Summer Rain – Why Some Farmers Love It, and Some Hate It.
80% of Katannings annual rainfall is supposed to fall between May and October. However, we’re starting to get more and more ‘unseasonal’ and ‘significant’ summer rainfall events [...]
Changing WA, One Rooftop at a Time
Yesterdays announcement by WA Minister for Energy The Hon Mike Nahan MLA brought high fives, big smiles and a dinnertime toast to our household last night. (https://au.gwn7.yahoo.com/w2/news/a/-/local/31297568/a-significant-shake-up-to-the-electricity-industry-video/ [...]
Milk without the Plastic. Hopefully?
Milk. Our family goes through eight litres of the stuff every week. Although I love that my family gets plenty of milk, I hate the milk bottles. [...]
A Real Live Red-Tailed Phascogale
It was a cold mid-winters day in Katanning, as we quietly went over the fence, through the bush and up to that special sheoak tree. The wool [...]
What is the Point of the Cereal Box?
Most of us do it each morning without thinking – open the cardboard cereal box, open the inner plastic liner, pour out our cereal, fold the inner [...]
Why is Katanning so salty?
A perfectly sensible question I have been asked many times over the years – a source of fascination for tourists and necessary knowledge for locals. So I [...]