Anne Layton-Bennett

Anne Layton-Bennett is a freelance writer - which allows her to talk to lots of interesting and fascinating people and tell their stories about the work they do, and the lives they’ve lived. She has been a regular contributor of science-based, animal-related articles for specialist monthly magazine The Veterinarian for almost 20 years, and she also writes the occasional feature for online publication Tasmanian Times. Currently Anne is also working on a non-fiction memoir that tells the story of a community’s campaign to stop what would have been ‘the world’s fourth largest pulp mill’ being built in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley.

Dr John Ball - husband, father, GP, actor, chorister, gardener, bushwalker, intrepid traveller

Dr John - a life well lived

By Anne Layton-Bennett • March 28, 2025

It's said funerals can be an occasion when people learn more about a person they may only have known in a single conext. John Ball's inteests were many and varied and it's likely the packed service reflected this. We all hope to be remembered for living a good life. John could certainly claim that.

One of the many alternative options to avoid watching Budget Night on television

Blow the Budget

By Anne Layton-Bennett • March 28, 2025

One of the many alternative options to avoid watching Budget Night on television that successfully combines a creative commitment with conviviality and food.

Free range bantams have a tendency to scorn prepared nesting boxes and set up 'house' elsewhere

Hide and seek

By Anne Layton-Bennett • March 18, 2025

Hunting for Easter eggs might be a thing, but when free range bantams decide to lay their eggs away from the chook house, finding them can be a problem.