I’m still recovering from todays endo and colonoscopy, they rummaged around quite a bit apparently. It certainly feels like they did and any food I put in is making a quicker than normal journey through. From the still slightly buzzed chat with the surgeon I have an exciting new regimen of drugs to look forward…

Well, maybe great is overselling it, how about “The lets turn this period of turmoil into something positive with the energy and resources we have available at the moment”. Now that may not roll off the tongue, but it is a probably a great deal more accurate. The elder child is leaving the nest and…

In an attempt to make progress at the cabin I have decided to throw something out the window. What I mainly ended up throwing out the window was shards of glass from the window I naively thought I could remove without damaging. It turns out I don’t really have the skills or patience for that…

Proper anxiety attacks are a funny old thing. Well I mean terrifying and confusing, but also funny in that kind of way where you realize that you are an idiot. I had a full on proper sweaty, pulse racing, chest clutching panic attack today. I literally thought I was dying and yet did nothing to…

Some days you just have to do the things. Ignore the obstacles and push forward. Today that thing that I needed to do was finally disposing of my father’s motorcycle bits and pieces. Bikes were a big part of my father’s life, he trained as a mechanic, he raced bikes, he rode them his entire…

There are some jobs that seem like bigger milestones than others. Yesterdays removal of the batteries from the old solar system felt like one of the big ones. The house was originally 100% off grid and then converted to mains electric much later. Which means the house had two completely separate wiring systems, both of…

Why? That was the only question I had as I uncovered the incredibly heavy electric train door that was being used as a roof brace in the goat house. Other questions that came to mind shortly afterwards were: Where the hell did he get this from? How did he lift a 60-70kilo door up there?…

A day of nothing but playing with fire, and by playing I mean being a responsible adult and taking all necessary precautions. So after pouring a bunch of kerosene into a stack of timber and hitting it with a blow torch, I spent the day throwing things in the fire. It’s two days before fire…

There are 100 days left in the year and there is a lot to do, but I am not sure exactly what. I got out of the habit of writing lists at the farm because when there is one big job a list seems sort of pointless. The job was clear out several 100 tonnes…

Sorry it’s been a while but I was sort of busy, or kinda sick. And a few times I was busy, sick, and not dealing. I’m still busy trying to turn the farm into a habitable space, while juggling budgets and side hustles to pay for all those expensive materials required to build stuff. Who…