This winter I’ve been noticing the trees have been getting shorter.  I used to be able to walk under the trees by our house with no problems.  There branches were well above my head.  Now they are nearly clothes-lining me.  I asked Moose what was wrong with the trees.  I thought maybe in Norway they [...]

Our rabbitry is in a small wooden shed.  It has no insulation and no heating but the rabbits do amazingly well even when it gets below -20 C.  We check on them every day to replenish feed and have a play.  When it is very cold we have to change water twice a day and [...]

Officially the sun rises above the horizon in Alta about the 15th of January.  But Alta is surrounded by mountains and so it isn’t for a couple more days, about the 21st or 22nd of January depending on the year, until the city can see the sun – cloudy skies can push the date back.  But [...]

Winter comes early in Norway, however, the schedules of sheep are generally a little different than for warmer countries. In Norway, before sheep go into the barn they are often sheared.  We do this in Australia in the Spring time so the sheep don’t have to suffer through a Summer with a thick wooly fleece. [...]