Road Ends WWOOF

Road Ends WWOOF/Help Xchange

Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith - that's us - live on a property called Road Ends in Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, Australia. We regularly have WWOOFers ("Willing Workers On Organic Farms") and HelpXers - mostly young, mostly from overseas - to stay.

This page contains information for WWOOFers/HelpXers thinking of coming here as well as a collection of some of the things (the nice things!) that WWOOFers/HelpXers have written in our WWOOF book.

Us
We are a couple of old (early 60s) twin brothers working together on various projects (songs, cantatas, operas, videos, audio-visual pieces etc).

Peter, who was Professor
of Constitutional Law
at the University of Hong Kong
when he resigned in 1999,
writes the words.
Peter Wesley-Smith
Martin, who used to be Director
of the Electronic Music Studio
at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music,
provides the music.
That's him on the left,
with Jarrah

Martin Wesley-Smith

We also put on concerts, film nights etc, mainly to raise money for projects in East Timor through local group The Kangaroo Valley-Remexio Partnership. One coming up is The Sixth Annual Kangaroo Valley Buster Keaton Silent Movie Festival (for information on last year's festival, click here); last year saw a concert by soprano Annalisa Kerrigan, with Jennifer Hoy (violin) and Genevieve Lang (harp) (details here). Last January we put on SHE (Seven Harp Ensemble): seven women playing seven concert harps. Between these and other projects we look after the beautiful property on which we are privileged to live.
If you are uncomfortable living with two men, please WWOOF/HelpX elsewhere ....
telephone: [61] (0)2 4465 1299; e: Martin, Peter; www: Martin, Peter; Martin's blog; snail: PO Box 6159 Kangaroo Valley NSW 2577 Australia
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Road Ends

The dam paddock,
next to the house,
in early spring

"Road Ends" was the sign on the gate when we arrived here, so rather than pay for a new sign we decided to call the property that. It's where the road ends, where all roads end, a beautiful, quiet, peaceful haven, a respite from the worries of the world, a garden of Eden that if it had broadband, and didn't have leeches, ticks and snakes, would truly be called Paradise!
Road Ends is 172 acres of, mostly, heavily-wooded steep hillside. We currently have two horses (Jarrah and Macca), a donkey (Wally), two ducks, a gander, a young sheep (Popocatepetl) and a dog (Flash). We have a garden, but cannot be called a "farm". We try to do things organically wherever possible.
WWOOF/HelpXers generally work for 4-6 hours per day in return for bed and board. We try to offer a range of work options, which might include clearing lantana (an environmental woody weed), weeding, gardening, collecting horse shit, feeding the animals, domestic work, bottling beer, cooking ... and so on.
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Kangaroo Valley
Beautiful part of the world ... blah blah .... [more to come]
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how to get here
If coming from Sydney, probably the best way is to catch a train from Central Station to Bomaderry (Nowra) on the South Coast line. For the timetable, click here. Locate "Central to Bomaderry (Nowra) or Port Kembla" then click WD if you want to travel on a weekday or WE if you want to travel on a weekend. Note that you will be required to change trains, usually at either Dapto or Kiama. Call us and let us know what time your train will arrive - one of us will pick you up at Bomaderry (Nowra) station. Sit on the left of the train (better view).
There are also bus services from Sydney and other places. If you are driving, call [02 4465 1299] or email for detailed directions.
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news
July 6 2008: We've had Hong Kong WWOOFers Alex (boy) and Vivian (girl) here. They have been replaced by two more Hong Kong WWOOFers: Jen and Nicky. Alex'n'Viv wrote: "to 'Shela': You are the most beautiful, charming, attractive lady that we have ever seen! Peter and Martin are so bloody lucky to be your son! You warm our heart in those cold nights. Australia is a damn beautiful place, but not as beautiful as your smiles!"

June 24 2008: Today Alice and Yien from Hong Kong arrived to WWOOF for a few days. Their first dinner here was one for twelve people: themselves plus we three (Martin, Peter and Sheila), a couple of Kangaroo Valley friends, three members of the percussion group Synergy, sound designer Bob Scott and European percussionist Fritz Hauser (the musicians have been at Bundanon - an artists' residence near here - preparing for a concert in Sydney on this coming Friday and Saturday nights).
Good news: as far as we can tell, Wally has now completely recovered from the problem with his hoof. Go Wally!
Have just come across this shot (left) of Swedish WWOOFer and Facebook friend Anneli, who was here with fellow Swedish WWOOFer Lillemor in 2004. I wrote on her wall. She replied: "Lilli and me actually talked quite recently about our stay at your wonderful place. How we got to drink homebrewed beer, fantastic dinners and how much fun we had together. :) Friends like to hear that we stayed with real aussies and not just at hostels. :)" And she told us that she's about to become a Mum for the first time. Go Anneli!
Angela and Nicky, writing in our WWOOFer book (excerpts): "To: Wesley-Smith family, Peter, Martin, Sheila, Flash ... We love you! And we love Kangaroo Valley ... It is a fantastic time to stay here with you in your lovely place. We hope you would enjoy the Chinese dishes & we love the Aus dishes cooked by you ..."

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from the WWOOFer book: Alex | Anne & Danni | Daniel'n'Marianne | Donna & Tanya | Friday | Mun | Wendee

June 8 2008: It's winter time here, and cold - we've not had a lot of WWOOFers looking for somewhere to stay (although we're currently hosting Angela and Nicky from Hong Kong).
For those who know and love Wally, our donkey, the bad news is that he's not well at the moment, requiring daily shots of penicillin and doses of painkillers for his left rear hoof, which appears to have foundered. The good news is that he's likely to recover, but only after a period of forced exercise and a severely applied diet ... later: He's a lot better today (June 12), and is able to walk (well, hobble). Foundering can be caused by being too fat, so we've put him in a pen to try to limit his food intake. He's not, as you can imagine, happy about this: loud hee-haws are regularly resounding through the valley ... poor old Wally ...
Peter and Martin were both recently in Hong Kong, Peter to attend the premiere production of his play Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong and Martin to provide music and audio-visual sequences for it. It went well. We're both preparing for a concert we're putting on in Kangaroo Valley Hall on June 27 featuring vocal jazz quartet The Idea of North (for details, see www.wesley-smith.info/TION.html).
We recently heard from WWOOFer Denise, who wrote "I have just thought about you and so I am writing you a little email to see whats going on in Kangaroo Valley." Nice. Look left: here she is with boyfriend Marc on the back of a camel in Dubai.

January 8 2008: This - left - is part of a Christmas card received from Marianne & Daniel, lovely Swedish WWOOFers. Marianne sent us the sheet music of Gabriella's Song, which will be performed at a concert (seven harpists!) in Kangaroo Valley that Martin is currently organising. later: the concert, and the song, was a great success. The harp ensemble (SHE) subsequently toured to Canberra, Temora and Narrandera, with a repertoire that included the song and a piece Peter and Martin wrote for them called Seven Widows at the Gates of Sugamo.
We've recently received other cards and emails, including one from Danish WWOOFer Louise, who at 23 describes herself as "old"! Now a medical student, she was here four years ago with her friend Rebekka, who is studying to become a "health care analyser" - someone who looks at general health issues such as the "development of fatness in society". We wish she would look at the "development of canine fatness in Kangaroo Valley", with particular reference to Flash, whose figure these days is a little on the portly side ...

December 31 2007: Have just received the photo on the left from French WWOOFers Franck & Robin. Left to right: Franck, Head WWOOFer Sheila, Robin, Martin & Peter.
While they were here, Franck & Robin met German WWOOFer Louisa, who was WWOOFing somewhere else in Kangaroo Valley. She came over for dinner. Next night, she invited them for dinner. Now they're hanging out together, with several of Louisa's girlfriends, in Sydney. Looks like they're gonna have a very happy new year!
We had a lovely Christmas here with Martin's kids Jed, Olivia & Alice, Jed's wife Sally and their kids Oskar & Bassy, Alice's boyfriend David, Martin's ex-wife Ann, and German WWOOFer Melanie, who wrote (extracts):

After a very bad experience in wwoofing ... I was very excited about what kind of people you could be and I was a little bit afraid BUT it was the very best thing I could do. I'd never thought that my Christmas in Australia would be the best I've had since years! ... The Christmas days with the Family were AMAZING! ...

It's currently hot here. On days like today we work just early mornings and late afternoons ...

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from the WWOOFer book: Alex | Anne & Danni | Daniel'n'Marianne | Donna & Tanya | Friday | Mun | Wendee

December 20 2007: We've had not one, not two, not even three but FOUR French WWOOfers here recently. In ten years we only ever had two; then suddenly we had four all at the same time. It has been a delight having them. First there were Chloe and Yannick (pictured left), then we added Franck and Robin. All good workers, all great fun. MORE PLEASE!
Have just received an electronic Christmas card from German WWOOFer Denise:

Dear Peter and Martin,
I wish you with all my heart a merry, merry christmas and a happy new year!!
I hope you are both well and still satisfied and happy in sweet kangaroo valley? I often think about my time with you and then I start watching all my pictures and get sentimental... :-(
.......
I am looking to hear from you both!!!
Many hugs and lots of love to both of you!!! I miss you!!!

A happy Christmas and new year to Denise and all our WWOOFers. It has been pure pleasure working with and getting to know every one of you!

December 01 2007: We currently have here our first WWOOFer for months: Shellen from Taiwan (that's her on the left). She has been working in the garden as well as cooking us some delicious Taiwanese meals. She's an excellent worker and a delightful person.
Our old Mum, Sheila, is now living with us, which has cut down the accommodation we have for WWOOFers - but we're building an extension to the house, so in a few months' time we'll have plenty of room again.
Martin recently put on the Fifth Annual Kangaroo Valley Buster Keaton Silent Movie Festival, which was a great success. We're now starting work on a concert on January 27 2008 by an ensemble of seven female harpists! See here.
A friend of ours, Bloss, who is the mother of Nick, the tenor in the fabulous vocal quartet The Idea of North, told me the other day that the group recently did a concert in Leipzig. Nick chatted to a woman who was working with a local a cappella group called Armacord. She said she'd once been to Australia and stayed in Kangaroo Valley. "I know a couple of people who live there," said Nick, "- name of Wesley-Smith". "They're the people I stayed with!", she said. Small world, huh? That's her - Anna-Lena Rodewald - on the right.
In the past week or so we've had over seven inches of rain! The dam and the tanks are full, and everything's growing like crazy. What's more, last night Australian voters threw out the ruling Liberal Party-National Party Coalition that has been led by Prime Minister John Howard for the past 11 1/2 years - it has been a good week ....

Anna-Lena in 2001

July 27 2007: No WWOOFer news! We haven't had any helpers here for several months now, partly because there have not been very many around due to the cold weather and partly because we've both been too busy to be able to look after them. Peter left this morning for a couple of days in Hong Kong before going on to London to spend a couple of weeks in the Public Records Office doing some research. Martin was in Perth doing some concerts, including a major retrospective of his political works (some - e.g. Quito - with words by Peter). On his way back he stopped off in Adelaide to help our old Mum Sheila as she prepares to pack up the old family home and move over here to live with us. The animals are all well. Martin's daughter Olivia is currently living here. He has several fundraising concerts coming up, including one with the Musical Director of Hamburg Opera, Simone Young (an ex-student of his). Plans are being made for the final movie in the Dirty Dan trilogy, to have its glittering première on October 27 ....

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from the WWOOFer book: Alex | Anne & Danni | Daniel'n'Marianne | Donna & Tanya | Friday | Mun | Wendee

April 6 2007: Have been scanning photos ... here are some favourite WWOOFers from the past:

German WWOOFer Philipp

French WWOOFer Mirrie

Bavarian WWOOFer Chris

German WWOOFer Maren

April 5 2007: and some recent ones:

German WWOOFer Charlotte

Hong Kong WWOOFers Janis, Katie, Olivia & Wing, with Peter

Danish WWOOFer Julie

Japanese WWOOFer Shoko

March 14 2007: Introducing ... JANET, FIFI and WALLY:

Janet is a male alpaca who arrived last Monday. How come he has a girl's name, then? We don't know! It's the name he was given when he was just a little alpaca. Fifi is a young Kelpie bitch who turned up just before Christmas, skinny and hungry after having lived in the bush for weeks, possibly longer. She's now officially ours. She rounds up Janet, who then chases her away. [later: tragically, at the beginning of May 2007, Fifi died from tick bites. She had been a much-adored member of the Road Ends community.] Wally? Well, Wally's just Wally. He's the little guy who keeps getting pushed around by Janet and the horses but who keeps coming back for more. When Janet gets the shits with him, and spits at him, Wally stands there, blinking, great green globs of gooze sliding down his face ...

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from the WWOOFer book: Alex | Anne & Danni | Daniel'n'Marianne | Donna & Tanya | Friday | Mun | Wendee

March 8 2007: Recently a few WWOOFers have arranged to come here but haven't shown up - NOT GOOD! Very off-pissing ...
Fifi has been de-sexed, de-wormed etc and is now a permanent member of the household. And we're just about to take delivery of an alpaca!
A few weeks ago, most of New South Wales was in drought. Even Kangaroo Valley, which in most droughts is a green oasis, was starting to look brown and bare. But then: RAIN! In the last month we've had over 500mm (about twenty inches). Dams and tanks are full, and the creeks are flowing ... beautiful!

February 1 2007: We've had some lovely WWOOFers lately. One of them, Alexandra Höhr, from Germany, sang in the choir for a local Australia Day concert! The concert, which we produced, which featured soprano, choir, harp & violin, and which raised money for projects in East Timor, was a great success in every way. Alexandra wrote: "It was so awesome that I was able to sing in the choir because you know 'Music was my first love'. The concert was amazing. Something I never ever thought of when I came here to work on the 'farm'. I met so many interesting and friendly people in the valley that makes it even harder to leave and step into something uncertain ..." [read more here]
Just before Christmas a new dog, Fifi, arrived. She's still a puppy, so is still into biting and chewing things, but she's pretty adorable and very popular with guests.

January 14 2007: Martin's busy organising a concert in Kangaroo Valley Hall on January 26 (Australia Day) and rehearsing a choir that will be singing his arrangement of Eric Bogle's classic Australian song And the Band Played "Waltzing Matilda". For information, click here.

December 19 2006: Received a Christmas card from Austrian WWOOFers Hanna and Suki, featuring this photo:

"It's been two years now since we were in Australia,
but we still remember the good times we had."

December 5 2006: American WWOOFer Amy wrote (December 3 2006) to say that she is now back in the States after working in England:

I ... have learned one major lesson traveling around the world ...
It's not WHERE you are, it's WHO you're with.
And my friends, I was with some amazing people in the little village of Woodstock, England.
People who have made me proud of the human race, and more hopeful for it.
Beautiful people so comical and caring my jaw needs to be rewired from all the laughing and smiles ...

November 20 2006: Peter was recently in Europe and South East Asia, where he renewed his acquaintance with several WWOOFers in Berlin, Hamburg, Florence and Hong Kong, including:

WWOOFer Shane in Florence, Sept 2006

WWOOFer Karolina in Hong Kong, Oct 2006
November 20 2006: A couple of changes to the animal population: our remaining gander is now living happily with half a dozen other geese at the other end of the road. And Popocatepetl, or Pop or Popo for short, has gone back to the farm from which she came - she's now gradually getting used to the fact that she's not a dog and can sleep no more on a couch on a verandah but must sleep in a paddock, like other sheep ...
Recent WWOOFers have included 20-y-o Charlotte from Germany and 26-y-o Asako from Japan.
October 3 2006: Anyone who keeps animals one must get used to the fact that every now and then a favourite animal is going to die. We regularly lose ducks and geese to foxes despite our efforts to keep them safe. A couple of months ago we found our old horse Fargo lying on the track, dead. This was sad, but he was 37 years old, which is longer than horses normally live, so it was easy enough to accept. Not so easy was the recent death of Fidie, a beautiful "Australian Shepherd" bitch, who apparently ate something vile that caused an infection that started closing down her body systems. She was eight years old, so was deprived of several good happy years. One of our last two ganders died recently, too, apparently after discovering its head and its neck no longer connected, which occurred not long after it had killed one of our ducks ...
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from our WWOOFer/HelpXer book:

from Anne, from Germany, received August 9 2007:

a donkey which thinks it's a horse ...

Hey mates,

finally the time has come, to leave the wonderful country Australia. But not just my backpack is full of stuff, my mind is full with great memories from my 11 month in OZ. This email is to thank all you guys for giving me this great laughs, drinking nights and a little fun at work - as far as someone can have fun during Cheesing, Picking or Pruning...

Let's start at the beginning. Thanks to Martin, you made my first week in OZ very enjoyable, my first wwoofing farm, with a sheep which thinks it's a dog, a donkey which thinks it's a horse and all these other lovely animals. Even that i didn't see Kangaroos in Kangaroo Valley (excepted on my dinner plat, of course), it was a fantastic week or so with you and Flash, thanks for being so polite with my english and showing me around in the nature (thanks for the Wombat safari :-) )

My 2nd wwoofing farm was also great, even if i still don't like olives, did i have a fantastic time and enjoyed working with you guys. I saw my first kangaroo (i mean my first 100 or 1000 kangaroos) and had my first Aussie barbie! Grampians a wonderful place to live and you can find everything just around the corner (haha).

With a strange tourguide and a fantastic group was it time for me to go on an Outbacktour, threw the middle of nowhere. Without real showers, a vehicle which broke down, sleeping in swags, far to much kangaroo bone collecting and walking and climbing. But all in all a great experience, which i will never, ever forget. A big kiss to my A-team...

But after a couple of month spending a lot of money, was it time, to work. I came to the Fruitshack, after a big shock did i recover the meaning from the endless messages on the toiletwalls. I found "heaven" on earth. I mean OK, i could have missed the Cheese factory, but now i know, what it means to hurry up!#?

Where i had the "heaven" on earth in Leeton, did i find the "hell" on earth in Mildura. Probably the worst place i ever stayed in. But after we screwed Vicky and Russel, we had a good time in our fantastic Caravan park with a clean kitchen and a fridge which worked. Picking grapes is probably not my favorite job and i still got difficulties, to see the difference between red and green, but who cares?!?

In Harvey, on the other side of OZ was it time, to bulit the straightest Sheep fence, sheeps (and Graham) ever saw. Here i learned to drive a traktor and worked in the smelliest place ever (never ever ever ever ever smell rotten onions (it's even worse than cheese)). It was a long time that someone said KID to me, but Barb was like a mother to us, wasn't she?!?

Now i reallly got the fealing, i just worked in Australia, but yeah, after a few problems with our car, good bless it, was money short and we reenterd the Fruitshack family. Even with different people and different weather (fuck was it cold) the fruitshack spirit was still alive... And i enjoyed it, not for a long time, but a good time...

Finally to my little sunshine Marion. Who, cared and travelled with me nearly the whole time and didn't kill me (even though you killed the car...) thanks for making me laugh and drink! My trip wouldn't have been that much fun without you and your great Aussie accent.

And all the other guys whom i met on the way. Thanks for all the good memories!!!!!

OK, before i start crying, hope i'll see you all again some time, in OZ, Germany or where ever in the world you are. If you come to Germany your welcome to drop me a line. You know, i live near Frankfurt, the city with the big airport. And don't forget the Oktoberfest '07!!!!!!!!

Lots of love and hugs

Anne
XXX

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from Alexandra Höhr (nearly 21), from Germany, 2007:

Alex's Road Ends slide show

excerpts:

Well, Peter & Martin it's "time to say Good-Bye" after 12 days in Kangaroo Valley which should be renamed into Wombat Valley. It was a very spontaneous idea to come here but I am glad I did it and I am happy that it worked out.

Thankx so much for having me here.

Thanx for the delicious meals and "the best ice-cream in the world"

"Thank you for the music"
and thank you 4 everything I cannot think of right now.

I thought you were a gay couple

When I first read in the Wwoofing Book your names I thought you were a gay-couple and I wouldn't have to worry about anything. As it seem so I was wrong about the gay-part.

"The [first] morning I w[o]ke up, before I put on my make-up" I went weeding on the road and I was a lonely wwoofer. But the next day after we saw the movie "As It Is In Heaven" we picked up Jan and we were making beer the next day just before Peter picked up the two Korean girls Bum Hee & Sook Yeung ... Even on Sunday we had to work! ... We went weeding at the hill and it was so hot that we were melting "like ice in the sunshine" ... And then Peter made Jan very happy bt telling us we were going to the beach (Jan was dreaming of that since she arrived) We all enjoyed the beach trip because "Girls just wanna have fun". I got quiete scared when I saw this Stingray laying on the ocean ground though! and in world record time I was out of the water again. Glad we found Fifi again ...

That night our two Koreans were cooking for the first time and their kimbab look way better than my attempt of a pavelover ... Unfortunately Bum Hee and Sook Yeong had to go back to Sydney and so they missed out on the Chinese Dinner and Jan's Birthday on the 24th (she got 24) and we had everything that you need for a good Birthday Party: baloons, candels, cheesecake & lasagne. The next day I was a lonely Wwoofer again but with the mission to save the concert on Friday. It was so awesome that I was able to sing in the choir because you know "Music was my first love". The concert was amazing. Something I never ever thought of when I came here to work on the "farm". I met so many interesting and friendly people in the valley that makes it even harder to leave and step into something uncertain ...

Peter: Thanks for letting me be lazy and go to the beach with Olivia and Jack.
I think it was quiete funny that you asked me if there was something you had to buy.
PS: and I do think you look like a professor.

Flash: Thank you for protecting me from Fifi and from those mean dogs in TV - didn't matter if they were real dogs or cartoon dogs.

Fifi!: Thanks for being so entertaining, bvut you really should stop jumping at, biting and licking people ...

I hope you will got a lot of wwoofers especially in the colder months so they can work more. I also hope we stay in touch and that one or even both come and visit me in Heidelberg!

PS: Do I get onto the wwoofer page now? [NO (Editor)]

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from Anne (20) and Danni (19), both from Germany, 2006:

Thank you for the great time here in the middle of "nowhere", with so much fun, great nature, crazy animals and beautiful birds.

Every day you cooked us delicious meals - especially the nettle soup with own-picked-up nettles!

We want to thank Flash for protecting us against the unfriendly, moan gander. Popo, the sheep, who thinks she is a dog, maked us every time smiling. She was the biggest challenge for us, because she didn't want her bottle milk from us. Only with tricks and much patience we could convience her to take one bottle from us.

Every dinner it was funny to us the pepper and salt celler. Especially Bolly was fascinated about it. About Bolly we have to say that he seemed like a absentminded Professor. But he is a very great guy, who makes us laughing every time. With his attemptions to speak German and his knowledge about old German musicers whose names we never heard before.

Martin, it was always interesting to listen to your stories and knowledge about Kangaroo Valley (without kangaroos), the nature, animals like leeches, ticks, spiders, snakes and all the other animals which lives in Kangaroo Valley. It is a great thing to WWOOF on your farm, which we would recommend to all other WWOOFers!

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from Donna and Tanya, both about 19, from Germany, 2006:

... never been so well fed in our lives
We want to say a big THANK YOU for letting us come and stay with you in your beautiful house! It was lovely getting to know you, your dogs, your sheep, your horses & your goose. As well as the company, the food was excellent. We have never been so well fed in our lives.
We thoroughly enjoyed the weeding & the planting as well as pickling & the beer making.
Good luck with the mulching & the film trilogy.
Thanks again.
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from Wendee, early 20s, from Hong Kong, 2006:

happy + unforgettable time
THANK YOU very much for giving me a chance to be here for 11 days. This is a happy + unforgettable time to stay in Kangaroo Valley (such as pickin' grapes + my shoes are full of leeches + re-new verandah & fertilizating plants etc ...) And I'm very glad to meet Tricky Sheila (I love her dessert rhumbara) + Smart Rob (well ... he asked me to call him like this ... haha)
All of U are very nice to me ... as I'm a good girl who loves HOT WATER instead of wine ....
Happy + Funny + Warm = Wesley-Smith Family
Wish all of U including Flash + Fidi) have a wonderful life in the future ... and I really enjoyed the days in Australia, so if one day I come back again, please don't reject me ... or if you come to HK remember to find me ... I'm sure I can introduce many girls to U ... as Sheila wants more grandchildren ... (hehe ...)
Wishing Sheila has a happi 90 yrs Birthday and Flash ... get well soon!!!
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from Daniel and Marianne, mid 20s, from Sweden, 2006:
Just about to leave your beautiful place and the amazing hospitality you two have given us.
You are two men with enormous hearts and minds. It has been a pleasure to see your impressive works and projects as well as having the daily conversations about the problems of the world today.
Too bad that we didn't have more time to spend together. It would have been great to be able to help you out a bit more and cook more VEGAN dinners for you ...
VIVA EAST TIMOR!
Best wishes with everything.
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from Mun, early 20s, from South Korea, 2006:
Thank you ...
You give me beautiful memories and experience. Many thing was my first time, you know, pelican, wombat, concert, sedition, kangaroo meat, making beer, and cooking "DAK JIM". It was sad that I can't understand what you said. So I'll be back for it. Could you wait for me?
take care ... bye ... see you again ...
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from Friday, early 20s, from Hong Kong, 2006:

Find Me A Cute GUY! For God sake!
Well ... it's me again. I keep writing in this wwoof book again. The cheeky Hong Kong girl comes back for cute guys. However, what she saw in this two weeks were Peter, Martin, flash, Fidi, and Peter, Martin, flash, Fidi etc. There is no cute guys at all ... (you've only got me a Japanese girl! Although she is nice, japanese boy is also nice) I know that Peter and Martin think that they are cute enough for me ... (well, don't think too much .... Let's jump to another topic). There are a few remarkable events. First of all, I need to mention about the BLUE CHEESE problems. As I think you guys know what I'm talking about ... so you know ... ha ha I'm quite happy to throw all your stuff in the fridge (Martin ... pls don't buy too much before you check the Blue Cheese Fridge. Peter! Stop him!!)
Second, thanks for turning me into an alcoholic. It was terrible to get drunk ... But the problem is I start drinking again on the next day.
Third, the Tennis Brain Wash is successful. I can't believe I kept watching tennis until 1:00am (although I know nothing about tennis, but I really enjoy that ...).
Fourth, thanks for giving me a Men from Mars-Women from Venus workshop. I've known more about this affairs which hopefully helps me to find a cute guy in the future.
Fifth, I'll always remember the "Friday's Path" in your backyard. Also the "Min & Friday's Rock" ...
Sixth, I met a lot of incredible people who are all really nice (some are with long legs ... good body shape ...)
Seventh, there is no doubt that I'm fatter than before ... That is all you guys' fault!!! (ice cream, beer, chips, chocolate, chup chup)
Living with two men for two weeks is a challenge for me. Still, feeling much different from the last time I've been here. (Let's work! Explore!) I'm so cheeky that I felt like I've been living here for long time. Therefore ... I decided to clean up your fridge, stop you guys from buying things, start controlling your life ... etc. I know that you guys must had a hard time. But I had great FUN (sorry) ... I learnt a lot and inspired me in different way. You guys are just like really really close friends of mine. I can talk about any topics with you. I like here, feeling much respected, and much much freedom here ...
Peter, thanks for exploring the tracks with me. Yes, it's all my fault, don't stop your bush cutter's work. Keep on going! I hope I can see a lovely, clear, backyard, the extention of your house for wwoofers, and the use of your exercise machine on the lavender BEFORE I DIE ....
PS Also I hope I can see you find a woman who doesn't need you before I die too ...
I love interviewing you, your answers are always surprising me.
Martin, you are my darling (Don't be jealous, Peter, if I call you darling I'm sure you won't feel good about it - you're not that kind of person). I admire you talent, your masterpieces are great! Thanks for giving me the chance for exploring artistic area. Also, thanks for music sharing ... I always feel your great Passion on music and the weaken groups in the world. Don't worry, there are always Good, longlegs girls waiting for you. You are still Young (in heart) and at least 10 mins younger than Peter - you got the chance.

Friday's Guide lines for Wwoofers in the future include:
*If you find that Peter didn't take a nap one day, take him to the Doctor, that means he is not feeling well.
*If Martin gives you a charming smile with a cup of wine, be careful this is the first step for you to turn into alcoholic.
*If you open the fridge, you will always find Blue Cheese, so don't let them to buy any blue cheese any more.
*If you find there is a piece of bread on the kitchen table for two days or more, don't worry, because Peter is planning to feed the fish, but you just don't know when will this plan start.
*If there is any girls who are lovely and young coming for dinner, it is common to see these Wesleys brothers become a little bit nervous. Please vacuum the floor and tidy the untidy house a little bit, that will make them calm.
*If Peter forgets to collect his washing or he crashes into someone's car, "Remember it's wwoofer's fault", let him blame on you so he can feel much better.

It would be really cheeky to come back here for the third time ... But ... I'm a cheeky girl, so who knows what will happen.
You guys are too fancy about H.K. Girls, so if we can't see here we'll always have a chance to meet in H.K. Last, but Not LEAST, Find Me A Cute GUY! For God sake!
It's easy to come back but HARD TO LEAVE! TAKE CARE MY BUDDIES!

Travelling 5 and 1/2 months in Oz, I've been visiting nine farms. Here is the only place that I've stayed so long (3 weeks in total) and visited so many times (3 times in total). It was really lovely to live with two lovely gentlemen ... I love here and the reason why I came back again and again is: I've never been to a farm which makes me feel so comfortable and relax. I don't know how to describe or explain the feelings but everytime when I came back here, I'll be more confident about myself. I always have a lot of brainstormings when I'm here ...
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