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Thursday, June 25th, 2009As I well know, it’s one thing to know how to do something but another thing to actually do it! On June 11th I set myself the challenge of gardening as if my life depended on it and since then I’ve been harvesting something from the garden every day. It had seemed as though it [...]
Dill’s Atlantic Giant
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008This amazing heirloom pumpkin, a Dill’s Atlantic Giant, was grown in Bathurst by Keith Hungerford, and its brother or sister won a prize at the Bathurst Show! It then went on to be displayed at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney. The breed has produced the world’s largest pumpkin weighing in at 496kg. It took [...]
The agony and the ecstasy
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Pear blossoms
Spring is a time of agony and ecstasy. The garden is gloriously alive and the blossoms appearing everywhere are a promise of delicious fruit to come. Ecstasy. Then suddenly the winds start and the blossoms are blown away. Agony. As I try and prepare for our family’s food security into the future, wind [...]
A bite of borage, a shot of courage
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Quick, before Monsanto gets hold of the seeds … get yourself a borage plant!
Pliny, and others throughout history, have attributed borage with giving people courage, driving away sadness and depression and lifting the spirits – just what we need to help us tackle global warming!
Pliny called the plant Euphrosinum, because it “maketh [...]
Time is life
Friday, September 14th, 2007Camellia in our Spring Garden
The challenges we are facing with global warming, peak oil, flu epidemics, collapsing stock markets, and mounting stress appear insurmountable. These are all complex problems. Is there any way to build immunity and to survive these diseases of our contemporary world and the illness threatening our planet?
After 2 years of [...]
Start now and avoid the rush
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007This morning I woke to discover that all my veges had disappeared under snow. I didn’t really mind – it was so beautiful. The thing that did bother me was reading the debate between Clive Hamilton and George Monbiot and watching the replay of last night’s Lateline Business interview on Peak Oil.
When Lateline’s [...]
Slow down, you move too fast …
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Performance for 25 Passing Vehicles by John Reid
Well, today I discovered that just buying a bike is no preparation for peak oil! After clearing out my front room yesterday I put my bike in an easy to access place and finally, after owning it for 5 months, went for my first ride in Blackheath. [...]
Shocking expose!
Monday, May 28th, 2007My mother would die if she saw these …
It’s a cover-up!
Friday, May 25th, 2007 Original screenprint by Francis Phoenix
I grew up with a mother who taught me about knitting, crocheting and wearing aprons. In the last few years I’ve done a small amount of knitting but no crochet and no aprons. Today, however, I wore my mother’s old suede suit and there’s nothing like a suede suit [...]
Homo Britannicus
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007Children love the idea of robots. This morning Maxie was playing his favourite game of being a baby robot. I commented that his piano playing showed a lot of feeling which was unusual for a robot. His arms were moving up and down stiffly as he came in to me and said, in a [...]
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