Year: 2020

First world Corona times.Houses have never been cleaner. Laundry is much reduced. Dogs think it is doggie Xmas, they have so much attention.  Beauty regimes down to the bare minimum and our bank balance is loving it.  Meals are cooked with love, attention to detail, plenty of time and some innovation.  The latest of the…

Our Grevillea Banksii in the Garden  The only thing in my calendar this week was going to the radio station. Reading Radio 4RPH. The day before I was meant to go I got an email to say the Radio Station had closed down in line with the government’s measures. I was sad but not surprised. …

I sit between mine on the deck. They are not of concrete, patrolled or barbed. Instead they are snowy and flaky and full and I mean full of the most colourful butterflies and bees having a field day. They are my patrols and they will sting you if you disturb them so they do their…

Butterfly – I have to say I was in excellent company with them today out with Dougall. Cabbage whites, Monarchs, green spotted triangles, moths oh my goodness they were everywhere. So there are two bright spots today you lucky ones out there. Aren’t the colours of this leaf stunning? And the second bright spot on…

As we read and hear the spread of coronavirus world wide we cannot help but feel some anxiety and concern not only about our ability to manage our own lives but for the safety of family and friends especially elderly relatives and people with a chronic condition or suppressed immunity system. Each country has responded…

Neighbour: Hey guess what, the cleaner found a 3m snake making out with the hose of my Dyson Vacuum cleaner.Me: Where?Neighbour: Vacuum Cupboard – where else?Me: Oh no, the snake got into the house and the cupboard and found her mate. What did the cleaner do?Neighbour: She screamed of course. I was downstairs. I think…

For my mum, my aunts, my mother in law, my sisters, my cousins, my nieces, my sons’ wife and girlfriends, my school mates, my bookclubs, my friends and all the fabulous females I have met throughout the years, celebrate your sex today with confidence and flair.Sending you a natural heart of maturing hues and feathers…

Today was the bushfire parade in Brisbane city when the volunteer firefighters, State emergency services, Rural fire service, National Parks, RSPCA, The Salvation Army, Red Cross  and LifeLine, and the Defence Forces  paraded through the streets of the city ending up at Brisbane city hall where the keys to the city were going to be…

It’s the second day of autumn, it feels like summer, 35C, nature and butterflies think it is spring and the sky is winking a welcome blue for winter. So what season are we in? Greedily I might reply, all of them. We walked down to the creek and the wildflowers are creeping onto the verges…

In the intervening weeks since I last wrote the rain has fallen steadily at times, in torrents otherwise. It’s wonderful to be able to walk through the city Botanic Gardens and see them turning from that dry and desperate state to lush and green. Then swiftly onwards to an exhibition I have been meaning to…