An Unlikley Heaven

(Underground Buildings, Water Filtration, Plants and Birds) When a lovely assistant at the Inverloch Visitor Information Centre handed us a brochure for the local desalination plant and recommended it as a great walking location we were initially a bit dubious. The cover photo looked like an undulating, windswept moonscape, but nestled in the background was…

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Meet our new overlords…

After a peaceful stretch looking after three quiet chickens in the hills, we thought we had this house-sitting caper completely sorted. Enter our next house-sit near Wonthaggi on the Bass Coast, where we’ve officially handed over daily management of our lives to a delightfully energetic four-legged board of directors. Our new furry overlords are a…

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Farewell to Spa Country

G’day everyone! Jo and Peter here. Well, our month-long house-sit in Mount Franklin and the surrounding Daylesford area has officially come to an end, and what a chapter it’s been! When people hear you’re spending a month in Victoria’s famous “Spa Country,” they picture day spas, aromatherapy massages, sipping Pinot Noir at fancy wineries, doing…

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Joanne is officially Birdbrained!

Alright, settle down everyone. Peter here taking over the keyboard for a minute (or two – I type very slowly). Jo’s been telling anyone who’ll listen—including her mum Julie and anyone else who reads this blog—that I lack a “spiritual side.” She reckons that because I’m usually found muttering at our Victron battery management system…

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Peter Gets Religion

Well, write it down in the history books, folks. Miracles really do happen on the road! We’re currently settled in at our Mount Franklin house sit—living the high life looking after three very opinionated chickens, braving minus-four-degree frosts, and doing our absolute best not to wander down to the local Belgian chocolate factory more than…

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