There has been a lot going on in my wee corner to of the world lately. What with the renovation – we are nearly there, working on my next book, we are also nearly there too, and an upcoming speaking tour where I shall be sharing the love I have for my garden and growing veggies in it. As a result there isn’t a lot … Continue reading Walking back to happiness.
I had always assumed Australia was a hot dry arid place with killer snakes hanging out of every tree! Not that I’d ever spent significant time in Australia to form these opinions for myself, aside from a bit of urban wandering in Sydney. Most of my ideas came from what I’d seen on the telly and encouraged by the fact that the country is host … Continue reading The Blue Mountains are indeed blue!
Lest we forget. Continue reading ANZAC
When your chilli plants are ripening more jalapenos than you can keep up with under normal circumstances and then throw the lack of a kitchen into the mix…. This will be rectified soon, hopefully I’ll be cooking up a storm by the end of next week. Well you need to get creative with your produce producing. I have already found a fabulous way to process … Continue reading SMOKING HOT!
Because technically scrumping is stealing fruit – particularly apples from an orchard. But not one to be hung up on a technicality, we went scrumping – in our orchard. Now the thing about our orchard is I planted it at the far end of our property so we would have a reason to go to the outer reaches of our land. Otherwise you just find … Continue reading Is it scrumping if it’s your orchard?
It’s not that I haven’t given them a loving home with the very best soil I could provide. I gave them everything and yet they have lashed out like insolent teenagers. Well the best way I know how to sort them out is to eat them! Although they do have an odd taste. I did a bit of research to find out what to do … Continue reading Argh – my Jerusalem artichokes have been trying to escape.
We haven’t had any rain in absolutely ages. In January we had 40mm of rain and while it felt like it was a wet and miserable summer only 10 rainy days were actually wet and most of it came from one day that had 23mm. February had 20 days without a drop and the other 8 days shared out 11mm between them! March wasn’t much … Continue reading I think I broke the drought!
A garden shredder would be nice, it would help alleviate the pain I am currently experiencing in my finger. Either that or some kind of gardening guillotine. The more I think about it the more the want becomes a need. I need a chopper. My mustard cover crop grew a lot faster than I had anticipated or maybe it is time has passed by a … Continue reading I want more things – fancy things…
Today is so lovely. It is hot, not height of summer hot, but warm enough to say “gosh, it’s hot out there.” The sky is blue but is dotted with clouds. However not enough to cling to the thought that the long sunny days are still with us. Feeling the warmth on my face with my eyes closed isn’t enough to create the false allusion of … Continue reading If I shut my eyes – I could so easily fool myself.
BANG – it’s autumn. It is like someone has just flipped a switch. I woke at my usual time, although admittedly for the last week or so I have been sleeping a little longer, and was shocked to find it dark and cold. This isn’t how it is supposed to be. We are supposed to be easing ourselves into the cooler weather, not confronted with … Continue reading I thought about putting on socks!
