My last week of paid work here at Nardoo - I can't believe the time has gone so quickly. Monday we mustered No1, which wasn't too bad as we'd trapped pretty much all the cattle into the trap paddock. The downside was that there was about 700 of them! We got out of the paddock ok, then they started to go in all directions, so there was a lot of chasing involved, which wouldn't have been a problem if it hadn't been for the trees first, then the ridiculously holey g...

Sorry for the lack of update last week - I'm getting slack aren't I?! That week we'd been mustering Mittigudi and Boggy paddocks, those closest to the house, and then went out to No3. The mustering went pretty well, although we had a few hairy moments in Boggy, as we had this huge mob of cattle that wouldn't move off with only 5 working men on horses, as Alan (and Billy) was effectively out of action as he was tied to Billy's horse as she was a youngster and it w...

As the saying goes out here: "Another week in the life of a ringer." And it's still all good, though hard work as ever. We spent Sunday and Monday out at No3 mustering and processing the top paddock, which we'd filled up with all the things to be got rid of from Wire Yard and Mellish. These include the little steers to be processed and weaned into the steer and bullock paddocks and the old bulls, old cows with calves and the plain crazy ones that are to...

Sorry for the lack of updates over the last couple of weeks, but we've been camped up at Mellish Park to start second round, so there's been no chance of internet access. To go back almost 3 weeks... Anne and I had a nice couple of days in town, not what you'd call particularly relaxing, but as they say, a change is as good as a rest! Anne had a doctor's appointment and I still needed to go to the bank on a day it was actually open, so the day kind of revolved a...

Two weeks news to update - all I have to do now is remember it! Last week was spent at the station as Anne had a lot of organising secretary type stuff to do before the campdraft. I spent a couple of days at the beginning of the week helping Bev around the house, feeding calves, piglets, horses, cooking, washing, you get the idea. One day Anne and I had to go out to Morella, a neighbouring station to pick up 2 of our cattle that had escaped across the fence, and...