Do you remember the TV series “The Good Life” ? Or was it before your time? It was about a couple turning their home and garden into a suburban farm.
Well I am not actually in suburbia and this life-style property we are house sitting is larger than the average back yard but I love that it has a large vegetable garden, lots of fruit trees and 24 multi-coloured chooks scratching around and laying us lots of eggs. I pick the oranges to squeeze a fresh orange drink each morning, I wander through the veggie patch deciding what we will have for dinner that night. The garden is organic with a thick layer of horse poo covered by a straw mulch and a couple of worm farms creating their magic tonic.
I am a farm girl at heart and I’m loving being back on this mini-farm.
This is the beauty of house sitting, you can sample all different life styles for short periods of time.
I have introduced you to the cats, now I would like to take you for a walk around the property.
Part of the lawn with the rainforest on the left, I should take the washing in…
Take a walk over to the veggie patch
The veggie garden, looking back toward the house
Lyn made the beautiful sun hanging and all the stained glass pieces
More stained glass
Veggie patch
good orange crop
Even though it is winter there are still some roses in bloom
Just a few of the 24 chooks
He is such a lovely colour
Here is one of our alarm clocks
The boss and 2 of his girls
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Once again you have entered a Good Life and yes I do remember it.
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It all looks very industrious! Love the stained glass in the veggie garden. I wouldn’t know where to start in looking after the veggies. I’m a townie, though we had an allotment when I was small and I loved to pick fresh gooseberries. 🙂
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Wow did you ever find any babies under them? 🙂
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yes my dad grew goosberries in England, how good were they
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we have always lived the good life … when it was on tele we had 5 acres and all the birds and animals, orchard and vegetable gardens … and three little sons! now we still have some of the above but are a bit more independent … ‘your’ place looks lush, and very pretty with the artworks cheering up the garden 🙂
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Hi Christine, Where about was your farmlet? It is a great way to live, second only to the travel life style… 🙂
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I think house sitting is a wonderful idea, hoping to be in the position to do it one day.
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We love it, it opens up new areas to us that we can explore from the comfort of a house as accommodation as well as meeting interesting people and pets
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When I was growing up in Philadelphia, the local PBS station had a classic Britcom night on Sunday, and The Good Life was always my favorite. I loved the characters!!! Does Margo Leadbetter live next door to this place?
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I still have to meet the neighbours, but the place across the road is for sale…
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You really are living the good life ! And yes, I am old enough to remember that series ! I love the chickens, never seen this breed before and I love the glass art in the garden !Did you bring your dogs ? Enjoy your stay !
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Aren’t we lucky Gwen to have found this house sit? We do not have any pets of our own we just enjoy other peoples, fall in love with them, then leave them behind.
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I thought the doggies you had in Tasmania were yours. It must be hard to love them and leave them then ! And yes, you sure are lucky to have found this place to look after !
Enjoy ! and give the cats a cuddle from me !
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We travel too much to have pets of our own so this is a good compromise. I will give the cats an extra cuddle they are very cuddly cats.
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I understand. When you were in Tasmania I thought ; it must be difficult when you have dogs to houssit where there are other cats or dogs.
Have a nice day !
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Thank you Gwennie
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Great pictures! What a wonderful place to house-sit! And yes, I remember The Good Life. Penelope Keith was always one of my favorites.
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Yes I loved that programme too. Maybe I am biased but I think British comedy is the best. Pity we do not see much of it now, except on re-runs
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Maybe a cassowary will wander through?
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Wow that would be some thing 🙂 but the cassowaries only live in a very small area along the coastal fringe around Innisfail. We had one visit us when we were camping in that area. here is the link to that post https://pommepal.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/cassowary-comes-visiting
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yes, this looks like a really sweet place! the touches of art in the garden, the cluster of chickens – what do you do with all of the eggs – and wow, the sun on the oranges —– everything suggests a sweet life there!
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G’day, or is it night Lisa? That is a good question about the eggs, the bantams lay smaller size eggs so I use 2 of them when it calls for 1 in a recipe, yesterday I baked a quiche that said 6 eggs and used 12 tiny eggs, it was delicious, but we are slowly loosing the race with the laying and the eating of the eggs…
Yes it is a very sweet and stress free life
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bantam chickens are so cute, and the eggs are sometimes perfect when you need just a touch of egg for croquettes or coating for a batter!
it’s good morning here.. 8:30, so we have ten more hours of daylight!
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I love their fluffy little feet. How is your garden progressing have you managed to keep the goats out?
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the goats are giving amazing respect! i saw them today on the road near the house, but they didn’t come down the little side road! yay!
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Good news for your garden, we share this garden with possums and bush turkeys…
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