Wednesday after a busy morning in the garden I met Emma at Ikea to look for a kitchen bench on wheels that I could also use as an extension to my kitchen island bench.  I had been eyeing off one…

Birak is the Nyoongar season or summer.  The warmer weather is taking hold and the rains easing.  Hot easterly winds come in off the inland desert with the sea-cooled breezes from the southwest coming across in the afternoons – in…

Do you ever lay awake at night with a head full of wonderful ideas and inspiration? I do and sometimes I’m amazed at what comes of these ideas.  This blog describes a few of these ideas coming to fruition, a…

Kambarang is the Nyoongar (local indigenous people) second spring from October-November.  Nyoongar calendar includes six seasons.  Kambarang is known as a season of birth, a time of the year when the countryside is transformed with an abundance of coloured flowers…

My first morning in Newman I woke just before dawn, waiting for enough light to go jogging. My hostess, Janice had said there was an exercise track just down the road from her place, which I was eager to check…

It was a few years back now, when Frances asked if I would be interested in going with her when she and Bill next visited the Martu Community in Newman WA, and at the time I immediately said yes, but…