Petticoat lane, Penola

If you read my last post you would realise that last week I took myself for a drive to Penola. I went to Sharam cottage to raid the herb garden, for a donation of course, and to get away from the house for a good part of the day. 

Sharam cottage, on Petticoat lane, is in Penola in the Limestone Coast of South Australia. Penola, is well known, to locals maybe, for it's wool bombing. It adds an awesome charm to the town, and I love it.

I think it's awesome that someone has had the initiative to hang some petticoats on the line out the front of Davidson's cottage too. 

On the way home back to Millicent, I stopped to take a photo of the trees over the road, just before the Kalangadoo turn off. I grew up in Kalangadoo, and it always reminds me of how carefree and wonderful my childhood was. Why do we need to grow up?

I remember driving through this avenue of trees many, many times. The flickering of the sunlight through the trees, as I sat in the car with my four siblings.

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Sharam cottage, Penola

Summer and I joined Mum for a drive to Penola a couple of weeks ago, to have a look at St Mary's Garden.

After lunch at the bakery in town, she took us to Sharam Cottage. 

Sharam cottage is a National Trust property on Petticoat Lane in Penola. It has been preserved to show how the Sharam family lived in the late nineteenth century.

So interesting to see and read their story, if you get the chance, GO and have a look. 

At the back of the buildings, there's a gorgeous little herb, fruit and veggie garden. Produce is left in a little wooden hut for purchase, and you're free to pick as many herbs as you like for a donation. You'll be greeted by the most friendly ginger cat on your arrival! He's a charmer.

The first four photos are from that day we visited with Mum. I returned last week on my own (I needed a mental health day/drive) and had a better look around and took more photos, as well as getting more herbs and some feijoas!

I'm so glad Mum showed me this, and I cannot believe I hadn't been before!

The internal walls were clad with hessian, then a layer of paper, so that the wallpaper of the day would stick to the wall. No gyprock in those days!

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St Mary's Wines and Garden

St Mary's Wines is one of many winerys located along the Coonawarra wine strip near Penola in South Australia. You have to travel a little way off the main road, but it is well worth the detour for the breathtaking dry stone walls and wonderful garden art and sculptures.

The gardens were on display as part of the Australian Open Garden scheme over the weekend. Summer and I tagged along with Mum and her friend Erica to have a look. 

I love going for drives with Mum, she always seems to know when I need a day out.

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A sunday drive to Penola

My place in time #53  - If I had kids I would want to take them here


We've had Peppi for a little over two months. It seems longer, he has grown so much.

We took him for a drive to see the two little girls where he came from. They were very happy to see him and our girls had fun playing with them. 

We bought lunch after from the bakery, ate it in the park and the kids had a brief play in the playground. I couldn't feel my toes! It was a bitterly cold day, we didn't stick around long.

Penola was covered in knitted woolens, why I don't know. Maybe I should have asked the lady in the lolly shop. I was too busy taking photos. I did however, get my chocolate covered ginger fix and had the bag eaten in the half hour it took to get home!