Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Great Daylesford Mooch

What to do? What to do? What to do? Father had started measuring the wooden kitchen bench-top and Mother's ironing my delicates. Clearly a crisis situation calling for drastic action.  Which is how The Great Daylesford Mooch (aka The Walkabout) became a new family tradition. Not to be confused... Mooch means meander


The Mill (1km from main street)
Father almost knocked himself out on the oven hood, when I mentioned that first stop in The Great Daylesford Mooch was the Mill. Father is a highly respected sawmiller and native timber specialist on the international wood circuit, and there is NOTHING he loves more than mooching around a mill. As a young family, we travelled to faraway lands…visiting sawmills, forests, tree farms, logging communities… basically anything to do with trees. Never been more grateful that Tinkerbelle and the Lost Boys lived in a tree, otherwise would never have seen Disneyland...Read more...

2 comments:

  1. methinks your kaori is really spelt kauri.

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  2. Would you believe its the ancient way of spelling Kauri? Posh English pronunciation? Anyway I've amended to adjust for public opinion

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