After putting a cob plaster coating on the lower earthbag walls, I lined the ceiling with the same hessian I’d used in my stealth camper....

We’re making a few changes around the garden and sheds for my new workshop space and I’m turning an old hut into the new chook house,...

After several trips with the little beast, I figured it could ride better. The inside is cozy and dry and everything works well as a...

We’d just dropped a 17m high holly tree at a friend’s property. The massive trunk split in two when it thumped into the ground and...

"Where's Sticky?" The missus asked. Well, here's Sticky's little niece or distant cousin. Colour does seem to indicate familial...

My god, look at that hair. This is a dusty EK Holden I found in a shed out in western NSW. The engine was seized because someone did an...

Off-grid and off-line, I was on the maiden voyage having towed the stealth camper to a bushland reserve. Parked up with the canine...

Sleet and rain. Well, I'd always said I'd be satisfied the pod was watertight once I'd driven at 90 kph in a torrential downpour, and the...

So far so good, the exterior shell seems watertight, Time to make the inside cosy. On the floor I used lightweight foam flooring squares...

Sometimes, you just have to get away, and when I go, I like to get isolated. The car isn't very comfortable to sleep in, so, I figured...

The engine had a slight miss at idle and it was getting decidedly lumpy. I did some preliminary checks and narrowed the miss down to No 3...

A bit of spit and polish was called for this week as I was chauffeuring the missus and one of the grande dames of NZ ceramics to the NZ...

Bit of a mission actually getting them on the hubs though. First problem, the front wheels were hitting the tie-rod ends so I had to...

"...using their short beaks to pierce the base of a flower and access the nectar."

"...having forgotten that you previously sprayed another vehicle black..."

My dog Sophie rode down inside my leather jacket as a pup,

I once owned a 1964 metallic blue XM Ford 4-door sedan, like the one in the image above by Ben Hosking, They're a bit harder to come by...

When the car was finished I drove 1,375 kms from Sydney to Adelaide with my dog Sophie for the Grand Prix .