Welcome

G'day. This is the first posting for Highland Way Herbs so I better explain what we are. "WE" are Anne Pidcock and David Johnson and we run (erratically and sporadically) a small herb nursery in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. It is Spring here, with beautiful blue skies and warm sunshine and we have just had a week of steady rain. The plants are leaping out of the ground (and bursting out of their pots!) and everything is green, so green. After so many years of drought it is unbelievable how green everything is. New leaves budding on the trees are competing with each other to produce more and more vibrant shades of green. You only have to stick a twig in the soil and it seems to sprout roots overnight. Everything is teeming with an incredible life force.

The wombats that live under the house are grazing on the grass in the backyard at night and keeping it beautifully manicured but everywhere else the grass is leaping for the sky. I should add, by way of explanation, that we live on 47 acres not far from the small village of Penrose and not in a big city or town. Hence the wombats. We'd really rather that they DIDN'T live under the house (having a wombat scratching itself on the floorboards under your bed at 4 am can be a rude awakening) but as they appear to be a mother and baby and never come out at the same time it has proved impossible to board up their burrow. They have another burrow in a grove of laurel trees and probably several others as well (wombats need several "bolt holes" in case they get caught out at night and need to take a dive) so boarding up their burrow under the house won't make them homeless. More on that later perhaps. For now I just thought I'd have a go at writing a blog and see how it goes. That's all for now.

Picture at right is of the baby wombat that lives under the house.