Since my jottings in February we have had another couple hundred millimetres of rain to help keep the dust down.  This has lead to H and I having to spend most weekends shovelling gravel on the drive way to rebuild it – we have another couple of week-ends to go to complete this task.

We also lost Ruby (the first calf born on the property since we took over) to either a snake bite or to a disease called “black-leg” (is a highly fatal disease of young cattle caused by the spore forming, ...