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Helens Story Pt1
. EDITORS NOTE: Our Sister Helen, and four more of our Family (Joe, Brodie and their babies) recently survived a severe tropic storm, that was then followed by the hell that was Hurricane Irma – which was then quickly followed by 2 more Hurricanes, Jose and Maria. This is Part 1 of her story… 6 January 2018 To family, friends, & peeps who have watched out for me and helped me out: Hiya folks It’s 4 months to the day since Irma gave us a bit of a lashing and sent us scurrying for shelter, then on to other climes. The story has been long, starting of course a month…
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A New Year!
. Annnnnnd here we are in 2018!! Didn’t that last year just zoom by with ridiculous speed?!? Thats one of those things about getting older – the years definitely feel shorter… Its been a hot dry few weeks, and the gardens – and Us – are definitely feeling the unrelenting heat, which we still have a few months left of. Its been a ‘quiet’ start to the cyclone-season – touchwood! – with only WA having had one small one blow through so far. We’ve planted out a couple of climbers along the fence lines in the last few days – including some passionfruit vines that we grew from seed, from…
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Tizzied up
. Firstly – thank you for your patience while the website was having a bit of an overhaul – its appreciated. Secondly – you can now find all the pre Strigidae Farm posts (most of them are about our NZ travels) also on this website, so you won’t be having to keep up with both of them. If you haven’t already had a read them, you can start HERE, and there is a link at the end of each post, just above the section where you can leave comments. (see below) Speaking of comments – we’d really love it if you let us know what you think of a…