Family

BOWS AND BIRDIES

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When I got a little bonus at work I knew where it  wanted to go (it told me so, I promise).

I had been resisting for months, checking Nadinoo‘s website with longing waiting for the day that the sweet little cape and pinafore would disappear…but instead they went on sale.

As they were being hand stitched just for me, I colour coded my wardrobe so that when they arrived they’d have a nice place to live. Then little paper packages and a lovely note. Each garment peeping through the paper was more darling than the last, beautiful fabrics, adorable detailing. Wearing the cape to work I was smiling like a goose, and twirled like a child when no one was looking. Hehe dress-ups!

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Travel

I WELCOME THE WOMBAT

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The wombat statue in Trentham, Australia

View through a whole in a gum tree in Trentham, Australia

Brick wall outside Red Beard Bakery in Trentham, Australia

Statues of animals in Trentham, Australia

Giraffe statue peering over wall in Trentham, Australia

Merry-go-round hgorse and waiter monkey in Trentham, Australia

Dylan and Gracie the Border Collie in a paddock near Trentham, Australia

Gracie the Border Collie in the bush near Trentham, Australia

Shadow like a waving man on the bush floor near Trentham, Australia

Shadows of eucalypts in the bush near Trentham, Australia

Gracie the Border Collie investigating a burnt out car in the bush near Trentham, Australia

Visited Trentham on the weekend and a quirkier little town you could not imagine. The resident animal sculptor had been busy and giraffes peered over fences and roosters perched on roofs, a trio of wombats were frozen mid chase on the roof of the antique store and a monkey greeted you at the entry. Walking into the bush we discovered an old racetrack, the perfect place for woodland fairies to dart in and out of shadows, or maybe just the local hoodlums to set fire to old cars.

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Garden

A YEAR OF GARDENING

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Meyer lemon in the garden

Chickens on a perch

Yellow calendula flower

Crimson broad bean flower

Espalier nectarine tied to the fence

Artichoke protected by a glass jar

Fungi on a log

Garlic with pansies and seedlings

Gracie the Border Collie stretching

Marigolds in steamers

Seedling roots

Removing nails from old timber

Greenfeast peas

Purple broccoli and red bor kale in a planter box

Purple cabbage seedling

 

Purple Podded Pea flower

It’s been a year since we started our first little 1x.8m veggie garden bed, we have slowly taken over every available space like weeds. No bare patch of soil is safe in our garden!

Our first transition into winter was a bit clunky, and I’m determined to have the garden bursting with produce all year round, the huge paved area is begging to be used. Doing our final design for our PDC has inspired us and we’re going to see if the landlord will let us completely make over the garden. Fingers crossed.

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Garden

RUTHLESS PRUNING – JUNE IN THE GARDEN

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Basket of potatoes

Pruning the almond

Digging a mini swale

Planting bulbs around the almond tree

Dying potato plant

Digging up the potatoes

Basket of potatoes

June has been a slow month. Our potato plants began to die so we started digging up their little red treasures. Our PDC lecturer inspired us to buy some bare rooted trees. We bought an almond from St Erth to grow up and hide the flats and a nectarine because it rates as one of my favourite fruits. The almond is going to share its plot with a sweet little kiwi berry and some spring bulbs. Dylan pruned the poor almond down to three branches, but come spring the sad little twig should sprout into an abundance of leaves and flowers…fingers crossed. Perhaps his min swale will help it flourish.

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