Thursday
WANT TO VISIT YOUR SHEEP?
Former owner of "Uamby" Mary Bird is an adopting 'parent' as are her son Bob and daughter-in-law Denise. They visited recently. Mary's family owned "Uamby" from 1915 (when it passed out of the hands of the pioneer Michael Lahy's family) until 1975, and built the current homestead. Mary has a true pioneering spirit.
Miro and Judy from New Zealand visited us to see the flock. Their adopted lamb is called "Kiwi". Say Miro, "I feel like we've got a flock of one..."
Mary-Lynne Taylor visited to see Benny the male lamb, who had sent a nmote via email to Uncle Ben in England who was very ill. Benny's message of encouragement helped Ben on his return to health.
We love having visitors. But there are some traditions we observe:
1. January is usually hotter than is comfortable (48°C occasionally on our back verandah). Though his year is milder than normal, cold even. (Climate change?)
2. We don't run down individual lambs or sheep or handle them unnecessarily. The stress can kill them.
3. We do not run a conventional farm stay/dude ranch. It's a messy working farm where the dogs may drag a carcass of a dead roo or ewe they might have found, onto the front lawn to devour it. (Extreme example, but do you get the picture?)
4. Hats and sunscreen.
5. We can offer modest, comfortable accommodation in our historic cottage (a double bedroom with ensuite). Kids can have fun roughing it. OR. We can also arrange accommodation in the nearby historic gold rush town of Gulgong.
6. If you play up we'll take you to the Goolma pub and introduce you to Dan Gorrie and Harold the Publican.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Michael, Louisa. and Daniel
PS. Harold the Publican with regular Dan Gorrie, who has inherited his father's corner of the bar.
Former owner of "Uamby" Mary Bird is an adopting 'parent' as are her son Bob and daughter-in-law Denise. They visited recently. Mary's family owned "Uamby" from 1915 (when it passed out of the hands of the pioneer Michael Lahy's family) until 1975, and built the current homestead. Mary has a true pioneering spirit.
Miro and Judy from New Zealand visited us to see the flock. Their adopted lamb is called "Kiwi". Say Miro, "I feel like we've got a flock of one..."
Mary-Lynne Taylor visited to see Benny the male lamb, who had sent a nmote via email to Uncle Ben in England who was very ill. Benny's message of encouragement helped Ben on his return to health.We love having visitors. But there are some traditions we observe:
1. January is usually hotter than is comfortable (48°C occasionally on our back verandah). Though his year is milder than normal, cold even. (Climate change?)
2. We don't run down individual lambs or sheep or handle them unnecessarily. The stress can kill them.
3. We do not run a conventional farm stay/dude ranch. It's a messy working farm where the dogs may drag a carcass of a dead roo or ewe they might have found, onto the front lawn to devour it. (Extreme example, but do you get the picture?)
4. Hats and sunscreen.
5. We can offer modest, comfortable accommodation in our historic cottage (a double bedroom with ensuite). Kids can have fun roughing it. OR. We can also arrange accommodation in the nearby historic gold rush town of Gulgong.
6. If you play up we'll take you to the Goolma pub and introduce you to Dan Gorrie and Harold the Publican.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Michael, Louisa. and Daniel
PS. Harold the Publican with regular Dan Gorrie, who has inherited his father's corner of the bar.
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