Saturday, October 30, 2010

Spring


My little garden is looking wonderful and there are lots of volunteer vegetables providing me with delicious things to eat. The flowers are lovely too and my gardenia hedge and jasmine arch smell beautifully sweet.

A friend has just been over to see me and we sat on the verandah having tea and smelling the sweetness.

Visits

I have recently returned from a trip to Melbourne to see my daughters and to Tasmania to see some very old and close friends.  Both my daughters have nice flats and are settling into Melbourne life.  We enjoyed some good dinners and talks although the weather was not really very welcoming.  I had my folding umbrella confiscated at the airport (I can't imagine what I could have done with it on the plane) and so I had to buy another one.
My friends in Tasmania have a helicopter and we flew up to another friends farm for lunch.  Here we are about to leave .....and here is a shot of their housefrom the helicopter window .

Annabel's garden was looking magnificent in the beautiful spring weather.. - Even Amelia's sheep dog had had a shampoo for spring.

Friday, October 8, 2010

rain and it's effects

Brisbane has had 100 mils of rain in the last 24 hours.  Good for the garden.  Last night I was watching the news on tv when I heard a crash and a rumble.  It was very dark and once I had ascertained it was nothing inside the house with me I went on with my evening. 

This morning I went to pick some mulberrys for my breakfast 
(don't they look nice) and when I looked down the side of the house, I saw that the scaffold for the house next door had sunk and
tipped a whole load of bricks onto my lillies and agapanthus!!  The builder had neglected to tell the brick layer that the land had been filled!!

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

the house next door

the house next door is getting bigger and bigger.  yesterday I came home and found they are now laying bricks.  this neighbourhood has old colonial queensland houses and for some unknown reason, the local council is allowing a "stranger" to be built in our midst.



Anyway, spring has really sprung and the rain that we have had has made the garden very pretty.  I'm even eating my own mulberrys.  My front garden is in the shape of a patchwork.  I originally thought I would have a low hedge and no trees but cars parked all over the street and the loss of trees to make way for my neighbour's new house has changed all that!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

visit from a friend

yesterday a friend came for lunch.  we had travelled to India last year and enoyed reminiscing about the travel, the people and the textiles.  It seems a shame that the Commonwealth games athletes aren't supposed to go out of their village to enjoy what delhi has to offer.  I took this photo at a market in Delhi in Nov 09 - how colourful can you get.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

new toy

this is my latest toy - i seem to have spent a large part of the weekend playing with it and trying to get it set up to do all the things it can do.  I now have pictures on it, the australian and it collects my email.  the next things to work out are how to connect the keyboard and put my contacts and appointments on it.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

sorting out

today is the start of the clean up  - sorting out books to take to the community bookshop