Agricultural Travel to Ireland, Scotland, Wales & England

April 30th, 2013

Anyone like to come with Kerry Moss and I on a Quadrant Agricultural Tour to the British Isles?  We’ll be zig-zagging over farms and memorable sites in Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales, for almost a whole month in August/September 2013. This farm tour includes visits to a range of beef, dairy, sheep and cropping farms [...]

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Business operating hours – Future Dates Away-office closures

March 28th, 2013

You receive personal service because this is a one-person show.  Unfortunately this does mean that when I am away, the office is closed.  But this is only a small percentage of each year. The next dates when the office will be closed are: 28th March to 20th April (office reopens 21st April); Trip through Western Qld, [...]

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Twitter policy – Following & Followers

February 27th, 2013

This is part of a series on “Social Media and Farmers” (Twitter & LinkedIn – for bushies). I’ve written down the basic policy I figured out via trial & terror, as it contains points other social media users might like to think about too. My twitter policy regarding who I follow, and managing followers: I [...]

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Ordering Christmas gifts

December 16th, 2012

There IS still time to order books and have them delivered to you or the gift recipient before Christmas, within Australia, but only just! The books ‘A Million Acre Masterpiece’ and ‘Life as an Australian Horseman’ are ideal gifts for anyone interested in the Australian outback, bush, vast cattle stations, horses, chopper mustering, roadtrains etc.  [...]

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Social media accounts, mobile version of the Fiona Lake website & outback photos online

August 7th, 2012

Links to social media pages have been added to the website to make them easier to find.  Unless you have the exact address, finding  someone’s social media account can be difficult via Google because there’s so many people, worldwide, sharing the same name. And the Twitter search facility is close to useless, even failing when [...]

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ABC radio interview with Jacquie Mackay

May 29th, 2012

Jacquie Mackay, from ABC Capricornia (Rockhampton), interviewed me at Beef Week this year.  Many people must have heard the interview on air because so many mentioned it when coming past my stand – but if you missed it, the radio interview can be heard online on the ABC Capricornia website. I’ve been fortunate to have [...]

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Rocky’s Beef Week, May 2012

April 6th, 2012

Only a month to go until Rockhampton’s triennial Beef Week Exposition, running from 7th to the 12th of May, 2012. I’ll be there again this year, in the Walter Pearce Pavilion at tradefair stand number 45.  This year, not far from the restaurant – so I’ll be able to smell food, even though I won’t [...]

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Phone problems & the NBN

March 23rd, 2012

Please note that our phone has not been working properly since Saturday 17th March (we can ring out, most of the time, but callers trying to ring us either get just a dial tone, crackling or other sounds – it doesn’t even go to Messagebank, which is a first). Telstra says the deadline for repair [...]

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AACo – Corella Lake on Brunette Downs

March 17th, 2012

It was nice to open up the  Townsville Bulletin today and see David Farley, CEO of the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo).  Because he is standing in front of one of my aerial photographs of Corella Lake, one of the large freshwater lakes on the AAco’s blue-ribbon cattle station in the Northern Territory, Brunette Downs. The [...]

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Fiona Lake on Twitter – FionaLakeAus

March 6th, 2012

Despite not posting any Twitter messages I started collecting Twitter followers, so thought I’d better send out the occasional tweet.  Follow my occasional twitter messages @ FionaLakeAus (the world is full of people called Fiona Lake). What inspired this sudden enthusiasm?  One of my LinkedIn contacts sent a tweet about a possum that broke into [...]

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