Used to write more often
 
Now I've got very sporadic!
 
I live on a sheep and wheat/barley farm in Southern Australia.
 
We have two boys at home and one adult one from my first marriage living in the city.
 
I do love living where I do, but it can be different and sometimes difficult!
*10 year update:
I used to live on a farm, but it got too difficult as the man got too difficult..
So we left, I got a nearly full-time job teaching English & Maths to adults.
And now we live in a small coastal town, my two younger boys and me.
(The adult one is at uni in the city)
We love living in this town, it is quiet and safe, and 2 min. walk to the beach...
10 min walk to the school and shops, trying to buy a house in the town once the farm money is settled..
Still call myself FarmWife though...

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Update!

March 15, 2025
Bought beautiful house with lovely views - in beautiful coastal country town in Southern South Australia - with the money from the sale of my farm. Owned it for over 10 years now. The joy of owning it outright, on my own, never wears off. After some really horrible (unexpected) behaviour from my ...
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Recent Entries

  • 7 years later …
    March 14, 2025
    Wow!! 7 years later.. So much has happened!! Amazed this site is still going 🤗❤️ It kept me sane and connected socially for many years of living rural isolated.. Loved everyone I met here - and would love to reconnect ... Will write again soon .. Love from "FarmWife" (No longer anyone's wife - or...
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  • Working is ok
    April 16, 2018
    Day 1 of 5 days of 9 to 5 fill in work. Got through I think. Can't say with honesty that I did well. Bit panicky inside and dithery outside. Hopefully made a couple of sales. My darling Mr 20 came for a visit for tea. Was so nice to see him. Been too worried…
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  • Entry 2 on new site
    April 12, 2018
    I miss all my old friends on here. Actually I am missing having company. Spent the last few says trying to function with this overwhelming feeling of loneliness. I don't know where it came from but it can go away. My youngest Mr is 16 today. Love him to bits. Xx Working this evening at…
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  • Five years later….
    March 26, 2018
    property settlement 2014 - I got the better farm block - but nothing else - which meant that would have been approx even stevens with the dollar value - except as it turned out - he had sent $800k cash over to Mumbai- yes I know - told you he had lost the plot. Got…
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  • Hello my old friend
    March 25, 2018
    Hello OD Long time no see old friend How lovely my diary is restored. 😍
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  • how’s the boys?
    July 19, 2013
     when people ask me that I have to take a breath and put my emotions back in their box to answer...  because..  well..  my boys have poor health. Always have. Always will. Mr 23 has Aspergers Syndrome.. this makes life a little tricky for whoever he lives with..  not me.....
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  • hello… :)
    June 14, 2013
     brrr happily chilly here with heaters on 10 C brrr  but lovely winter rains make it worth feeling cold. Lots of green grass and less dust..  now it's mud lol. Life is quite good I guess.. Lol..  no news no change..  I didn't approach Mum directly..  but I did mildly...
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  • work uniform
    May 18, 2013
     I was giggling about what Tawhiri was imagining I wore to work as a caretaker of a Mine site..  Out Bush in Australia. And from a overseas point of view it is a pretty interesting place :)  It's 20 minutes out of town and accessed of a infrequently graded dirt track. The track goe...
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  • settlement.. not..
    May 18, 2013
     ok haven't written about this yet either.. so here goes..  The last entry I thought would happen.. It didn't.. That was mm a year ago I think..  The offer I accepted included 500 merino ewes..  Turned out that he had already sold them.. And the other 300 .. With lambs 'at foo...
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