I might be a city boy born and raised, and a long-term denizen of the inner-city if the truth be told, but the occasional weekend of country-style fresh air, sunshine and wide open spaces is as important to my continued sanity as being with my darling girl, Pammy, almost all the time.
Almost? Yep, left her behind in the Big Smoke (she was off to the Sydney Opera House for a big Sing-Sing anyway) and I headed down south, and up into the hills, to visit my old mate Fraser at his lovely property close to the charming, historic and steadily reviving town of Taralga, on NSW's Southern Tablelands, pop. 312.
You simply cannot build a heritage-listed clothesline like this. It takes years for it to happen, for the timbers to go grey, the lines to sag wonkily, and the posts to lean over a bit. |
Somewhere on the front of the old stone house there's a sign saying 'Rose Cottage' and they have some very old established rose bushes and climbers to prove it. |
Right now you could rename the joint 'Anemone Madness' and no-one would disagree, but of course that's not as nice as Rose Cottage, is it? |
And so I'm back with my lovely girl Pammy now in our pretty little inner-city cubby house, which is the natural order of things. But after a weekend in the country I feel like I've blown a whole ceiling full of cobwebs out of my head. Taralga, you've done it again!
3 comments:
Love this post! Next time you're heading to your mate at Taralga you must let me know. Our farm is on the other side of Crookwell (closer to Bigga). God's own. x
OK Caro, I'll remember that! I got part-way there to your place on Sunday, trundling down a few dirt roads purely to have a (light) beer at the Laggan Pub. You're right about the God's own bit, too. Wasn't the weather perfect last weekend, and the countryside looked a perfect picture.
Love the washing line
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