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Hiya Kiwi Woodgathering is well underway and my skills with a chainsaw are improving as I get through the pile. Truck is half full, so a good 2-3 trailer loads in there already. Not much splitting for the boys to do either, on account of me worrying about their welfare and all :geek: . It sounds lik...

My offering is one I have just adpoted as my siggie quote. I love it. It comes from a lovely book by a Kiwi author, Feild Candy, who sadly died in the 1980's. His book is called Every Living Thing and is a delightful book full of short stories, some only a paragraph long. All about his day to day en...

:mrgreen: @ Oharewood. TFF, good on you for having a go with it. I did a similar thing this year with some Mahoe berries. Mahoe is a tree native to NZ, and is loaded with tiny purple/black berries in summer. They are just a little smaller than elderberry and quite prolific on some trees. I had just ...

I guess this could be one of those never ending debates. I can certainly see arguements for both sides. Lots of it comes down to beauty being in the eye of the beholder and like already said, a hope that those involved are responsible types. What may appear to be a foresaken neglected area to some m...

What an interesting concept, and one I have never heard of before. Is this something that happens a lot somewhere? 'Where' is a first question that comes to mind, and how are they organised? Are the untended plots of land privately or govt owned? Sounds a bit like green thumb vigilantes or the land ...

Ooooo Kiwi - you might have found a seriously valuable resource in our area I think. O'harewood, we have chook houses, dog runs, glasshouses and possum'rabbit'hare excluding vege garden frames on our agenda, so be prepared. Your brain may get well picked in the near future. Another thing- having bee...

Here goes... What nickname did you have as a kid? Wednesday legs by kids at school - (whensdeygunnabreak), and Smiler by my dad. What did you want to be when you were "all growed up"? a butcher, but it just wasnt a 'nice' thing for a young lady to want to be so it never happened What do yo...

Many thanks for the warm welcomes. We are out on the Peninsular, Oharewood. Delightfully hermitised on 27 hectares, with gorse for miles balanced by a huge variety of native birds and outstanding views. With snow forecast to 400m for tonight, we might be lucky and wake up to some up the hill in the ...

Another newbie here from New Zealand, after being lead here by another Kiwi girl. Tonight is the first night that really heralds a change in the weather as we slide toward winter. Sad to see the warm days go, but at least we will have more cause to do some reading online. I'm off now to start some r...