That Octopus

It's Thai style octopus at the farm tonight. So delicious words fail me.

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Tyra Banks (solemn, fringe straightened to perfection, endless eyelashes blinking very slowly): I have, two, beautiful, girls, in front of me. But I have only, one, photo, in my hands. Josephine, you have great features but the judges are questioning your level of commitment. If you want to be a model you have to overcome your fear of height. Marie, your legs are short and your skin needs to be sorted out, but we see a lot of potential in you. This photo shoes how much one can achieve with hard work. Congratulations Marie, you are still in the running to become Australia's next top model. (Tyra hands out photo - tears, tear, tears etc...)

What a laugh. How many times can we use this same joke without getting tired of it? Endlessly!

The (soon to be) winter studio

This is another room under construction / elaboration at the farm. A studio to be used in winter time.

Hello Kitty :-)

If there is such a thing as object poetry, this place is loaded with it!

A stroll along the beach at Port Willunga

The wood oven

In use almost every day, I believe the wood oven is one of the secrets of the great food at the farm. Fast roasting, slow cooking, it's the chef's choice and it always comes out delicious. This has made me more than hungry now...

Tuna Sashimi

AAART

This is another studio/study at the farm. The AAART letters are bright red, sorry this had to be in black and white. The bucket is hanging there to collect drops of rain. Eeedie hasn't put enough slope to the roof when she built it so the water tends to stay there. The bucket is bright blue. Hmmm, maybe I should have left the colours....

Anticlimax

All this grapefruit squeezing has taken its toll. Geez, look at this disaster. Clearly overworked, underfed, underslept and undershampooed. Those girls have ruined me!

:-))

Ruby Tequila

Tequila with ruby grapefruit is the girls' favourite drink. To be quite honest Henny lured me to the farm with the promise of ruby tequilas. I'm only half kidding and this is almost half true.

Ruby tequila is hard work, though. One needs to squeeze the juice out of those grapefruits. And then I suddenly understood why they needed me at the farm: to work!! To squeeze and squeeze and squeeze.

I think this is my favourite photo of the whole Australia batch. I look so exhausted :-)) Look at Eeedie's angry face, and the intensity of Henny's whip! She really means it!! 

Very funny.

Beautifully ruby. The reward at last.

There were several bottles of extremely different prices and I thought the girls should go through a blind test so that they can buy the best value in the future. Very thoughtful of me :-))

Experts. They got it almost right.

How to draw a bunny. Don't even think of asking what that was all about :-))

The Booze Shrine

Henny found this outside I think, I can't remember exactly where it was (in a street downtown? Around the property?). NOT that I was drunk! I think we tried to fiddle with it for a while, and then we thought oh well, we're staying in anyway. Party safe it is.

Living in Japan, I have seen hundreds of shrines, dedicated to hundreds of what not. But this one at the farm is by far the best one :-))

Before Dark

Cooking with E

Eedie looooves to cook. Every day during our field trips she couln't wwwwwait to get back to the farm and start cooking :-)) And neither could we, 'cause we loooove her food.

This is the "outdoor kitchen".

Drinks served at

Counter saloon bar prices