Sunday 1 February 2015

Under the sunshine of the day

We haven't stopped riding, of course. We rode several kms out of town to go and camp with our friends Fe and Ant and their little sproglets Luna and Fabrizio. 


We walked across the road to join more friends for a BBQ and raid their vertical berry patch. Thanks Luke and Kate!


For Meg's birthday we rode out to her sister Kate's family farm for a delicious dinner of home-made pasta and babka birthday cake. The best!


We went to Melbourne to tell our story to national breakfast TV.


They wanted to know what challenges we faced and what it was like to eat roadkill.


Back at home we wanted to know what living in Japan was like post Fukushima. Yae Fujimoto, Rick Tanaka and Hiro Fujimoto gave us an insight into the reality of living with nuclear reactors. Thanks HRN for organising this event.


From our own region's non-radioactive orchards we collected more apples. Some for juice, some for stew, some for cider, some for drying and some more for the chooks.


We've also been busy preserving, dehydrating, brewing and fermenting various stores for winter. 


Meg and Woody experimented with flaxseed crackers,


in the dehydrator. Pretty bloody good!


Zeph and Jasper got the old billycart back up and running,


before Zeph took himself off to religio-military school.


Wide lawns, narrow minds, as one Australian artist recently exhibited. Please keep hold of yourself Zeph, as you venture into this experiment with patriarchal institutionalisation.


Zeph spent his last weeks of home-education hanging out with friends, helping with the gardening, being a big brother and working on his bike.


Then it was time for our first Critical Mass ride for the year.


Followed by a small intimate gig at the Albert Street community garden with this guy,


and his partner Hayley Egan. We archived excerpts from the ride and the gig into this little vid:


We've also been pickling walnuts that we gleaned green from street and backyard trees,


and sowing companion plants, carrots and alliums, in a new raised bed made specifically for winter crops.


Whatever you're making, Dear Reader, we hope it is bringing you nourishment and fulfilment, that you're not working too hard and you have days in your week to lounge and muse and make love under the sunshine of the day.

4 comments:

  1. Studying, working, volunteering, planting, plucking, meeting and greeting. Yup. It's been a good week here too.

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  2. Baby number 2 arrives soon & we've gone a bit mad freezing, preserving, mulching (no one wants to spend hours watering on zero sleep). My little brother says we're beginning to resemble doomsday survivalists, but it seems to alleviate pre-birth anxiety !

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    1. It seems like you're organising yourselves beautifully, Jude. We totally get that. But more akin to permaculture planning than a lifeboat scenario, Little Brother.

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