The Copper Preserving Pan – Finally.
Finally I have my copper preserving pan. It arrived from England yesterday and it is precisely what I needed. It has spent the last 80 odd years in someone’s attic, …
Finally I have my copper preserving pan. It arrived from England yesterday and it is precisely what I needed. It has spent the last 80 odd years in someone’s attic, …
Not so much time for the garden this week as I have been busy at other things, but thought I’d update you from the nursery (a.k.a. the greenhouse). I have …
I read this interesting article today: My Battle to Cut Carbon: a battling, frustrating path to a more honest life. Both the article, and the many comments which follow it, …
I am high on coffee and am hunting out the humour for the day. Hitler reacts to the news that Oasis has split. Hee hee hee hee. (Warning, Hitler uses …
I ran out of plant labels today. How could I have got through 250 so fast? So I went online to Diggers and bought a thousand more, and while I …
It has been such a lovely day today! After all this glum – suddenly bright and sunny and warm. I erected a new set of shelves for the greenhouse. A …
I guess many Australians, particularly Victorians, have been following the story of Victorian Cabinet Minister Tim Holding who was lost out bush walking in the extreme weather over last weekend. …
Almost all the way back to the bleak midwinter today. I wasn’t going to write today, but we’ve had the most fabulously scary wind and I had to say somethingabout it. …
Today was spent on the ornamentals. Last night I was contemplating what to do with my spare bit of bog (did that not come out right???) and I decided a …
Apparently Hobart is the centre for the production of a new meteorological disaster film, Arctic Blast: ice creeps up (or down, I guess, depending on which hemisphere you are in) from …