Another Day - a collection of thoughts, happenings, dreams and inspirations

In a little cottage on the side of a hill in Southern Tasmania is where the song of this story is sung. Once a place where sheep grazed, this home is now a retreat for pademelons, bandicoots, echidnas, and our family. Originally from the East Coast of New South Wales we traded hectic highways for a calmer, more meaningful pace of life.
I'm Elke and together with my husband Graham - we strive to live conscious, grounded and joyful lives as we share the privilege of walking along a parenting path with our two precious children; Chilli and Marlin.

Every time we brunch @cygnet .old.bank I pick up a canister or two of @tasmanianteacompany to add to our home tea collection. One of yesterday’s two new additions - Chocolate Velvet
That’s a wrap for this weekend outside. Still LOTS to do on our winter garden task list, but lots accomplished as well. The snow gear came in super handy for keeping us toasty and dry while we pottered around outside this weekend ☔️❄️
Pottering in amongst showers, drinking cups of herbal tea and reading another little snippet of A Column of Fire during the downpours Winter in the Garden
This little winter gnome has been working alongside me in the gardens, potting up cuttings and seedlings that are surplus here, starting to prepare for the Christmas Homes-cool market this year. We’re thinking we’ll take along the remaining non-perishable jars from our unsuccessful second Christmas market last year (as these were wildly popular at the Homes-cool market), along with potted plants so far consisting of; ‘sweetheart’ and ‘chandler’ strawberries, Dyer’s woad, ‘Gazania’ aka African Daisy, and one or two pots of Lavender and ‘Ballota’ aka False Destiny. Marlin was also captivated by the idea of a ‘raffle’ that some stalls
To keep warm in the garden today - Orange le Fleur from @tasmanianteacompany
Winter water collection set up in Mud Pie Kitchen
Marlin’s morning independent Kindergarten task :: play-doh modelling the numbers he has learnt so far this year ✨
Now that I’m up and about, I’ve been taking advantage of this ‘downtime’ through the past week while other family members have been bed ridden, to get on top of some of the winter garden tasks. With a fire ticking over in the outdoor pit and the odd little drizzle, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed these cold, misty winter days, pottering around this property we are blessed to call home. In amongst the numerous little tasks of weeding pavers here and bulb beds over there, tidying this and pruning that - the two major tasks I’ve achieved have been weeding, tidying, feeding
14 months later, I get to start reading this book the children gifted me for Mother’s Day in 2018 I’m excited to read this third instalment of the Kingsbridge Trilogy - to catch up with the town 200 years later again; see the ancestral lineage of previous characters and where their family stories are now; compare how this beloved, fictional Medieval English cathedral town has evolved (photo 3); and of course learn about life in these times for the everyday people and nobility, during the Tudor Period. I’m wondering if I’ll find a similarity in the core story lines as
Finished this one last night - thanks to some extra reading time opportunity during our recent winter lurgy slow days :: and yes, when you’re in bed feeling like you might die, the best thing to read is a saga about The Black Plague of the 1300s that mercilessly wiped out half of Europe’s population! My review at the end of this second piece in the Kingsbridge trilogy - I loved the story and as always, Ken Follett’s brilliant writing. As opposed to the weaving back on the last paragraph’s opening line being the same as the first’s in Pillars
Today’s Winter gardening attire ❄️