Been so very busy of late, had trouble getting on also, thought I was a foreign country.Not a lot happening while I was away do you think we should give up?

Cleared out books yesterday, was going to garden today but its raining, so wasting time on coomputer.

Just when you think summer is coming it gets all cold again. Planted carrots yesterday and starting to clear up all the older spring flowers. So loved all the sweet peas, given away heaps, going to collect seeds. Pulled up a wonderful Californian gold and white poppy plants and have been collecting seed from them. They were gorgeous.

Well free at last feels like I dropped off a child for first day at school yesterday, threw myself into the garden to keep busy, this morning.I am sure mum will be ok staff were extremely nice and welcoming. Wont visit now till maybe Tues morning. Very quiet here.

Big packing and sorting and taking in of mum’s clothes today. Drop of Day (DDay) Wednesday. John took a new chair and 2 small open shelf type and about 10 multi photo frames and hung them on the picture rail. Mum not happy about any of it so keeping fingers cross it will go easily. Big Weekend coming up for 12 year old granddaughter. We (eldest…[Read more]

Been busy with mum, found a permanent place for her in a very nice aged care hostel. So much paper work to get through, whether you are just being put on a list or the omg centrelink financial review . Only 30 pages for that.

Love a lemon balm Judi B must get my seeds out.

Picked some sweet peas, took mum and I to a craft group, finished off some hardanger.Watered the garden but it is so windy glad to be back inside.

Going to weed today if it stops raining. Planting zucchini and simba beans and bush pumpkins. Managed to pack up 2 boxes of old quilting stuff to send off to a charity that donates made quilts. porgey. I grew peanuts but don’t have any seed, got eaten one night while drying them out, so never tried again. Was wondering if raw peanuts in the…[Read more]

I used the George Forman Grill just to decide whether to give it away or not. Pain to clean, cooked sausages in it and lamb chops but reckon a frying pan will do. Still deciding. The muffin maker I am still wondering about also whether to even bother to make them or not is the issue. I mean how long has it been since I made muffins. Don’t even buy them.

I bought this way back. Don’t use it a lot now, but still have it.

I love this book, make the pretend caper recipe all the time(nasturtium seeds)

I recently planted a new climbing bean called Giant of Stuttgart plus my usual Purple King. As I plant according to the moon my next lot will be Simba which I like the best and some old Jade seeds to use up. These are bush beans. Just finished planting topweight carrot seeds and ready to plant out tomatoes, again a bit different, Jubilee Yellow,…[Read more]

Greening of Gavin has an E cheesebook I love, with video tutorials, have a look at his Little Green Cheese blog.

Aussiedownunder: We have a curing fridge for cheese, haven’t made any salami yet even though have had all the spices for ages. John is of Italian background and as a child all the relatives got together and made heaps of them.

Off to take mum to mental health today, last of dr visits I hope, then this afternoon at dentist finally having this tooth out.Not feeling the best though, so tired.

Making a quillo at the moments, besides weeding and watering. Had lots of Dr. stuff with mum. Just jogging along really.

We all went for a steam train ride today. So much fun, took me back to the days we used to live by the Puffing Billy. We went thru 5 tunnels, 1 hr there and another back. Coffs Harbour celebrating 100 yrs since the first train went through. Also could have seen old cars, and ride in a DC 3.or pop down to the marina and board, an old pirate…[Read more]

Well, I went to the endodontist again today and after another hr of drilling, he finally has come to a decision that the tooth can not be saved so, back to my original dentist, to get it out 2 months later.Had so much medical stuff lately just want it all to end. Dr has said I can no longer look after mum, and we finally got her to see a Dr and…[Read more]

Can you split the area in half with a temp fence so the chicks get to walk around, a pecking order will have to be established , maybe you can let one other chicken in see what happens then. I only have 3 chickens someone else may know more.