Host: Liveringa Station Written by Paxton Pullford – Ringer, Liveringa Station. Every year for Central Station I ask at least one of the new station hands to write down their thoughts about life as a ‘ringer’ in the Kimberley. Paxton is 19. He finished Year 12 at Kings College, Sydney last year. He comes from […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Woodrow (Glenn Staines) – Head Stockman, Liveringa Station. How do you break in a horse? As the saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat – as is with horse breaking. After all, how do you convince a 500kg animal that out-does you in size and strength, […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Desi Turner – Gardener, Liveringa Station. Clive and Desi joined us this year to manage our workshop and gardens. We love their enduring positivity and sense of humour. – Karen, Station Manager. “Let’s live and work on a cattle station,” Clive said as we sat drinking a coldie after a […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Peter (Jed) O’Brien – Station Manager, Liveringa Station. Peter (Jed) O’Brien. A couple of years ago I had a coffee with a friend and beef industry leader in the south east. He made a jovial comment about cattle management in northern Australia, suggesting that northern cattle producers have adopted a […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Tom Robertson – Ringer, Liveringa Station. I had said my goodbyes and just as I climbed into my ute to point the steering wheel north, a wise man left me with a few parting words: “Go, have the time of your life, but make sure you come back.” After pondering […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Tom Robertson – Ringer, Liveringa Station. Tom. Waking at 4.30 am to the familiar “knock, knock, knock” of the generator springing to life signals the beginning of another day at Liveringa Stock camp. No doubt today will be similar to many that came before it, and many that will […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Zarrah Blackwell – Ringer, Liveringa Station. Zarrah. Working at Liveringa Station in the Stock Camp is one of the best things I have done. There are not many industries around that you get so much variety and experience on a daily basis as what you do working on a […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Glenn Staines (‘Woodrow’) – Ringer, Liveringa Station. At Liveringa this year we have eight ‘ringers’ (station hands) including the Head Stockman, who spend a good deal of the ‘season’ (period of time it is possible/viable to process the cattle) out at either Hardman’s or MacCreas stock camps. Over the next […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Christine Dillon – Mother of Staff and Gillian Sirl – Photographer, Liveringa Station. I love this short piece written by the mother of one of our ringers this year. I think it reflects how mums feel everywhere when their babies grow up, leave home, and enter the workforce. . . […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Linda Cossor – Station Cook, Liveringa Station. On average, our cook has 21 mouths to feed every day. That, however, doesn’t include the three pilots that we forgot to mention were coming tonight, the vet who’ll be here for three days, the ringer’s parents who are up for a visit, […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Catherine – Home Tutor, Liveringa Station. The education of our children has always been my biggest challenge whilst living this beautiful station life. We are so incredibly fortunate, though, to have had a succession of wonderful Home Tutors. Catherine, a trained teacher from the UK, is with us for the […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Jed O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. Jed and I are in our sixth year here at Liveringa Station – and finally I think we can now say we know both the place and the job really well. Jed agreed to start our week of blogs with a piece on his […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Karen O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. The family. Visitors often come during the dry and stay for a few days/weeks and tell us how lucky we are to be living this life. But I often think that they fail to remember that they are on holidays . . . and […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Karen O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. My husband Jed can often be heard coining the phrase “living the dream” when talking about our life and work up here. I, on the other hand won’t repeat the phrase you’ll usually hear me use when describing our life! Yeah, yeah, yeah – it’s […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Karen O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. Zarrah, one of our new staff members this year, writes about her move from NZ where she worked as a stock agent, to become a ‘ringer’ in the unforgiving north of Australia. Similarly, Jake, who is back at Liveringa for a second year, gives us […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Lisa – Cropping Crew, Liveringa Station. Because we wrote about most aspects of our working life here at Liveringa last year when we hosted the blog, we thought that we needed to come up with a new idea this year. We decided to focus on the ‘extremes’ of life up here. […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Jed O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. Last week we embarked upon our first muster for the 2014 season. We usually start with the paddocks closest to the homestead yards; we are on high ground here, the access is good. We do a few paddocks here while we wait for the […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Karen O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. The 2014 mustering season for us has just kicked off. The ‘season’ refers to those months of the year when it is cool and dry enough to muster, draft, and truck cattle around and off the station. Over the wet, jobs which we don’t […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by – Karen O’Brien, Manager, Liveringa Station. Do you remember our previous hosts Liveringa Station? True to the nature of station life, they were so busy during their hosting week they didn’t have a chance to introduce the whole crew. Now, as the season winds up Karen would like you to […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Karen O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. The 2013 cropping team consists primarily of Barry Chapman (Cropping Manager) and his two hardworking offsiders Jake O’Dell and Lisa Leonhardt. Barry and his wife Bev joined the Liveringa team quite recently, and are a wonderful addition to the “Liveringa family”. Barry is a […]
