gday

wyverne · Post: # 50908Post **wyverne** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:02 pm

i've been doing self-sufficiency for about twenty eight years, since buying my bit of the mallee in 1979. i've got one human companion (we're in a non-sexual pair-bond), a dog, three cats, chooks and goats, both milkers and angoras. i've turned pagan (druid) and i'm working consciously with fairies, ("for joy and for fun" as the song goes). i used to write articles for grass roots magazine about hand-spinning and native medicinal herbs and other topics under the name vivienne manouge, but that was a few years ago - late eighties, early nineties. we've got some solar panels for laptops and cd players, but i still use candles for light and a fire for warmth and indoor cooking. we've got a solar oven made from recycled stuff, a solar cooker for making tea, and an adobe wood stove and oven for overcast days. no tv - aren't we lucky! there's a productive orchard and gardens. we make all our own wines from our own fruit, and mead from raw honey purchased locally. we often sing folksongs together in the evenings. we're happy. i'm joining this list just to make contact noises with anyone else out there...

Wombat · Post: # 50910Post **Wombat** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:10 pm

G'Day Wyverne!

Not only another Aussie, but another GR contributor too!

Welcome to the forum

Nev

wyverne · Post: # 50911Post **wyverne** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:20 pm

gday wombat,
good to meet you!
can't find the hearty handshake emoticon, but there, you get the idea!
wyverne

red · Post: # 50912Post **red** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:38 pm

welcome

Wombat · Post: # 50915Post **Wombat** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:40 am

wyverne wrote:gday wombat,
good to meet you!
can't find the hearty handshake emoticon, but there, you get the idea!
wyverne

I do indeed!

Nev

9ball · Post: # 50916Post **9ball** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:21 am

:welcomeish: wyverne

Millymollymandy · Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:47 am

Hi there and welcome! Whereabouts in Australia is Mallee?

Andy Hamilton · Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:58 am

Sounds like an amazing life you have for yourself there, look forward to hearing more from you. Welcome to the forum.

Shirley · Post: # 50924Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:05 am

Hi Wyverne

:welcomeish:

Lovely to have you here.

wyverne · Post: # 50978Post **wyverne** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:00 pm

thanks for the welcome everyone.
millymollymandy, the mallee is a very large area in the southern part of australia where the dominant tree species are several kinds of small, multi-stemmed eucalypts, the sort they get eucalyptus oil from. it's a sparse, semi-arid scrub-land, full of wildlife - kangaroos, wombats, echidnas and small marsupials, many reptiles, unique bird-life and many wildflowers adapted to arid conditions. here's a photo taken from my office doorstep.

if you click the small photo it will take you to a bigger one. it looks especially beautiful in the early morning light.
wyverne [/img]