The greenhouse
Lesson learned: You shall not buy cheap stuff on Trademe. Honestly, I haven’t had such a fiddly job in years. Even without making too many…
Month: August 2015
Upcycling
Our builders got two extra pre-fabricated roof trusses that they didn’t need. We thought they would make perfect trellis for our grapes, and so we…
Stronghold against rabbits
Unsurprisingly rabbits don’t belong here. By here I don’t mean our property only, but New Zealand as a whole. Some early settlers 200 years ago…
The difference between a hen house and our house? – Windows
Until now our new home felt similar to a chicken coop. But fortunately we’ll not need to move close together on a roost to keep…
Green
Nah, our house isn’t gonna be green, at least not visually. Those green boards that the builders used to wrap the whole house are called RAB…
The roof is on!
Our house is now officially a house – with a roof on top. :)
More Mot scenery
Usually, there are one or two occasions for me daily to jump out of my chair, leave everything what I was doing and grab my…
That chicken story
Last week, when I was worried about one of our Sussex hens, she seemed to be eggbound? All good! She survived! And produced an extremely big >first<…
Winter, Part II
The last weeks were starting to be springly, with daffodils and other early flowers and bushes blooming all over the area. Just until yesterday, when…