in South Australia. And just in case anyone is wondering...

Has this been done to death? If it has my humble apologies in advance. Can you point me to the right page/forum/thread for this. If not, I am in Australia and want to know what peeps thoughts are on these wood burning cookers. Clearly both are good lookers and the Stanley the less expensive of the t...

Hi, I have been web surfing a lot lately and keep coming across your site. Great information. My family and I are in the process of renovating a farmhouse in the country and will be moving out there in the next 12 months. There is no mains water and we are off-grid so we will have to be a bit selfsu...