Learning to be a Rock (just like Princess Diana's butler)

You can't be a softie living in the country. Sturdy constitutions are required (unless you're Madonna) for wood chopping, fighting possums with your bare hands, driving through walls of locusts, making bread from scratch before you can have a sandwich, living in freezing cold houses and digging the driveway out from under a sea of wet, just starting to go mouldy, leaves at the end of Autumn.

50th Wedding Anniversary

Luckily my gorgeous parents had an early premonition that the Wild Wild West was to be my destiny, so they prepared us (three siblings and myself) with a childhood worthy of Davy Crockett (legendary King of the Wild Frontier)...Read more...