Actually that’s a bit harsh – possibly quite harsh. But I have had my shed broken into and there was damage and things have been taken, and they have left their poop in my shed and so now it stinks! There could have been more than one, I’m not sure, but I have seen them loitering around. I lay the blame fairly and squarely at … Continue reading I feel ever so slightly violated
It’s quite funny because I seem to go on about the rain a lot and so anyone would be led to believe it is a very soggy autumn. But alas this is not the case. Since the seasons changed we have only had a couple of decent rainfalls and not really enough to undo all the damage of this summer’s drought. The boffins have proclaimed … Continue reading It’s raining again.
This time last week it was hot and muggy. So hot we slept with the door open (if you are reading this and you are a burglar contemplating robbing us blind – we very rarely sleep with everything unlocked to don’t waste your time coming over to our house). It was a restless night’s sleep after a balmy late (extremely late) summer type day. We … Continue reading Who flipped the switch?
I’m sitting here listening to the sound of a steady, but not too heavy rain falling. It just seems a little odd. We have had very little rain since December and there are all these reports about how dry the summer was, breaking records all over the place. But I won’t bore you with details about the drought as I could go on forever because … Continue reading Normal is actually good, even if it means you may get wet!
There are two schools of thought when determining the official change of the seasons. Some folks believe it should be on the equinox which by my reckoning means we still have 21 more days of balmy summer days. But the thing is… I am so impatient in the spring that I can’t make myself wait for the equinox for the spring to start – I … Continue reading You can’t have it both ways.
But it’s cold and I can’t seem to focus. Well –it’s not actually that cold – I’m just a bit of a sook today. To give me a tiny bit of credit, there was a frost this morning, but now the sun is out, shining its watery thin light through the clouds onto my desk as I sit here with a warm blanket over my … Continue reading I’m supposed to be doing other things.
For the last week it has been windy and raining with heaps of scary thunder and lightning. The ground went all soggy and boggy. Then finally the clouds cleared – well enough to create the illusion of an end to it all and we even got a beautiful rainbow to show that it was all over. So there was one thing for it. It was … Continue reading Rain – it’s never there when you need it!
A wee pop up from my calendar popped up today: Go and take a photo of the garden. It’s a little something I started last month. I am determined to take a photo of the garden – as it is, warts and all, with no pre photo rushing around and primping and weeding. But I am a bit forgetful so I need to put a … Continue reading Mother’s day is a moveable feast at our place!
I’m such an idiot. There I was the other night bleating on about how cold it was and taking lots of photos to prove it, when I should have been out there protecting my vulnerable plants with frost cloth! But to make matters worse, I was so absorbed in my project that I didn’t go out into the garden at all yesterday, so not only … Continue reading I am so cross with myself!
You only have to take one look about outside this evening to know it’s going to be a cold one. There is very little cloud about and the moon is already out, trying to outshine the sun and it’s not even 5:00 yet. The weather forecasters say it will only get as low as 6°C but that’s the lowest it’s been so far this autumn, … Continue reading The first fire of the season has been lit in the fire place.
