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…

In fact I used to do this regularly, and by this I mean blog, or journal, or vent great big dollops of words everywhere. I’m not sure why I stopped but I suspect it was a whole pile of things stapled together. Life got complicated, children got complicated, my physical health got very complicated, my…