I can’t believe I’ll never see Zen again. I’ll never have to squeeze past him on the porch to get to the bathroom or look out the kitchen window to see him sheltering behind the wall of animal washing in our outside laundry. I worried he was cold, because he was frail...
It was in 1978 that I first heard of the indigenous Prophecy of Peace , a golden era on earth of a thousand years of peace, surpassing any other golden era in Earth’s history. I was immediately smitten with the idea, and my soul put my hand up to do whatever I could...
We made this video in 2011, after rescuing two herds of horses living wild. In the decade since we’ve been rescuing wild horses we have come to know them well. Called “destructive”, “pests” and “feral” by the current people...
This article tells of what happened to both our neighbours up the road, and to us, the day the fires hit on November 29, 2019 It wasn’t fun. Animals find sanctuary as owners tell of...
December 2019 to April 2020. Tamsin finally bought a tiny radio from Eddie the local gadget guy. The local radio was invaluable for keeping everyone in our district informed about the fires. From not bothering to listen to radio at all, we were suddenly glued to it,...
Sarah barged past me at the gate into the house yard, like she always did. She was a big sheep and often grumpy. We thought she had been grumpy ever since we weaned her into the back yard from the house. She never wanted to leave the house. She adored Tamsin and it...
The black cat stared us miserably from the paddock next to the hay shed where she had sought shelter. It was raining and cold in the middle of winter and my heart went out to her. She walked into the trap with food, but that’s when we saw the kitten. The kitten who...
Drought, fires, heatwaves, wild dust storms, flash flooding, pandemic and now the threat of 1080 poison from the Government bait drops into the fire grounds… it’s been several months of survival mode, doing everything we can to keep the animals of A Place...
RIOT ACT did an article about my concerns about 1080 poisoning near our property. After dealing with bushfires, a flood and a drought, the owner of an animal sanctuary near Braidwood has raised her “extreme distress” about the use of poisonous 1080 baits one kilometre...
According to National Geographic, the global average surface temperature has seen a significant increase of more than 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 0.9 degrees Celsius since 1906. This is evidenced by the shifting precipitation patterns and melting sea ice and...
