A new start in the garden is a good idea on New Year’s Day, and since the chickens were killed a short time ago, it’s time to change the look of the garden.   It’s certainly been a lot tidier since their demise, although I’d rather have the mess. Since we no longer need to have [...]

Have you noticed that whenever you think you’ve finished weeding the garden, you look around and see more weeds coming up behind you? Don’t they ever stop growing? It’s a never ending battle, especially if you don’t want to use pesticides, or weedkillers, which I don’t. Having pets, and wanting wild birds to visit my [...]

Over the past ten to twelve years, the climate in Melbourne, where I live, has been slowly changing. During this time, it has become drier and we are considered to be in a drought. It is much hotter in Summer, our Winters are sometimes milder, but we don’t actually get much rainfall, especially in Spring, [...]

Someone has requested a better picture of my chickens. Fine, but it’s not that easy to get the birds to pose – they’re not models, you know! Anyway, they were wandering about in the garden yesterday, and this is what I came up with

Last weekend we decided it was time to catch up on some tree trimming in the front garden. First to get the chop, so to speak, was a tea-tree, which was getting a little too big and was threatening the telephone cable. That was cropped about a metre, so it should grow back nice and [...]

This doesn’t need any more words from me………