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Wishes for a Happy New Year…

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Wishes for a Happy New Year...

These photos date back to December 31st of 2023, New Years Eve a year ago. I don’t normally keep photos on my phone for long, but somehow these have been hanging out and waiting to be used for over a year now. Their quiet beauty reminds me of the day, how optimistic I was feeling then.

The last sunset of that year…

So many thoughts, hopes, fears. Of course I didn’t know it then, but the year ahead (2024) turned out to be a pretty good one for me. Although it must be noted that two weeks after I took these photos we were hit with a winter storm remarkable for its garden destruction. I’ve been holding my breath this year, fearful of a repeat. 

Oh 2025, what have you got in store for us? It all feels so precarious.

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Started the Swales build yesterday.

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Started the Swales build yesterday.

So after completing the composting toilet build, I’ve been running out of time with the borrowed excavator so straight into swales it is.

Forgot to take a a starting photo, but this hill is where the orchard will be and at the bottom will be vege Gardens.

First photo is all the small trees cut and moved to the side, see pile of small trees in photo 5. These will be placed into the Swale when finished to break down over time.

Once I have dug all 2-3 swales (not sure if I’ll do 3 yet) I’ll then get into shaping the mound better getting nice smooth slopes and seeding With nitrogen fixing legumes.

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‘We have to change our attitude’: wildlife expert says rhino horn trade must be legalised

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‘We have to change our attitude’: wildlife expert says rhino horn trade must be legalised

Call for illicit market to be taken out of hands of criminals as numbers continue to fall drastically due to poaching

International trade in rhino horns should be legalised, a leading wildlife expert has urged.

Writing in the research journal Science, Martin Wikelski argues only carefully monitored, legitimate transactions in horns can save the world’s remaining species of rhinoceros.

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