Our Orchard

We planted over fifty different fruit trees in the garden of our Blackberry Lane house. They were planted in an area of compacted and…

Lidsdale House Garden

The garden surrounding Lidsdale House was designed by Paul Sorensen. It is lush and manicured. But the 1940s extensions to the house are in…

Wallerawang Ferals

Occasionally cows, kangaroos, dogs, goats (named “Butthead” and ” Buttarse”) and local teenagers would come wandering uninvited through our garden at Wallerawang.

Lidsdale House

Lidsdale House was the big house owned by the Neubecks on the hill above Blackmans Flat where I lived with my grandmother. The Neubecks…

Blackberry Lane

This is the house that Wendy and I moved to in Wallerawang in 2003. This photo is a few years later after we had…