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We can get burned in the sun in 15 minutes in NZ so the main thing for me is to use a moisturiser that has a factor 30 sunscreen in it . Kiwis are quite wrinkly! My best one is that for years I dyed my hair. It was dark brown naturally but as it got greyer and greyer I had it done blondy. A year ago...

I'm lucky as we have no foxes in NZ so my chickens are in a huge area and sleep up a tree ( by choice, they do have a lovely house) so they get up when they get up. I get up at 6am and in the summer they're up before me, but not in winter. I feed them when I get up, and the dogs and the ducks and do...

We have a small farm and remove all ragwort by hand then it is burned. The poisons arent destroyed by drying it out and you're right it needs to be dug out as it will regrow from root left in the ground. It is especially poisonous to horses and cows as far as I understand but is bad for all farm typ...

I love them. All time favourite way to eat them ( childhood memories!) Is boiled a bit first, then roasted on an old spade right on top of glowing coals in the fire. Spread newspaper all over the floor in front of the fire. Get a sharp knife and cut in half after roasted, peel shell off, sprinkle wi...

thanks guys, we do wake up most mornings and feel like smiling

I'm on facebook and I agree with the others, only put the info in that you are comfortable sharing. I have no dob email address, tel no, really nothing personal at all. I post photos but only those that I don't mind who sees! And also very careful to keep up to date with the privacy settings. I feel...

pipis are small clams.
Pic is of some we got last year.

Funnily enough after writing that his morning we had a hankering for some so went to the beach, there's a wee bucket load of them in the sink just now!

In New Zealand it's fairly common practice - Maori people have done it for years so it's a real cultural thing. There is most definitely trespass law here though. But so much land! A lot of foraging is done at the roadside - water cress etc. We have a triangle of land at the bottom of our drive that...

you know I thought about calling one of them Snowy!

I am lucky enough ( or not! !) to have a friend who lives near by who breeds chickens. DH and I spent this morning making a new house ( this is not a permanent home - it's just to introduce them to my original chickens and use as an additional house, broody house, sick bay etc! they'll be ranging fr...

You could keep her quiet for a couple of days if you feel she needs it. I have a broody house I use for all sorts of things! Broody house, sick bay etc. Chickens are very tough. Poor you , though, it's horrible when something like that happens. I have ducks an a friend took her young dog round to pl...

Millymollymandy wrote:I've just looked at the pics on your blog - oh the poor lonely drake glad you managed to catch them all!

he's fine, he has three other girlfriends, he just wants what he can't have

Jessiebean wrote:if I went to the coast and leaned out a bit and waved I could just about say hullo in person....have you got the 'orrible rain we do at the moment?

HI! It rained the day before yesterday and I was so happy as it's been really dry already this year. But today is warm and sunny.

We have one. It burns wood or coal - we use wood as it's lying around all over the farm. I'm not sure of the specifics of it as it was in the house when we bought it - and we're in NZ so probably the regulations are different. That being said we love it. For 5 years, until this winter it was also ou...

they're all big ish! New Hampshire reds and minorcas and silver campines. The campines even have their wings clipped as they can fly high! Ducks are all great! I did manage to catch them and they're all in a broody house now with mum. No losses so I am dead chuffed. They have grown so much already a...