a recipe for lucky dogs!

Yesterday, because it was sooooo hot, Miss Tilly and Dave the GR had their favourite hot day treat.
I froze a food container full of yummy chicken stock and placed chicken necks throughout. When the ice block is turned out they happily lick away for hours. Keeps them cool and content and I don’t [...]

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still burning

I’m guessing, but I think this photo is looking towards Paradise Falls
Photo taken in Cheshunt, NE Vic. Unnamed photographer, undated and sourced from the Herald Sun website.

Elvis, you are my HERO
Photo again sourced from Herald Sun website, water collection at Lake William Hovell where Miss Tilly Tuppence and Dave the [...]

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oh my goodness

Black Range fire: Army trucks have been sent to the Whitfield region.
(Fri 08 Dec, 11:18 AM) Photo by Rilla Maxton
oh it’s all just too sad – fires in NE vic. I find it so frustrating that I’m sitting here in my safe, comfy house while places that I love are burning. Gary [...]

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christmas is coming….

here is the first of my christmas decoration dolls! she has taken me sooooooo long to finish only because other things have come up like unscheduled work at the shop and simple pure laziness really!!! (oh and the beading around her skirt seems to have taken forever…)

these photos are not so good… you [...]

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the old blue truck

the old blue truck at “Hazelberry”
I’m sparing many of my thoughts this morning to our friends in the North East of Victoria who are all under extreme stress due to the current bushfires in the area. The above photo is of an old truck which sits against a tree at our friend Laurence’s [...]

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summer’s nearly here…

I took this the other evening, a couple of days ago, then had a fight with my blog and the posting part of my blog specifically so i couldn’t post it…. But how beautiful is this sunset? I was driving home from Mornington along the beach (my favourite way to go). [...]

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