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Flood Street Farmlet: December 2009

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Tuesday, 15 December 2009. Yes, we finally did it. Weekend before last we were able to complete the shed! With help from DW and DM the gutters went up, the roof went on, and and all the final bits and pieces were completed. I can't say it was fun, a day on a glaring and hot roof isn't the most pleasant way to spend time. It's strange, but now, at the end of it all I'm left feeling a bit empty and unsure of where to go next. Then again, maybe it's totally the opposite? So, where to now? Only 1 to 1.5 ...

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Flood Street Farmlet: Update October 2010

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Friday, 8 October 2010. How's that for a title? Yeah, I thought so too. We've had somewhere around 15 chicks over the last few weeks, 5 hatched out by a bantam, and I'm pretty sure we've got 10 left out of 12 or so eggs that hatched in the incubator. Not a bad start to the year, and we'll be trading some incubator time with another gentleman for a couple of chooks of different breeds. Here's Lilly, Lil, LillyPilly or #@&*! Little Lilly is pretty cute! 8 October 2010 at 8:39 pm. Hi Duck Herder,. Under The...

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Flood Street Farmlet: July 2010

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Thursday, 22 July 2010. Thoughts On The Glasshouse. At the moment the glasshouse is just, well, a house made of glass. Nothing in the way of thermal mass to store heat, and enough loose joints to make sure it doesn't quite work properly. Over the last few weeks, reading along with John Michael Greer's series of posts about Green Wizardry. I've toyed with a few ideas about how to make it more useful, or more correctly, how to make it do what I think it should do. Obviously heating the water with a solar p...

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Flood Street Farmlet: May 2011

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Thursday, 26 May 2011. But not yet delivered! The whole experience has certainly been a learning one. We've got a fair way to go to get back on track, but this is the first positive step in that direction, and it's exciting to finally be taking it. As much as we will miss the land, we wont miss the grief that went along with it. Links to this post. Wednesday, 4 May 2011. On the other hand, it's great for making friends and having a good time. We've managed to get out and about on the odd occasion too.

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Flood Street Farmlet: January 2010

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Wednesday, 13 January 2010. The summer holidays are over now, for me at least, though the kids are still bouncing off the walls for some time to come. In the rush of the festive season we didn't get up to much, though we had plenty of time to sit and consider our options in amongst the celebrations. So the first half of 2010 sees us struggling to cope with financial problems thanks to the good old tax office and a complete lack of good, timely, advice from the accountant, and our attempts to sell our pro...

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Flood Street Farmlet: August 2009

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Monday, 17 August 2009. Miniature Monolith and Rabbit Stew. House Yard Plan. Orchard to the right, with three vege yards for rotating, chooks digging in between. Combined glasshouse/chookhouse planned as well. The gateway in the pictures below is just above the three rectangular yards, on the left. Course of the new roadway looking roughly south from the front gate, the white tape is the fenceline and you can see the gateway-to-be down the end. The monolith and attendants. Model that had all it's parts&#...

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Flood Street Farmlet: Birds

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I've been meaning to compile a list of the various birds we see throughout the year at the farmlet, and here's as good a place as any to do so (if not better). I've organised it by season for now, but where we see the same bird throughout the year it may shift position. Some birds haven't been identified properly yet, hence the vagueness of the entry. Finches of some kind. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rhizomes - Hamlet Economy. Can Do Better - Final Energy Crisis. Under The Choko Tree. Plants For A Future.

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Flood Street Farmlet: Return To Sender

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Friday, 17 June 2011. Unfortunately the pending sale of the block of land did not proceed. I find it odd that people will commit to purchasing a real estate if they're not sure they can obtain the finances. Our potential purchaser jumped in, then tried to find the finance, and when that didn't work out, well, we get a situation like this one! What's worse is we also get a bill for the services of our solicitor every time someone leads us astray in this fashion. I've also turned my old bit of railway line...

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Flood Street Farmlet: October 2010

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Friday, 8 October 2010. How's that for a title? Yeah, I thought so too. We've had somewhere around 15 chicks over the last few weeks, 5 hatched out by a bantam, and I'm pretty sure we've got 10 left out of 12 or so eggs that hatched in the incubator. Not a bad start to the year, and we'll be trading some incubator time with another gentleman for a couple of chooks of different breeds. Here's Lilly, Lil, LillyPilly or #@&*! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rhizomes - Hamlet Economy. The Blo...