On the first day of 2008 we have had all sorts of water adventures. Seemingly it wasn’t the just the pump playing up. Now it’s the valves. So after much gnashing of teeth we spent the day kicking the water system to get it to spring into life. Oh the joys... Hurray, new neighbours. After the steers were moved from the the paddock it’s been lonely with no friends to talk to.Fear not, we’ve got new neighbours this week. The dinkiest, sweetest family of goats – billy, bessy and their little kids.Dramatic... Regular blog readers will know that there are all sorts of exciting things we experience living in a rural area. One of which is having a rural water supply.What this means is we collect the rain from the roof, fill the tank and then pump it back into the house via a... I know that this sounds like a cheap excuse for not blogging but it really has been full on. Festive domesticity is always a challenge but for this domestic executive in this year it’s been more challenging than most.Fortunatly my just in time methodology served... My parents project since they’ve arrived is to help turn the landscape planting plan into a reality. We’ve been cruising to nurseries and the internet to find the array of plants specified in the plan.Having tracked down about 100 plants then the challenge... 