tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60878116689209903022024-03-06T12:59:29.306+11:00Nomad MotherHome is where the heart isNomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-81762940556631764172010-05-19T15:00:00.004+10:002010-05-19T15:07:56.139+10:00Introducing Mairead An!Here is our wee girl! So happy to have her here with us, she was born beautifully in the water April 30 after a very short, sharp labour! Ro has been wonderful with her, tries to feed her his brocolli and informs me she needs milk when she pokes out her tongue. We are happily tucked up in the yurt as the weather turns autumn and frost sparkles on our roof in the morning sun...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsNRgNU-jnGIf3Sd34Wax5CLGpdsB5f4P_stErB264XqBaG4ml2VxevVyDbXAM37ptbcr4AUvlOGJuUQfy8cZ-QVmJg4ll9_RbiDS92Y7-o6IHxTPj9nV7NGK1q7QeSnKozLBDxCmzpRw/s1600/11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsNRgNU-jnGIf3Sd34Wax5CLGpdsB5f4P_stErB264XqBaG4ml2VxevVyDbXAM37ptbcr4AUvlOGJuUQfy8cZ-QVmJg4ll9_RbiDS92Y7-o6IHxTPj9nV7NGK1q7QeSnKozLBDxCmzpRw/s400/11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472842362623797138" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYGFCHph4rnsYXaZXJHx8GQy3aZmwBp_F2I4TfaW0bB9ud-iF_arw6TF9r0_6SAM_soRTJJQG-boYtCIKwFv45ZGzdYrS7gF6vRyH8214iT9UTmD89NLvMIZq97_FHz5b59A-iYsIYOG4/s1600/6+Mairead+and+Ro.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYGFCHph4rnsYXaZXJHx8GQy3aZmwBp_F2I4TfaW0bB9ud-iF_arw6TF9r0_6SAM_soRTJJQG-boYtCIKwFv45ZGzdYrS7gF6vRyH8214iT9UTmD89NLvMIZq97_FHz5b59A-iYsIYOG4/s400/6+Mairead+and+Ro.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472842352828982946" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8VAVoKxCy3x3b5SmabOhif-iYgm9jAgcM1cCUmQS638gARyNmqUSm7DbqpZmxgMLaER52iTCLHmgiSJwpR5rd6r6rmuO43ffaynWqnkbMudBSiJkaGzzbYQFfXLQWvL-VI4rCtE2HFS4/s1600/fs+Mairead+May+10+074.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8VAVoKxCy3x3b5SmabOhif-iYgm9jAgcM1cCUmQS638gARyNmqUSm7DbqpZmxgMLaER52iTCLHmgiSJwpR5rd6r6rmuO43ffaynWqnkbMudBSiJkaGzzbYQFfXLQWvL-VI4rCtE2HFS4/s400/fs+Mairead+May+10+074.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472842339213733058" /></a>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-64274106678097927342010-03-29T13:38:00.005+11:002010-03-29T13:58:17.824+11:00A wee turtle caveThe other morning Cam found a wee baby turtle tumbled into the grease-trap pit (part of the greywater reed bed system, more on that anon), and duly plopped it in the dam. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzStGNVH7fnj765UwVTLDyGakMWj32pwHQc97GQoJzkyMHmjDfv-m8hsf5ixFJQ69yKZk3CSTuYsAvx3N1D80QvyLnfXvmwElNbF0mXnW5cpVEzpwAt4FisX1LRUvrY0SOArcsiOO0D4M/s1600/DSCN1427.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzStGNVH7fnj765UwVTLDyGakMWj32pwHQc97GQoJzkyMHmjDfv-m8hsf5ixFJQ69yKZk3CSTuYsAvx3N1D80QvyLnfXvmwElNbF0mXnW5cpVEzpwAt4FisX1LRUvrY0SOArcsiOO0D4M/s400/DSCN1427.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453880502604966818" /></a><br /><br /><br />Then a few days later our Canadian woofers found another one, also in the pit! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHd63hK9Jzm7LzDc8taZ2eEj50B_8mofGF0lIsF2sGzKc25S-m_5AkCG7rkCR55wo_vs47RCN-3z23gvRQweRts5H5IItRZKUz7TwrFN7p6uaUkVHBbL-oaeMW42SfN3FRYl9ktm4SiA/s1600/DSCN1426.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUHd63hK9Jzm7LzDc8taZ2eEj50B_8mofGF0lIsF2sGzKc25S-m_5AkCG7rkCR55wo_vs47RCN-3z23gvRQweRts5H5IItRZKUz7TwrFN7p6uaUkVHBbL-oaeMW42SfN3FRYl9ktm4SiA/s400/DSCN1426.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453880508762100994" /></a><br /><br />That afternoon we spotted some pieces of soft shell in a tiny cave broken open in the wall of the trench to the grease-pit, the pieces of about six or so eggs and in one the dried fragile leather of a small turtle’s shell, a little one who didn't make it to the water.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8SD-O386vN4w9UvLZHnQcV91N_UdBPaM3D9E9DLbEwIWDttE3mxLURe8EbbUYDkNEiDNDcGxay_f_BQjdO2wrSuUe3PKrb3jz0JfgAEyYXT2KXuXb7d1DHhxnciCbj_p5H80rrL1jVLs/s1600/DSCN1451.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8SD-O386vN4w9UvLZHnQcV91N_UdBPaM3D9E9DLbEwIWDttE3mxLURe8EbbUYDkNEiDNDcGxay_f_BQjdO2wrSuUe3PKrb3jz0JfgAEyYXT2KXuXb7d1DHhxnciCbj_p5H80rrL1jVLs/s400/DSCN1451.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453880488604943122" /></a><br /><br />(P.S. Still getting my head around new Mac - no idea why this photo is coming in sideways?! If you would all obligingly turn your heads onto your left shoulders you will see the soft bits of shell in the foreground!)Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-76684935967947757242010-02-22T09:29:00.000+11:002010-02-22T09:29:52.227+11:00Settled, truly in yurtish, nomad styleHello everyone!!! Apologies for the long radio silence, we've been madly on the road and the internet hasn't been handy, but - finally, and in what style! - we are settled again and able to roam here once more (albeit for the next little while on a friend's computer up the driveway a little way)....We have come to <a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.mcnf.com.au/">Mulloon Creek Natural Farm</a>; a couple of Saturdays ago we unpacked a yurt from a box and built it, et voila! Stunning views, a dam out the window to jump in on hot days, a cow to share the milking of, and a huge farm out the door for Cam to run around doing keyline design and holistic management and natural sequence farming, etc etc! One of the etc's being to teach permaculture and all of the above through the Mulloon Institute, which aims to go beyond teaching and sharing about sustainability practices (from an urban to broadacre scale) towards regeneration and restoration of damaged landscapes. Woohoo!<br /><br />Meanwhile I shall be growing our new baby along with all the fruit, vegies, berries, nuts, herbs and spices that could be needed by the eight families who live on site; the farm is several thousand hectares straddling the Dividing Range and produces free-range organic and biodynamic pastured eggs and beef. All in all, I feel like I'm in Heaven! I promise to be back soon with some photos...Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-88617867540377855822009-10-23T10:43:00.002+11:002009-11-03T08:13:01.551+11:00Spring fertility<p class="Jessie"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sneezing, itching, eyes streaming – wandering the garden like a small walking storm system, watering hankies, thinking how marvellous it is my body can intercept and register so well all this fertility of the plants!</span><br /></p><p class="Jessie"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Jessie"><o:p> </o:p></p><!--EndFragment-->Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-55370784749929543132009-10-01T20:57:00.002+10:002009-11-03T08:12:37.404+11:00Spring is sprung!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here's Ro and Cam preparing the terrace beds ready for their spring planting. Many little seedlings are sprouting in trays in the greenhouse, corn and tomatoes and capsicums and pumpkins, cucumbers and many other delicious things....</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ro aerating the soil with the very fine Gundaroo tiller:</span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </div><p align="center"></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnw3dPhhhBAo7m1vHimU9hrh30THB6SC-YrjhrpHpvNXz80RiwWirr8bRczxSEutEHDdCAl8XHGgfkh7JVN-aWYyPfrBt0UMEs4-MZ3KHxIxdKV5yReCfIjdQYLhWgZVl2DO1aeZuamyQ/s1600-h/P1030803.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395594208230080642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnw3dPhhhBAo7m1vHimU9hrh30THB6SC-YrjhrpHpvNXz80RiwWirr8bRczxSEutEHDdCAl8XHGgfkh7JVN-aWYyPfrBt0UMEs4-MZ3KHxIxdKV5yReCfIjdQYLhWgZVl2DO1aeZuamyQ/s400/P1030803.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTD15Wa1jszk9uwLqi7jpSBUAIF9aFLkHSLcXLq9q0p2zJUIHYjcyprELDYhb1FO5ym_2ZQlDmf9DXFvhrq7Y1e3-JK5PJZAMpbr8LyaMy0MSgoteWRGM73ad2nWKeOviJW2KAoz6_QSA/s1600-h/P1030809.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395594188999823682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTD15Wa1jszk9uwLqi7jpSBUAIF9aFLkHSLcXLq9q0p2zJUIHYjcyprELDYhb1FO5ym_2ZQlDmf9DXFvhrq7Y1e3-JK5PJZAMpbr8LyaMy0MSgoteWRGM73ad2nWKeOviJW2KAoz6_QSA/s400/P1030809.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Putting straw out over the slashed green manure crop (oats and broad beans) to keep the carbon in the soil:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEBlKYjJ95eRZ35_RzJivx9Ai6B443_BkAiHrIqJ-oVQtBZB43jKNVwzmwB1ZsycWmCVARJeumGjJCIXmtaWOKnfNd2Tr4JDAPH2s4TTFAqSABWbuQOY6rAi_1k05i-FoXj74uQS22RXw/s1600-h/P1030814.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395593632548856706" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNTQCazvctgZ9JB7Ctj6zhAqyvipzg4cKTMu6PAASS-WN-UxOltLj6UdU2jbion3HPrUJO02fpstApwMRBbR5-uN8XDxyzt7xLDtjjCPHoxfUeC1ArLy4VolPHh02Vv-X6tZQHc4T_r4Q/s400/P1030820.JPG" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvSCVhIHqxfUng3SNFA1PjpyITOS4iYtzKtHobGUDE5JmnMOvBNXLr9A_FrSGh0fA64xWOsW-CtYWWE7c-e9TMccCa4bk_1f5iZqG-FWTddO7DcT7fVhTS8t-LEKTATk1uRDiChM05T-U/s1600-h/P1030824.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395593618972251378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvSCVhIHqxfUng3SNFA1PjpyITOS4iYtzKtHobGUDE5JmnMOvBNXLr9A_FrSGh0fA64xWOsW-CtYWWE7c-e9TMccCa4bk_1f5iZqG-FWTddO7DcT7fVhTS8t-LEKTATk1uRDiChM05T-U/s400/P1030824.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Ready to go!</span></p><p align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwe2tHiEPR2khG0s3UnvTvfS8O_mU-81HG0nHtccLQWuOSSCxZ_MH2HyBcqrWy_RIeI8M2pzFQq74BAMO9Dfg0wpN4wNpCAZVIW4eBcU_8tKDxe8gsEsUXlQDHznArby7mObS6KsqKgxs/s1600-h/P1030863.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395593613488737666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwe2tHiEPR2khG0s3UnvTvfS8O_mU-81HG0nHtccLQWuOSSCxZ_MH2HyBcqrWy_RIeI8M2pzFQq74BAMO9Dfg0wpN4wNpCAZVIW4eBcU_8tKDxe8gsEsUXlQDHznArby7mObS6KsqKgxs/s400/P1030863.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /></p>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-4994344319988592992009-09-30T11:55:00.001+10:002009-11-03T08:07:43.240+11:00Herb harvest<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Cam and Yarrow collecting calendula flowers to dry for tea.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii-77Gp9ZcO_MdPw9tRg62wtf-UqQm4x5vSytqDxKe0XEY8Ko7ParcaHn6Awqj7Aj3eZfmSL-QZAjlGqCtCkYaFqbVYGhzkFpI7DK9-BF8MW72UxOld4ksHE0lPxbkdJFE64-GxxZZvNc/s1600-h/P1030798.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395592775396720482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii-77Gp9ZcO_MdPw9tRg62wtf-UqQm4x5vSytqDxKe0XEY8Ko7ParcaHn6Awqj7Aj3eZfmSL-QZAjlGqCtCkYaFqbVYGhzkFpI7DK9-BF8MW72UxOld4ksHE0lPxbkdJFE64-GxxZZvNc/s400/P1030798.JPG" border="0" /></a>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-26618014005189076312009-09-19T19:49:00.001+10:002009-11-03T08:03:04.871+11:00Spawning frogs<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">One of our lovely students has given us some eggs from her established pond to hatch frogs into ours. I've slopped them in among the water plants and fingers crossed they make it through to frog-hood!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQxWc8D1OS1rQAfFP5jVwk2Jlhsuhv0Ju4x03GSKXZYukgb7yguahB-s-jRcdJvxh5CWvLpN5_2B0F1CJqG1_5VcKa1Uwey6rUyYqJlLIojYMnpv6_hZ34OMO3w7VsvFrddA2sQeteSM/s1600-h/P1030738.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395591694399961186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQxWc8D1OS1rQAfFP5jVwk2Jlhsuhv0Ju4x03GSKXZYukgb7yguahB-s-jRcdJvxh5CWvLpN5_2B0F1CJqG1_5VcKa1Uwey6rUyYqJlLIojYMnpv6_hZ34OMO3w7VsvFrddA2sQeteSM/s400/P1030738.JPG" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNq1yA1X4Cyex1ZuPmEyKMvD1Qp0aC0Wj3gHEGP5A35rhSBmj_gppiqbWKLcl1Eqdp-I-S4zSR3xOg-4Ts7Hngi2JK00CGDv9_U3V8TBH3fyq3X8UDnioUyzaVINbPZkXop9MhGG_ml8/s1600-h/P1030740.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395591685388467378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNq1yA1X4Cyex1ZuPmEyKMvD1Qp0aC0Wj3gHEGP5A35rhSBmj_gppiqbWKLcl1Eqdp-I-S4zSR3xOg-4Ts7Hngi2JK00CGDv9_U3V8TBH3fyq3X8UDnioUyzaVINbPZkXop9MhGG_ml8/s400/P1030740.JPG" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT7XiqwLOLbW4L3b6HiPl_lgmw5GF4N8n8ijPR3TSagirs94i9hXbC6r5N_osGb6UmiI7JjD5HEUHdZi50UG816gLfYKeSu_X0gg6tW47xT4lcXzL21t8KcAXtDAY6b1IytzP3hRYCYt0/s1600-h/P1030742.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395591675458601714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT7XiqwLOLbW4L3b6HiPl_lgmw5GF4N8n8ijPR3TSagirs94i9hXbC6r5N_osGb6UmiI7JjD5HEUHdZi50UG816gLfYKeSu_X0gg6tW47xT4lcXzL21t8KcAXtDAY6b1IytzP3hRYCYt0/s400/P1030742.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Go well, wee froglets!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></p></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXtkxpdxPmA1W1bT33Zuk5a2f0DJpzfOagKFHrylN_ldzXahSJJ4mUV6jX9KFS8fhkmg18lrcbyAqoEqTRFFmdG2y49dmo1KT5Ejn2XH13ytGprVS7B-tk0kFdBc5_osSMSZTBHdo8Pc0/s1600-h/P1030741.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395591670441248098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXtkxpdxPmA1W1bT33Zuk5a2f0DJpzfOagKFHrylN_ldzXahSJJ4mUV6jX9KFS8fhkmg18lrcbyAqoEqTRFFmdG2y49dmo1KT5Ejn2XH13ytGprVS7B-tk0kFdBc5_osSMSZTBHdo8Pc0/s400/P1030741.JPG" border="0" /></a>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-65964871245821289152009-09-03T11:33:00.002+10:002009-11-03T07:50:15.807+11:00Yarrow puts foot in mouth<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzpGB1dSmyJdca2feKbQSzBOX4fWEQmxMZPOfAdf5jBqF9tm8CF5cCuBIjGCraebuqaX2y7SbGuDdkF8uQZUH-A50ccKOM4tVbR03bRtGyagH8ECU9SvxtsYau0N9sSBPHDfhQytJWx08/s1600-h/P1030697.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395587469869547954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzpGB1dSmyJdca2feKbQSzBOX4fWEQmxMZPOfAdf5jBqF9tm8CF5cCuBIjGCraebuqaX2y7SbGuDdkF8uQZUH-A50ccKOM4tVbR03bRtGyagH8ECU9SvxtsYau0N9sSBPHDfhQytJWx08/s400/P1030697.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih62VJl9KbF7osz-JTYaz1ww9hVE1cH8xj8YGMyH4J_e2pmFuH6IMA059hHGrMwx1jiWAy0o6H9yEJJyKIlv8QHGWt3WTUGz3gyuGu7TtSWZjl9z73RncLBvV-zz_n_OQtCJ3WA5j6p3Q/s1600-h/P1030698.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395587463578435458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih62VJl9KbF7osz-JTYaz1ww9hVE1cH8xj8YGMyH4J_e2pmFuH6IMA059hHGrMwx1jiWAy0o6H9yEJJyKIlv8QHGWt3WTUGz3gyuGu7TtSWZjl9z73RncLBvV-zz_n_OQtCJ3WA5j6p3Q/s400/P1030698.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfMMZz0aaihmS28RX2xpjcEd5yqybLT7PhjyFa_6PzYFeaXsIbKgntS_5-3i224-Tnp5vM_fcqHNSrEAY3duh-sK836V8EhTexLB2mN21mg6bIRFcDci0qHV129YUq7q7zFSFx3fp-A8/s1600-h/P1030700.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395587463334168370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfMMZz0aaihmS28RX2xpjcEd5yqybLT7PhjyFa_6PzYFeaXsIbKgntS_5-3i224-Tnp5vM_fcqHNSrEAY3duh-sK836V8EhTexLB2mN21mg6bIRFcDci0qHV129YUq7q7zFSFx3fp-A8/s400/P1030700.jpg" border="0" /></a>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-49926636180662786972009-09-02T20:16:00.009+10:002009-11-03T07:49:01.478+11:00Fox-proof fencing to keep chickens safe<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Cam did a design at the start of the year for a couple in Eltham who are mad-keen bottlers and preservers, whenever they go on trips they scour all the little local op shops for forgotten boxes of Fowler's preserving jars... </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They wanted a large orchard plum-full of all sorts of delicious fruit, as well as vegies and chickens and drought-proofing for the whole place, fire-proofing etc. Ro and I came along for the day as Cam took his students from the permaculture diploma course at Eltham College to do some prac about fencing and irrigation at the property. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here's Cam laying out a "skirt" of chicken wire at the bottom of the fence, which will be buried, so foxes can't dig under the fence into the orchard, where the chooks will be roaming and feasting on fallen fruit and insects, and dropping poo as fertiliser:</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmILZzvGJVd9RFZF4aSd9uTEHXxFIYqYTaiNCXWibLPzRmQVtF14FIpAE8Gt1pFPj07cO0oMBRzF1zCE15PIEhO6NFiCpgpK_O3YERUO2QXVwZ1qw_Y_-oHpe1XqhXOzInEyvuRPkdoQQ/s1600-h/P1030665.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395583637532757234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmILZzvGJVd9RFZF4aSd9uTEHXxFIYqYTaiNCXWibLPzRmQVtF14FIpAE8Gt1pFPj07cO0oMBRzF1zCE15PIEhO6NFiCpgpK_O3YERUO2QXVwZ1qw_Y_-oHpe1XqhXOzInEyvuRPkdoQQ/s400/P1030665.JPG" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The top of the fence is angled out, and deliberately loose, so foxes can't climb over it:</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPE8tn_mAoofB341fwIjdbSKGwdGdTtncEhhE6l4yqIQl_9OQRsXx_CBaONGiWBChM9YVlH5D_Xk3ahZ1ANj5HZFTMHmYtydR2_YoFtSy2d5nxd-rGN__oizz-JTvCCs7VbB9qqu_3rU0/s1600-h/P1030668.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395583478743769378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPE8tn_mAoofB341fwIjdbSKGwdGdTtncEhhE6l4yqIQl_9OQRsXx_CBaONGiWBChM9YVlH5D_Xk3ahZ1ANj5HZFTMHmYtydR2_YoFtSy2d5nxd-rGN__oizz-JTvCCs7VbB9qqu_3rU0/s400/P1030668.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The skirt being buried:<br /></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgre0NHJRM_ZBL_Moi0lbGmOJUA_QcT2f-ukbPPKp-X1aCbYshLC7rqnNvmqT9UCHkSDy8jn1s5tU5xPemcKhQo_1f74cWDh-gZanSZRLgTaZgjfkNNlyRRLI88lDm_AL5xYufvz2oOdbw/s1600-h/P1030673.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395583473672824498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgre0NHJRM_ZBL_Moi0lbGmOJUA_QcT2f-ukbPPKp-X1aCbYshLC7rqnNvmqT9UCHkSDy8jn1s5tU5xPemcKhQo_1f74cWDh-gZanSZRLgTaZgjfkNNlyRRLI88lDm_AL5xYufvz2oOdbw/s400/P1030673.JPG" border="0" /></a> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13;"><br /></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The students tacking the fence to the poles (orchard swales in background): </span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEd32IrAnoEZ8X5oU21cdlr8-yVvr8BkzEZ6mIgLDQH8sPvhsQQ_P5qY1kxezf7Om2JkmMNSf7g10D2kj6KKMZaNvNBG4snuSz8l45XzZD91BjRb0YRZjNrufmwxVhg-Rqkkdw6yH3jGo/s1600-h/P1030676.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395583470694500418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEd32IrAnoEZ8X5oU21cdlr8-yVvr8BkzEZ6mIgLDQH8sPvhsQQ_P5qY1kxezf7Om2JkmMNSf7g10D2kj6KKMZaNvNBG4snuSz8l45XzZD91BjRb0YRZjNrufmwxVhg-Rqkkdw6yH3jGo/s400/P1030676.JPG" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Meanwhile, Yarrow just adjusting the mirror and getting ready to drive us home at the end of the day:</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0TCvm-2ZajztFcB_bb4DCbMYEwiL9vL-m6FwXehxyosK32NE0Bg5K_icDXVrRszLdX9X1TQrwUibtNmK1dp2s6qLLqV0rLK99oZ4KvXa8BYPaP5u3KsABX6eNQg3hWG5Tk-WYQdbaA0/s1600-h/P1030680.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395583464763950498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0TCvm-2ZajztFcB_bb4DCbMYEwiL9vL-m6FwXehxyosK32NE0Bg5K_icDXVrRszLdX9X1TQrwUibtNmK1dp2s6qLLqV0rLK99oZ4KvXa8BYPaP5u3KsABX6eNQg3hWG5Tk-WYQdbaA0/s400/P1030680.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEB0msm_LKjeSMKvuiApQXOkNSDMP1w_pwJFYqaAOlV5Yf6DfhE4ckWttcfRqrkQHEZQQVBoIUR1gObxQI58c-LqzVnuqhuli2sn_i8jkERFpvzVovR4HpSryMa7EiBl0ciouUAQT-Qi8/s1600-h/P1030681.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395583459730509634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEB0msm_LKjeSMKvuiApQXOkNSDMP1w_pwJFYqaAOlV5Yf6DfhE4ckWttcfRqrkQHEZQQVBoIUR1gObxQI58c-LqzVnuqhuli2sn_i8jkERFpvzVovR4HpSryMa7EiBl0ciouUAQT-Qi8/s400/P1030681.jpg" border="0" /></a>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-28687093972204884162009-09-01T20:42:00.002+10:002009-09-01T20:46:48.491+10:00Tree lingering<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Out walking with Ro and we came across this tree, for all the world like it had its bark knickers caught in its bottom! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">But stunningly beautiful, even as it made me smile.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Gfrr-wowOOs2ltAJ8BHyTnoXwwfGCQeJAPNssBQThfJi5tNDQeBY1zCQsdUjTp0Wn2yRMbQnIh4qoUG4pGkFFrO4inubqdugoW82XWnsMPepkrGFz90hsFbVQ5GpQA154_RDZS6WfoI/s1600-h/P1030650.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Gfrr-wowOOs2ltAJ8BHyTnoXwwfGCQeJAPNssBQThfJi5tNDQeBY1zCQsdUjTp0Wn2yRMbQnIh4qoUG4pGkFFrO4inubqdugoW82XWnsMPepkrGFz90hsFbVQ5GpQA154_RDZS6WfoI/s400/P1030650.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376447834093931554" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbdIjtc5pl3jP4yy3hoYq2IgJeV4OtY6fhaydxFk1OpzNBPvu7ITGIK9uG3jcpfEtjjrBNlQ8I_9wSHJCducKPP6qjGEA-SPPzDQh1Oew3v7UQw4ymR8VuRVOKPWLvcwQg_eR52fTV_u0/s1600-h/P1030644.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbdIjtc5pl3jP4yy3hoYq2IgJeV4OtY6fhaydxFk1OpzNBPvu7ITGIK9uG3jcpfEtjjrBNlQ8I_9wSHJCducKPP6qjGEA-SPPzDQh1Oew3v7UQw4ymR8VuRVOKPWLvcwQg_eR52fTV_u0/s400/P1030644.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376447826332562370" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXPoMpjWCFJV4MAau-5mq8ebWhaaWwk7vKUaLs9W5lhlim-mn822WFacrUegoVHtRFTzI69djtpMNfBsMaGkDcYxcIEz1T0ziMEnio8RWgGwGWNCTFOQBgcAe9TSE9zA4ztYfcoeJZm-U/s1600-h/P1030648.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXPoMpjWCFJV4MAau-5mq8ebWhaaWwk7vKUaLs9W5lhlim-mn822WFacrUegoVHtRFTzI69djtpMNfBsMaGkDcYxcIEz1T0ziMEnio8RWgGwGWNCTFOQBgcAe9TSE9zA4ztYfcoeJZm-U/s400/P1030648.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376447820562829266" /></a>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-91545727045194928492009-08-30T16:13:00.001+10:002009-09-01T20:49:39.164+10:00Ro's first birthday<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHsPgC2zmt1YUF7Bvl5xQCH3pkXsqQsWAhr0H2Ean_q-5Sq-0NMUlTLYQS_GhoBjX0vIhRqE64wzrhJ7ZO78cl26tsBDZuEiNWj9g4mFPBoDP-8mnoS9R3VmMZpeuQNndy6qTbWoFsQ1A/s1600-h/March+to+July+2008+187.jpg"></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It was Ro's first birthday just a little bit ago, and I was on midwifery placement caring for women in labour, thinking, "This time last year I was in Samoa doing this..."</span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wow.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">...woke up just before dawn in the glowing white box of our mozzie net in the moonlight, full moon out the window, with the first pains just starting quietly, and our little man was born in our bedroom with two local midwives, five incredible hours later. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-nbDdmo8cfQN_VvVkiLalavqURlikp-E7I9SZ5xKTfp5qTXCtIs0XcYZDrGeAyqtq1qurEe7mW0gElAxOCMtFdOeIlT3W41Qoh9jz0xkd5jTM0Qpokml_Jem4-O0KqJaiq97k0c8xNog/s1600-h/March+to+July+2008+213.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguH2RQ6CN74oEovfBTa-Ac_JMhjiO3vbJKxWU2E4bfc0fzU7AVHi83pVPAW3CIDSHDYRLW4YJrRaZKx2SCRsaIQmZpbeoX-5Ho8uBeLkwchIhXmB3k2IN6XfvacOzxpXTiAl2CYrbXhdQ/s320/March+to+July+2008+270.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370892735330642226" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBtF7vqysSGJY3RZd2-J-rssC89M4_2-8DUJaGrrc0vyxj1b_ok74wsd5QpoLT7bAsRl5bCpmtf7FJzDPVmMLrcuFIlmMaINp6Ump-5Ea4NhZTFrjYN8s0p-BedjkZe1zI_q25QmzKrLo/s400/March+to+July+2008+259.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376446336132555266" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And now that small, naked and slippery little fella, so freshly new - but surely somehow always here too! - is one! And I've been a Mum, and Cam a Dad, four seasons. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wow. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFy7uZ6xjAtHksgTvVEl_GKpRBu9AT8COgni6Ydvp2-QIvxdELkr8EgfOfkbI_ePAoIQmAysqTQCSEkYUlTJWyFMXuiXBdqydLNw-x1GfDJ-4OovW2kLbI-IiCqgzc6u0xAMjM0YcQMhg/s400/P1030526.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364132804511759106" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UcwlmaiSi0a6dNIhTMtTf81XrBisG1QTc410EKGVPiAKbaJ2-PI9c-6T6H23SYZWR2fS4dTU41sWwyl-r6P6Z1Bi9p05GAVIESe86Lk0DtmxeKdjCKB0kTq90RO6UKfd5EjFELqkTLo/s1600-h/P1030537.jpg"></a><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhHX94P7sY00Nmr2-PijbAOOrLknW4Bd1ATto9b9sx1spadpwTp3l43ZKPP90J3Q8wOSWBs1IRbBjeFBPHPOi7UJ5D1auW17t6P2SR6COL0NgtQIvI79w7ccX6QImzIlczNrJa93aySs/s1600-h/P1030531.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhHX94P7sY00Nmr2-PijbAOOrLknW4Bd1ATto9b9sx1spadpwTp3l43ZKPP90J3Q8wOSWBs1IRbBjeFBPHPOi7UJ5D1auW17t6P2SR6COL0NgtQIvI79w7ccX6QImzIlczNrJa93aySs/s400/P1030531.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364132812993461762" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UcwlmaiSi0a6dNIhTMtTf81XrBisG1QTc410EKGVPiAKbaJ2-PI9c-6T6H23SYZWR2fS4dTU41sWwyl-r6P6Z1Bi9p05GAVIESe86Lk0DtmxeKdjCKB0kTq90RO6UKfd5EjFELqkTLo/s400/P1030537.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364132816830535426" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFy7uZ6xjAtHksgTvVEl_GKpRBu9AT8COgni6Ydvp2-QIvxdELkr8EgfOfkbI_ePAoIQmAysqTQCSEkYUlTJWyFMXuiXBdqydLNw-x1GfDJ-4OovW2kLbI-IiCqgzc6u0xAMjM0YcQMhg/s1600-h/P1030526.jpg"></a></span><br /></div></div></div></div>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-35436883331963368902009-08-26T14:50:00.006+10:002009-09-01T20:34:27.906+10:00Walkabout at the coast<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mum came down to help us out while I'm on a midwifery placement at hospital. We went down south for a wander in the rainforest and played on a play-ship, washed up on the beach...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3KTJejAvC3k7N9BZHfz8gVCONEGqFAP4TxXc9oKbmw56O1qr8D-pWQt0l-o2RkfZMQBuXTsw4cVF76ZdPRJdwh1KtksJeP70iNjMpoL8jq4vjOYxx7HUCJiRg-tcArFu9eBpEl9O4x0/s1600-h/P1030353.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3KTJejAvC3k7N9BZHfz8gVCONEGqFAP4TxXc9oKbmw56O1qr8D-pWQt0l-o2RkfZMQBuXTsw4cVF76ZdPRJdwh1KtksJeP70iNjMpoL8jq4vjOYxx7HUCJiRg-tcArFu9eBpEl9O4x0/s400/P1030353.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376444591350324450" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0z6yTxM8YWaul_PdhIrK2IslGw8J6IJ2mw9kiFTQivsWZkdy3Nq2JCapE0dOMWJPuag7rAl3v8fmQe63yK_4tSX5UtZr7eYx1rwFxu-8PmD3J0u-0_-kDmx7wkbVhG1dPg_pqmVWR0cs/s1600-h/P1030329.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0z6yTxM8YWaul_PdhIrK2IslGw8J6IJ2mw9kiFTQivsWZkdy3Nq2JCapE0dOMWJPuag7rAl3v8fmQe63yK_4tSX5UtZr7eYx1rwFxu-8PmD3J0u-0_-kDmx7wkbVhG1dPg_pqmVWR0cs/s400/P1030329.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376444579808578882" style="display: block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXiOkTp1e7W33fYPZZS0IC0-FQAuYNSJnxhXdsrG5BKgPQjIrdSZDVmgxX8T0iGzSH7SqRUdctqx1B83Ttx6Q2s85GDYz60MDrEesnOE8q8yVJ0Q-NHk21CztqIQ3OFEx7HmQd1mJjdgE/s400/P1030395.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376444612067360514" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhPHk9gcST-TVOuw9npj_KQq-iuSxERcPipHpRPeEFaV9ZLMO2SybV2xFKum5umXCk9SVF-WH9ifJE541prLrKn-wGPnEiCNrYiirRHmLtGH2epNNj9uxwd0J1sTYERaEl5pYHCN7wDc/s1600-h/P1030392.JPG"></a><br /></span>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-69937568237373135442009-08-17T14:45:00.000+10:002009-08-26T14:50:12.408+10:00Harvesting winter spuds<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Our neighbour above us on our hill here, who has been gardening his patch for 20 years and every inch is growing an edible something, told us we can grow potatoes right through winter. So we have, and here are Cam and Ro harvesting one patch (we still have several more around the garden to go).</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJbc0c3mmaGJA2z-XeafoZw6ZtbbuyWAEEwullmPgfRY8sDtnXBKg2stuuGOQK6qV4LWjlXrFvJqpWP_jiRL9r3ZZQ09ej3dQfZ1Amc4mAp4rqeMOdJumsUZw9-jvWaWuSbkuumygaw0U/s1600-h/P1030566.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJbc0c3mmaGJA2z-XeafoZw6ZtbbuyWAEEwullmPgfRY8sDtnXBKg2stuuGOQK6qV4LWjlXrFvJqpWP_jiRL9r3ZZQ09ej3dQfZ1Amc4mAp4rqeMOdJumsUZw9-jvWaWuSbkuumygaw0U/s400/P1030566.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374129420833364962" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIIFjc5csX9hOgNXkdy3lQ3pQxF27HMvoMuRu8TzBqOqKdqQ3TVmGCZsKhawOomkNOt9aKAWrsncnparyhCDBZGaUZzihJ4uL7t7327RcMWhhbGQLvMZ4uVD6xGnMSHiR04XfLM3sMcj4/s1600-h/P1030569.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIIFjc5csX9hOgNXkdy3lQ3pQxF27HMvoMuRu8TzBqOqKdqQ3TVmGCZsKhawOomkNOt9aKAWrsncnparyhCDBZGaUZzihJ4uL7t7327RcMWhhbGQLvMZ4uVD6xGnMSHiR04XfLM3sMcj4/s400/P1030569.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374129413922802562" /></a>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-35096087108972126732009-08-16T14:33:00.000+10:002009-08-26T14:45:07.437+10:00The joy of rich old books<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was thrilled when Cam found 'Dinotopia' by James Gurney the other day at a secondhand bookshop. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I used to love his beautiful paintings of a magical island, surrounded by treacherous reefs, where dolphins guided shipwrecked humans to the shore... And there, in desert and mountain top, swamp and forest, in a city carved out of rock in the middle of a huge crashing waterfall, dinosaurs and humans lived in harmony together, sharing the wisdom of the old, old reptiles with the skills of the humans and creating together a vibrant and joyful life. <br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq01PmVmysP_j_sQU7vfLN6_7yBpF7g-ExEytH1Buf45KGzozTAJujISxaYsuYQro9YF50iGoYoqS2sR72ChvAXAaUokVXQuKopmHhj6h0RcCr-3Hpeoiy5Qegm2aTuuo0FaYeZzO2pkg/s1600-h/P1030623.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq01PmVmysP_j_sQU7vfLN6_7yBpF7g-ExEytH1Buf45KGzozTAJujISxaYsuYQro9YF50iGoYoqS2sR72ChvAXAaUokVXQuKopmHhj6h0RcCr-3Hpeoiy5Qegm2aTuuo0FaYeZzO2pkg/s400/P1030623.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374127951510536242" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I think it is my idea of perfect community - creativity, sharing, purpose, colour, spice and FUN! (Minus the dinosaurs, nowadays, alas!)<br /></span>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-49479334330764899202009-08-06T09:20:00.006+10:002009-08-26T09:24:49.864+10:00Going, going, gone<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Swallowed by vegetable jungle, a small boy...<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhggRYgxZ2NpD1oRJ6ONjzAI1a17eKj0aM6m2SBzPI55If8FOcAsd1sKp9aZjlGrPxMKv68zy9y98aqH71hVlgnPrBB_xwqEGEFA3v4caO_S4s_linN_UorOcNjxItY8o4sh_ybqa3OdM/s1600-h/P1030405.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhggRYgxZ2NpD1oRJ6ONjzAI1a17eKj0aM6m2SBzPI55If8FOcAsd1sKp9aZjlGrPxMKv68zy9y98aqH71hVlgnPrBB_xwqEGEFA3v4caO_S4s_linN_UorOcNjxItY8o4sh_ybqa3OdM/s400/P1030405.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374046239257473442" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLoM1WEexf3ibUxatSvyXfWrEjTxDLLjdZ-Qzvf0b6my8VIcszjQDnckq2497FhAC6gYn_aMGmGeX8r4f3pUhKFceZyq4OX5QbzMaBPn_3Njts53emE10GCtf9aDMF3sQWuEOmPNPGOc/s1600-h/P1030406.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8aEXPq8dTVY3I_h5X0A7tu1G8bNIZ4lHgjifFDRY2pncxa1k5OXPk61CDY51QDhZOu57Zcqma_iyU_zUk90_JJHAenEWNPKYulvg-62b1iqQc108KTUwSCZ1Pv2PmZAund6xPHd82M4/s400/P1030419.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374045867077850866" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-88961847524393086672009-08-01T11:12:00.000+10:002009-08-26T09:19:37.592+10:00Extravagant abundance<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Saw this beautiful, paper thin and fragile seed pod spray in the garden, with all its very many hollows for all its many seeds, and was blown away at the generosity of our natural world. From one seed comes a brave plant, from one plant comes a hundred seeds. Such extravagance! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Everything striving towards life.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMBwWAfqlJQSk1ARgVNT15uXKqgiSZHSkv4uzZDun_sqkfktWycFhva6o0-7dLH8n28AUfNAVyD4Iv4z7NYM_t0OTxwJPUdI7mgExUZQ10f_iQNNftykgHI92HUyJXdJDy6IctGMAuqg/s1600-h/P1030438.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQMBwWAfqlJQSk1ARgVNT15uXKqgiSZHSkv4uzZDun_sqkfktWycFhva6o0-7dLH8n28AUfNAVyD4Iv4z7NYM_t0OTxwJPUdI7mgExUZQ10f_iQNNftykgHI92HUyJXdJDy6IctGMAuqg/s400/P1030438.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374043727516531890" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-53387872185099064752009-07-28T09:05:00.001+10:002009-08-26T09:12:46.553+10:00The preparation<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Should've put these up before, of Ro and Cam deliberating over the placement of rocks, and getting the depths right to invite in frogs (they like at least 50cm for their tadpoles to stay cool).</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPT2gpnD0g66xbstx1cpx3DXciUjamicAsuXIjrN98ciGxySvXwRaiggR5FG4pkmm3_ONNcXwZHgKoUdayu_JxKE_lrIsBIo0s9m4rT7G3_gv5rODT9evRhPy-G7GjkYhbh3W6Gh9Tsvo/s1600-h/P1030427.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi99Q4dVMqk_Ga7l-6gjpxDXZs5HjMx26vfxxizI3_ALMBNqb3z3UGisnMj306oUeZFKz5N2VAyw8hxCbr2a5doPOpjUpGl3LsGgyIWmwbOwU5rkRXQ0RkE1K42qhPxRsHpCP6hLeoKB1w/s1600-h/P1030425.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqb0bW4LQqcsPJ50U-JFODp2FLLPU18akwsRDgaMRVHZM-4flFfUCFK5S54IRMamHMxGhLWRJpwuJJjt7zBzYqoMHJTiy9M-9UQzRMIhNzA6QLBNuAqgt6P6OusESCRDo7wZkQSdP0Ms/s400/P1030435.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374042373339398546" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></div></div>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-90623762958874391312009-07-27T18:14:00.009+10:002009-07-30T16:12:15.173+10:00A food forest sprouts...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ3TlDfVlOowbqmUEoRu3HzG7GhI1lkyHV4xvRLcbRpCLvAvazNFiI5T-tsk5TguVqdMMoFE4jcPC5IWljm2SpCVINK6qVkjI9KY9WivHrgEf3oG8P6Nzv52E-ycudJuOhMDLipTz05VQ/s1600-h/P1030482.JPG"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTqIShP625NwWJ7VszTopGhJXv2jM4hljRxwiK3a-g0kSRQYt-qvDm1vdcmlePiAH0VVt1uLQ5pXYenoN8y7NeqhSnA0HP-OqTsBk1vE8NMNCkaAnGE2sZQ4hliJa4pAicgBO9vpRwNQ/s1600-h/P1030474.jpg"></a></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The food forest has unfurled its leaves and let down its roots! A bunch of the participants from our last PDC courses (and now friends!) came over on the weekend with loved ones and kiddies and set to work - at the end of the day we sat back and admired a whole beautiful new system of fruit trees and herbs and berry patches, and ...</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">...this bit's a secret surprise for K+C when they come back from Uganda but I'm pretty sure with the rainy season and a solar power supply for their internet over there they ain't checking this too much - the water will come off the greenhouse and chookhouse roofs and gurgle and chuckle down a beautiful rocky creek bed, under a bridge made of railway sleepers and into a lovely pond, alive with frogs tadpoles hiding under lilypads. There are soakage points in the creek beside fruit trees, and the pond overflows into a mulch pit disguised as a path that waters another fruit tree. Any overflow then goes into the swale at the top of the native garden, and once that's full, heads off to the stormwater drain. Wonderful function, and very beautiful form!</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZgs-oRdgq8QLIJlpWvrNLBi7u0TRGEmaKMejWe7qAlITwKQx0mnQNfqcAjd9vt2USSPOxVeMa34KGwt8WwdI_sO_tS9v2Yonz881pu9JTRdU7HlxPmwesEz_PRaix-WNKBHy-a-7w5M/s1600-h/P1030558.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZgs-oRdgq8QLIJlpWvrNLBi7u0TRGEmaKMejWe7qAlITwKQx0mnQNfqcAjd9vt2USSPOxVeMa34KGwt8WwdI_sO_tS9v2Yonz881pu9JTRdU7HlxPmwesEz_PRaix-WNKBHy-a-7w5M/s400/P1030558.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364125334602689458" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTQo1vAmfDuwiRaygJOjenT49smWlav23omEHighdSJCzvdz855qJ1elb37aOIRVY9q9nPCD7nBIoXmnl8e1KPXBNmfMLr8OuK47oyC9ASIf6M87K8WymBW6IDLV99-SR5Wr6oG4BXgWs/s1600-h/P1030560.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTQo1vAmfDuwiRaygJOjenT49smWlav23omEHighdSJCzvdz855qJ1elb37aOIRVY9q9nPCD7nBIoXmnl8e1KPXBNmfMLr8OuK47oyC9ASIf6M87K8WymBW6IDLV99-SR5Wr6oG4BXgWs/s400/P1030560.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364125331221354210" /></a><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Planting those little asparagus octopuses, for more perennial crops:</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXUK2KyXN5vNWAPBo_mP6Vu8aQ_S7G4DPwOQlNd6dnqNIBrgQ8xeXWzW5exFRfreYySJOx6ClPXaUzpZ_PewN2_UPP7p-D_Ca8BwlNV-L32e-_FiG-u8ANQ1jxHTZqT4DsU2MycPq-K9o/s1600-h/P1030450.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXUK2KyXN5vNWAPBo_mP6Vu8aQ_S7G4DPwOQlNd6dnqNIBrgQ8xeXWzW5exFRfreYySJOx6ClPXaUzpZ_PewN2_UPP7p-D_Ca8BwlNV-L32e-_FiG-u8ANQ1jxHTZqT4DsU2MycPq-K9o/s400/P1030450.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364119576650164930" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jill asleep on the garlic in the middle of it all:</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2xQBuRmjfIq9k8iTf-wcxLVGATXKM4e_mP6OdsAG-Jr-uhx4766cZf_uqAGgBxBw9niE7X08C7RAJTDmzgRW6zIJ-vFAS5qafEX3zPPCd0Gume-Yhu1IcpyYFRFmmdONylIY99gyAlg/s1600-h/P1030455.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2xQBuRmjfIq9k8iTf-wcxLVGATXKM4e_mP6OdsAG-Jr-uhx4766cZf_uqAGgBxBw9niE7X08C7RAJTDmzgRW6zIJ-vFAS5qafEX3zPPCd0Gume-Yhu1IcpyYFRFmmdONylIY99gyAlg/s400/P1030455.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364119570481456194" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wetting newspaper to cover soil with and mulch over to stop grass poking through, until the groundcovers grow and thicken and the grass can't get in:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQRUg5jgqyPSC5C-pdDDqFi6s7Lv_i5_Z4sV8EC7xBmi354EjcvGwbgLG7-ixdzhpy_iNx0ZMMW78kn8bqb1-SR2pwaIWS-lc0bMQqiKueUDjM2j1xMn6r1nbwSIY89hp0iY6fKJfr648/s1600-h/P1030469.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQRUg5jgqyPSC5C-pdDDqFi6s7Lv_i5_Z4sV8EC7xBmi354EjcvGwbgLG7-ixdzhpy_iNx0ZMMW78kn8bqb1-SR2pwaIWS-lc0bMQqiKueUDjM2j1xMn6r1nbwSIY89hp0iY6fKJfr648/s400/P1030469.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364119564695410946" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ro carting rocks for the dry creek bed:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTBMfsznW07UN-chthJpk5YN4cLflL-aQNb94VaVIPrcMKrABpmgC6wmHyvVLfShWlpburZ9CYwO6Jz8USNTF8z1Jwe1AFbEiM7VA9V5FLXANsGaLLKjvvi-mVzIXTjQjzcGfhlDAVEE/s1600-h/P1030479.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTBMfsznW07UN-chthJpk5YN4cLflL-aQNb94VaVIPrcMKrABpmgC6wmHyvVLfShWlpburZ9CYwO6Jz8USNTF8z1Jwe1AFbEiM7VA9V5FLXANsGaLLKjvvi-mVzIXTjQjzcGfhlDAVEE/s400/P1030479.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364119559262768818" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cam teaching folks the practical aspects of harvesting water, permaculture-wise: designing the interactions between water flows and water storages, using levels and systems such as mulch pits to soak water into the soil at the roots of trees where it's needed and safe from evaporation, and also to have the capability to send it off-site in heavy rain events. And not just the design but the practical how-to of cutting and joining pvc pipes etc:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ3TlDfVlOowbqmUEoRu3HzG7GhI1lkyHV4xvRLcbRpCLvAvazNFiI5T-tsk5TguVqdMMoFE4jcPC5IWljm2SpCVINK6qVkjI9KY9WivHrgEf3oG8P6Nzv52E-ycudJuOhMDLipTz05VQ/s1600-h/P1030482.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ3TlDfVlOowbqmUEoRu3HzG7GhI1lkyHV4xvRLcbRpCLvAvazNFiI5T-tsk5TguVqdMMoFE4jcPC5IWljm2SpCVINK6qVkjI9KY9WivHrgEf3oG8P6Nzv52E-ycudJuOhMDLipTz05VQ/s400/P1030482.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364126644224597858" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Getting all the water levels right to spill from one soakage to the next with a laser level:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdD7GF_u3r0bGMIHr8Z_qhlfgHR66B63dxBp6BxqIWU2ioXyyPebEULsZa_pyuUqbqQcVRuALHZmM5qXOaj54ASfeKk5Fiel6IZKsvknK5sTEJTIAxNqtjRpXPL8GTe6ZqyN3Zm8D42I/s1600-h/P1030498.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdD7GF_u3r0bGMIHr8Z_qhlfgHR66B63dxBp6BxqIWU2ioXyyPebEULsZa_pyuUqbqQcVRuALHZmM5qXOaj54ASfeKk5Fiel6IZKsvknK5sTEJTIAxNqtjRpXPL8GTe6ZqyN3Zm8D42I/s400/P1030498.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364119553742461538" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ro getting set up to use the circular saw on sleepers for the raspberry patch:</span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTqIShP625NwWJ7VszTopGhJXv2jM4hljRxwiK3a-g0kSRQYt-qvDm1vdcmlePiAH0VVt1uLQ5pXYenoN8y7NeqhSnA0HP-OqTsBk1vE8NMNCkaAnGE2sZQ4hliJa4pAicgBO9vpRwNQ/s1600-h/P1030474.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTqIShP625NwWJ7VszTopGhJXv2jM4hljRxwiK3a-g0kSRQYt-qvDm1vdcmlePiAH0VVt1uLQ5pXYenoN8y7NeqhSnA0HP-OqTsBk1vE8NMNCkaAnGE2sZQ4hliJa4pAicgBO9vpRwNQ/s400/P1030474.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364125817931934450" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Planting in support species under an apricot tree in the smoky light of the dying day:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd2kiviuntLEfHxJl0b5m3g2F0MAGJK9PD_tfEkWc89t9_pmBaQm1ZunXtXcqyx0UDcKLv8aBfcDAeUxSXC66EOBL1agbdGnplaxhpjB5A5bgwBgD2tPouvOnKWZUWvbWaOtSFaSXTL1Q/s400/P1030505.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364117506323474466" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The shrub layer is mainly red, black and white currants, delicious! There is a mix of different groundcovers, some will send roots deep down to draw nutrient up for the fruit trees to access more easily, others will fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil. Some will attract beneficial insects (bees for pollination, native wasps to eat pests), others are delicious herbs and greens for medicinal and culinary use.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">How lovely, to create a luscious forest in one's own backyard!</span></div></div></div>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-51963530431482451202009-07-03T09:13:00.000+10:002009-07-03T09:13:24.974+10:00Jack tracks<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tracking a small boy through the garden on his muddy knees...</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOKEApegQRKEG6JFzKV_npfm9Tg8o2oCbeWXRazVs-_YJPnYiHkXU8PJXwf8_NRiSd4oYFBa1ZAz_qevlN9_HGBeufbcIl5vefjr9GM9vEMKr2bXCrF5wtqHQPk_QuDTs4o_ZQ9jq3odU/s1600-h/P1030259.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGy35-r3VnDbXU3kmTvesVjqsmgKYTiMJJCfMRuKsUb4HS730EonWCeVM1QAAIF-p9llsRz68rTmYmOof6PZTjGkKBD0qslZIiAtkonTTAgBbyxecNC_xJZieVOwmal2_NhT2ixFmo2WE/s1600-h/P1030257.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGy35-r3VnDbXU3kmTvesVjqsmgKYTiMJJCfMRuKsUb4HS730EonWCeVM1QAAIF-p9llsRz68rTmYmOof6PZTjGkKBD0qslZIiAtkonTTAgBbyxecNC_xJZieVOwmal2_NhT2ixFmo2WE/s400/P1030257.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353659448857320050" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Found </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">him!</span><br /></div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOKEApegQRKEG6JFzKV_npfm9Tg8o2oCbeWXRazVs-_YJPnYiHkXU8PJXwf8_NRiSd4oYFBa1ZAz_qevlN9_HGBeufbcIl5vefjr9GM9vEMKr2bXCrF5wtqHQPk_QuDTs4o_ZQ9jq3odU/s400/P1030259.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353659453881941202" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-26885784890714747422009-07-02T11:32:00.006+10:002009-07-02T11:43:58.607+10:00The greenhouse<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The greenhouse is coming along, even in the wild winds... </span></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7AFGT7qzsnUAAzkaj6WoZjVRZd6lk6-FH4anD2l9e51MS6vEwATgJpDJVULn1TUySWp03sTi9ZXn6oF5vF-QXt8qhL7H1MHUAtDwwbqKUb4D7YBqZ6WdwHDD0uvOJ0s3ZOOvv8fB0do/s1600-h/P1030276.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7AFGT7qzsnUAAzkaj6WoZjVRZd6lk6-FH4anD2l9e51MS6vEwATgJpDJVULn1TUySWp03sTi9ZXn6oF5vF-QXt8qhL7H1MHUAtDwwbqKUb4D7YBqZ6WdwHDD0uvOJ0s3ZOOvv8fB0do/s400/P1030276.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353670023113447794" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKs033cvMSSU9v0QemCsPCUBqYJUj35xdSR44xtlKzhyphenhyphen4CEsBUSzDtl48ZLcpfGukjw7CfBmsSpwGg5yclEwVB8fpKSQ53tMadlclI-YkCKaUalg5sPOGdhks6lbwXHIC_jiCz5DptZfo/s1600-h/P1030283.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKs033cvMSSU9v0QemCsPCUBqYJUj35xdSR44xtlKzhyphenhyphen4CEsBUSzDtl48ZLcpfGukjw7CfBmsSpwGg5yclEwVB8fpKSQ53tMadlclI-YkCKaUalg5sPOGdhks6lbwXHIC_jiCz5DptZfo/s400/P1030283.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353670020684409122" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The chickens keep sharp eye on its progress at all times! After all, it's attached to their chookhouse to help warm it in winter, with roof vents to open in summer allowing cool air to draw through from below and hot air to escape out the top. That way we can keep the temperature inside fairly constant and humid through the seasons for the seedlings to germinate and thrive, and also for a few tomatoes and herbs etc that we can grow in there through winter, hooray! </span></div><div> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oRg5YL4Dw-Cao-E1kpRtlbHDfNfH4KNS0pgq4wFYl603nAensiJtFDCdDwpcqilMWpG5x3Mg35BQ9B1KhTTjnTf3-OC0QeXB0-BX1g7KN1GbxyIqvp8B6eheJ7MEBOTHIIc3Yi1x21g/s1600-h/P1030310.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oRg5YL4Dw-Cao-E1kpRtlbHDfNfH4KNS0pgq4wFYl603nAensiJtFDCdDwpcqilMWpG5x3Mg35BQ9B1KhTTjnTf3-OC0QeXB0-BX1g7KN1GbxyIqvp8B6eheJ7MEBOTHIIc3Yi1x21g/s400/P1030310.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353670009492835346" /></a><br /></div>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-37099842204900131712009-06-23T15:19:00.010+10:002009-06-23T20:35:43.983+10:00A real true food forest<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">K+C have given the green light from Uganda – we’re establishing a food forest! All the elf in Cam is rejoicing…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">An </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">edible forest garden</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> follows the pattern of a wild woodland, mimicking what works so well in nature, but in this case is all edible. So the canopy will be peach, apricot and plum trees, the understorey red, white and black currants and other berries, and the groundcovers a fragrant mix of culinary and medicinal herbs – o! the delight!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We’ve already planted in green manure crops to prepare and enrich the soil: </span></span></p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span></span></span></span><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWzhDhrOgMJliKbYjT5qZ09CEotM7htHpXn01C5SCbrbHKqS0E8ivb_wCgdQqxOQ5sbOZDS3vUj-2LJsBODI2TMvuZ4C9eiOq7ez1gCLxiBgr-q1d6_bvntgkpFs51sE0XXckhVQxXr-0/s400/May+050.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350468048363339554" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 24px; "><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Wheat, oats and broad beans growing amongst lots of horse poo, and a few weeks later:</span><br /></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4wBOEgS_dB8t_8CCxeYriw0uHpd0hgxSIG2HsmCtLkxFZRW-_w0Qq6ZvLoKj6PnW7p4PWJe-g1QXvaZ6WaBkLMHJFz5nMZGi_J948iiSvTQYpYviKYX4N3eURZUmRm3WGgMME5FxeAU/s400/May+2009+081.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350468047158193618" /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.... and Cam’s staked out the spots for the trees and their support species – he’s valiantly holding himself back from blitzing the whole thing right now and waiting instead to do it as a workshop to give our students an opportunity to get their hands dirty beginning a real true food forest themselves. Then they can go home and plant their own… Oooo, imagine – ripe and delicious food forests, alight with birdsong and berries and a little bit of the wild, spreading home to home, jumping fences…</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And so, to distract Cam’s attention in the meantime, we’re going to spend next week building a greenhouse attached to the chook house. Watch this space!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile, just to mark what it looks like before becoming a food forest, viewed from the terraced vegie beds:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkUikeK6TfVCtEAOdRrUWw92n-HtoT1sGmH_iVLkScG1dr9GMNm9KiJDaQAKWWqnA4h4qYoDNmHV2-UG1weeMewLKAZG8zmwLlyqF7riwi7QZKf7ya7MAWQLjxryd-PquHEl6TVXsFDM/s400/May+2009+120.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350395188251485490" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-7067768393751093832009-06-13T10:48:00.001+10:002009-06-20T11:14:44.533+10:00Ro sneaking into class<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here’s Ro making a break from cooking lunch in the kitchen with me to join all his friends in class doing their PDC! The sacks of oats and wheat are meant to be a Great Wall but now he can bowl right over the top in his barbarian woolly vest…</span></span></p><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx3gZKvES7VoAqEg8ml2yXiyaANpMVm2YVUu1O_Z5UB5E6cXM6_1WJpRuvLIJrSn_oYffe4pd8je0Mu3oGVyjwCm6S1XZxsgtiWIldPLn0YlMlaDMEsO2pHljQi_SZBF1nroO3zZA8qv0/s400/May+2009+040.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349206269733529874" /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What will it be like teaching the courses at the end of the year when he’s even more mobile?! He'll probably be in teaching with Cam...</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-7368376958655201362009-06-02T11:09:00.000+10:002009-06-20T11:13:47.506+10:00The good smell of warm bread<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We made soda bread the other day, mainly to up our intake of bicarb soda! It binds well with phosphate which then flushes out of our bodies. Apparently with so much of our food grown these days using superphosphate we’ve usually got an overload of phosphate in our systems and it’s not great for you. Another great reason to enjoy home-grown organic food!</span></span></p><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlLvMptknc8R5eufvoBISZQhJhz_lXab3fSaf56gbT_Ek9ZlkOtZyh9U7TXMt5aFP_Tgr8IjaXEpPBf6yCtxr8-ghaZxOaW2Np_4xAq35D4TcIOxUklCb34FpyDjR3yXdNWjIrK6oQg4/s400/May+2009+062.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349211062752479922" /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The bread came out smelling like scones, mmmmmm. Stayed fresh for the three days it took us to eat it, and was light and moist but dense enough to be filling. We used home-made yoghurt instead of buttermilk (not having a house cow – o! the bliss of having a house cow!):</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2 2/3 cups wholemeal flour</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2 1/2 cups plain flour</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1 tsp salt</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1 tsp bicarb soda</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2 ¾ cups buttermilk</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Knead til smooth, roll into a ball 20cm in diameter, then place on a greased tray and cut 1cm deep slashes in the top. Brush with milk, and bake in moderate oven for 50 mins. Enjoy!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Not as wonderfully delicious as sourdough, but quick and easy and avoids commercial yeasts.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-57709197873345067772009-05-22T20:47:00.008+10:002009-05-22T21:32:33.101+10:00Brown life, brim full<div>Went for a wander this evening to enjoy the damp autumn with Yarrow and was amazed to find so many different fungi budding up through leaf litter and pine needles, even in the nooks and dark places of our own garden. Along the railway tracks and under our nasturtiums, soft nutbrown homes for wee folk. </div><div><br /></div><div>It feels utterly magic - thinking of the soil crept through and rich with fungi, trading sugars with the finest hair roots of trees and carrying it miles, literally! to trees further down the line... Fungi and tiny soil creatures and questing roots, crystals of water brimful with minerals, huge monsters of worms churning through, the whole thing heaving and boiling and bursting with life! </div><div><br /></div><div>The fungi budding up like periscopes, hiding in the dark, enjoying the damp and the fire colours of autumn. </div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjQl_V4uisLnfeQBFN_g-Ai5jDFQx2wD-xTwdPm_pw0RoxOJIx1AYMmkLtlZJTrMpAQqW4ZazzgHt-eNmwMrf9Z7So0z-_nfTGmUq4yrErtyg3QtQDR2QVfgAutuPIqGDj8yiu8K3d40/s1600-h/P1030161.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjQl_V4uisLnfeQBFN_g-Ai5jDFQx2wD-xTwdPm_pw0RoxOJIx1AYMmkLtlZJTrMpAQqW4ZazzgHt-eNmwMrf9Z7So0z-_nfTGmUq4yrErtyg3QtQDR2QVfgAutuPIqGDj8yiu8K3d40/s400/P1030161.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338599299698591410" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWhA1uZnBwowGtx18CAmrnOQdK7Usj8ugARF48UEVHl3Cy4L9yeQw9Ck2waPhXMKK4-x4Rlyus-9kfNC7_IuYdLUVtZZIeSSQGVZ7z2y8B2dc8NH9HtWlLO6OUIse4mT02QkE3nT9OBao/s1600-h/P1030167.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWhA1uZnBwowGtx18CAmrnOQdK7Usj8ugARF48UEVHl3Cy4L9yeQw9Ck2waPhXMKK4-x4Rlyus-9kfNC7_IuYdLUVtZZIeSSQGVZ7z2y8B2dc8NH9HtWlLO6OUIse4mT02QkE3nT9OBao/s400/P1030167.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338599298062915986" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVtMRYbrSdwHm7SFBORJX7CEz58RfN-xG-qbLDHz7ZG0HHPk3KYE-mhoRO2ILK_jCKI2wuJsGSxGcjpCbhWVUjz8HvBpDwd0CqOMlF3PeQGrW0Ra82q6GLL1ReMrAve8IJOD94uuHRyKo/s1600-h/P1030155.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVtMRYbrSdwHm7SFBORJX7CEz58RfN-xG-qbLDHz7ZG0HHPk3KYE-mhoRO2ILK_jCKI2wuJsGSxGcjpCbhWVUjz8HvBpDwd0CqOMlF3PeQGrW0Ra82q6GLL1ReMrAve8IJOD94uuHRyKo/s400/P1030155.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338599291333273250" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Surely this little one is waiting for its fairy to come home </div><div style="text-align: center;">and light a candle in its window...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgobo6uRBuHUWyFGr9s07Ja9J1OpVu4SbuZTqVy0Y7qZm-AScdQXfzIDtNEbYXqhKKC4ZKCu3V9CWmqlaYUJXnbvVZmVtvYXeOEW5C9vGQ2pHGO2PEsEtDaBIMRRm0aGQr5Ik2xnm9KUhs/s1600-h/P1030063.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgobo6uRBuHUWyFGr9s07Ja9J1OpVu4SbuZTqVy0Y7qZm-AScdQXfzIDtNEbYXqhKKC4ZKCu3V9CWmqlaYUJXnbvVZmVtvYXeOEW5C9vGQ2pHGO2PEsEtDaBIMRRm0aGQr5Ik2xnm9KUhs/s400/P1030063.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338599286705733378" style="display: block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUpkfKb-lavOoiJbO6bY8KmyQMp8G4rc77NvYSb7FlJGn45ZrTtTSkz-Nv41heu2IByANMO-eQMBQscoVj3A3w0D6eQmdB5_CM5UZCIXUuwZqilooFKN21x01dKBhuic_BEHR4fTm5Kb8/s400/P1030127.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338600157513846834" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">... while these wait for impish hobgoblins!<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ocTr6EFpPtwv2n8VQGsTw7mit1CC8LTV4Izq69N1XFY5vHXvB5qeU748gg3qPO_lAxBdqJsMqn6gLtmAF-JdTNSVoqbj9LcycIr-nn-tcKjxi81ii2oQKNRTYcivRTwvFvC_PmkyZ48/s1600-h/P1030131.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ocTr6EFpPtwv2n8VQGsTw7mit1CC8LTV4Izq69N1XFY5vHXvB5qeU748gg3qPO_lAxBdqJsMqn6gLtmAF-JdTNSVoqbj9LcycIr-nn-tcKjxi81ii2oQKNRTYcivRTwvFvC_PmkyZ48/s400/P1030131.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338600155212692466" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGJAo7KAgAOEToMN19etZ4NBBoj79Xxn_2KnsxIf9Bnet88-JYOt5ZqnYkB4jTZHDuT36PUNjTQJp4e04AJA-feAgfGq-wTyJKfLiw69oBCqgA7A-pxcWC5pKfH9Ksyq8h4xjyME7qM2c/s1600-h/P1030150.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGJAo7KAgAOEToMN19etZ4NBBoj79Xxn_2KnsxIf9Bnet88-JYOt5ZqnYkB4jTZHDuT36PUNjTQJp4e04AJA-feAgfGq-wTyJKfLiw69oBCqgA7A-pxcWC5pKfH9Ksyq8h4xjyME7qM2c/s400/P1030150.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338600150223599874" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik4gcBBRGfsD0CnGP-t702G22alf8cdd1VR3raW7NNNczN2PqNqSov-Z7_DvAh-sfUC0am0pPRLp4lVD4EdBWlIiyNYOEA18-Bfo6eOqFVPuJhUzgcHGDTr1nFK-M7cXO-ZssybtZh0jU/s1600-h/P1030157.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik4gcBBRGfsD0CnGP-t702G22alf8cdd1VR3raW7NNNczN2PqNqSov-Z7_DvAh-sfUC0am0pPRLp4lVD4EdBWlIiyNYOEA18-Bfo6eOqFVPuJhUzgcHGDTr1nFK-M7cXO-ZssybtZh0jU/s400/P1030157.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338600150452640178" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjQl_V4uisLnfeQBFN_g-Ai5jDFQx2wD-xTwdPm_pw0RoxOJIx1AYMmkLtlZJTrMpAQqW4ZazzgHt-eNmwMrf9Z7So0z-_nfTGmUq4yrErtyg3QtQDR2QVfgAutuPIqGDj8yiu8K3d40/s1600-h/P1030161.jpg"></a><br /></div>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087811668920990302.post-70063311555707877692009-05-17T12:54:00.003+10:002009-05-17T13:41:40.068+10:00Rain can be a girl's best friend<div>Beautiful rain! A dripping garden and filling tank. Pearls of water fat and opalescent in the crease of round nasturtium leaves, chooks fluffed up and snuggled into each other, the orchard misty and the smell of wet earth. </div><div><br /></div><div>Rain like diamonds caught in the lace of fine leaf fronds.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzM4bWD0jzJ7efHcRqMWpqXayDvYCt4Zr2E2WI3NI-NgXt6ZatrVdAgMdgzABrk4b2rJzLmTW5tBwB0hCSc5fYUAIa4fyitQSrwdWjG6TSCYxQ6r1tFkY8Bkvv_uzfnmM1o-TKCz3yLaI/s1600-h/May+106.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzM4bWD0jzJ7efHcRqMWpqXayDvYCt4Zr2E2WI3NI-NgXt6ZatrVdAgMdgzABrk4b2rJzLmTW5tBwB0hCSc5fYUAIa4fyitQSrwdWjG6TSCYxQ6r1tFkY8Bkvv_uzfnmM1o-TKCz3yLaI/s400/May+106.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336632639068495522" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIfSSAoVQ0yknmUpWycePE5_8Eir7uSTDgBoJ8xgyfRcR8fNgcoJMkb6PQKeUgw2JGTkkhRIEEEATVKXabkwP5AEyHoPHP2bt8UW4hZqDqP4LeG4mo1f0p6IOVBrxB1jNiaLDsT7JypA/s1600-h/May+108.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIfSSAoVQ0yknmUpWycePE5_8Eir7uSTDgBoJ8xgyfRcR8fNgcoJMkb6PQKeUgw2JGTkkhRIEEEATVKXabkwP5AEyHoPHP2bt8UW4hZqDqP4LeG4mo1f0p6IOVBrxB1jNiaLDsT7JypA/s400/May+108.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336632371898663266" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu5qg94YWLXQoK2Fskr_8eGaH_H445vODfNTXOSpdqFI5heF7w9xvxenUgx8wTEOxS5skzOxZp9x-IRhyv1zUzXh49w3PoMmRSPF6lHNXeTPguCaBiuI27czbNq-EiDWsXUbk42qZG0yo/s1600-h/May+109.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu5qg94YWLXQoK2Fskr_8eGaH_H445vODfNTXOSpdqFI5heF7w9xvxenUgx8wTEOxS5skzOxZp9x-IRhyv1zUzXh49w3PoMmRSPF6lHNXeTPguCaBiuI27czbNq-EiDWsXUbk42qZG0yo/s400/May+109.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336632369642746450" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsoGYbwgUjmUpEy7JH16Z3UhQqUg0EalQCvOxZ2a1Du4RojKJ33EN3u09GuFkW5W7tZ9NJINFVyOwD-ORb1FLft8o-SnD-0RoyPhlIYg6VzTPhHvYkO9vjpInHubAE7WsOxIaH9IzU4o/s1600-h/May+112.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsoGYbwgUjmUpEy7JH16Z3UhQqUg0EalQCvOxZ2a1Du4RojKJ33EN3u09GuFkW5W7tZ9NJINFVyOwD-ORb1FLft8o-SnD-0RoyPhlIYg6VzTPhHvYkO9vjpInHubAE7WsOxIaH9IzU4o/s400/May+112.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336632368399729522" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrWhiOqyPgdu3th5GZFSvMecZ3HojTDmjR3MUGF5tDC7dBjdalZnRhGelWENwnbhZqC1NecbXMvgWDm-S_QOvOiILWie2uF0mR92EqYgTtX4g0hRXwBs8Hivgai5Wm7FOvYRr3wc9K10/s1600-h/May+114.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrWhiOqyPgdu3th5GZFSvMecZ3HojTDmjR3MUGF5tDC7dBjdalZnRhGelWENwnbhZqC1NecbXMvgWDm-S_QOvOiILWie2uF0mR92EqYgTtX4g0hRXwBs8Hivgai5Wm7FOvYRr3wc9K10/s400/May+114.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336632368149665586" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3BvU7VR8ZPVXjC_cJlCFEaHtqwFFDyu6VOUaaHu1iqNksbUi-C0ExzF0RSdJ_77bJ3HUYWvNfE8T6L1t_4OIoAkDFs9mzhLbfHO-Xw5_dDwL2oCDXNa-m-JMDfpJvhA-LaTN5hM6XB1s/s1600-h/May+116.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3BvU7VR8ZPVXjC_cJlCFEaHtqwFFDyu6VOUaaHu1iqNksbUi-C0ExzF0RSdJ_77bJ3HUYWvNfE8T6L1t_4OIoAkDFs9mzhLbfHO-Xw5_dDwL2oCDXNa-m-JMDfpJvhA-LaTN5hM6XB1s/s400/May+116.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336632364994072482" /></a><br /><p class="Jessie"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>Nomad Motherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731734779056650336noreply@blogger.com0