Aida

Posted on 30th November 2010 in Art, Multimedia, Musings

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away (or so it seems these days) I wasn’t the Crazy Garden Lady, I was in fact the Dancing Queen.  I can canned my way through a life where feather boas and rhinestones and false eyelashes were the norm, and offices and permanent residences and 9 to 5 were things I read about in books.

I lived my dream for five years and then reality bit me on the fishnetted butt when the ankle and the knee and the hip flexor and the hamstring all went at the same time.  And having no talent for choreography and no patience for teaching, I did what all good retired showgirls do and segued into hospitality.
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Renaissance Skies and a Dead Nanny Soldier

Posted on 21st November 2010 in Art, Field at the Front

Mother Nature is a cow.

She lures you in with honeyed words and Renaissance skies and then when you’re least expecting it – when you haven’t watched the weather report on the telly or t’internet – she slams you with a good one and takes your soldiers out.
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100

Posted on 17th November 2010 in Just Stuff

This is my 100th post.

I’m feeling a bit of stage fright. Of pressure to perform, to create something witty, humorous and momentous to celebrate the occasion. Imagine how people must feel on their 100th birthday? To come up with an entertaining speech that covers 100 years of life, whilst negotiating slipping false teeth, squealing hearing aides, a full Depends and too much champagne. I might just skip that birthday and go straight to 101.

I’m a bit surprised at how much this little blog has affected my day to day life. What started out as an outlet for all the millions of words and thoughts and random crap that filled my head about my new little hobby of gardening (simultaneously preventing both mine and Crazy Car Man’s sanity from slipping out the front door and running helter skelter down the street) has become a whole separate hobby on it’s own. Anytime anything weird or interesting or properly mental happens, I immediately wonder how I can work it into a post. And my camera now has a permanent home in my handbag.

And the frustrated entertainer in me who badly needs an audience, and who still has machinations to run away and join the circus, thinks you who laugh at me are awesome!

So thanks.

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Summer and the Cicada Army

Posted on 14th November 2010 in Art, Bugs, Just Stuff, Musings

I’ve always loved the song of the cicada. It’s the herald of summer and subsequently all the good things that come with the rise in the mercury. When I was a kid it was 6 weeks holiday from school, Christmas and the accompanying bag of books that Santa so thoughtfully gave me, the thought of being able to secret myself away in one of the many hidey-holes I had to eat homemade iceblocks and read one of the books from the bag, of nights so humid and hot I couldn’t sleep and so my 6 weeks holiday seemed twice as long.
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The Flowering of Venus

Posted on 9th November 2010 in Books, Carnivorous Plants, Crazy Car Man, Update

It sounds like the kind of euphemistic prose you’d get in a certain type of romance novel – you know the ones I mean – the ones that have a liberal sprinkling of words like sword and lance and aren’t about sixteenth century military.

To get in the spirit of all things inspired by romance novels, I shall be referred to as Carrotelle de Summergarden and Crazy Car Man will henceforth be known as Count Automaniac of Kingswoodtopia. I have masses of titian curls and creamy shoulders (I’ve never understood that description) and the Count smoulders from beyond his lantern jaw (and smells just a little bit like car exhaust). Please feel free to give yourself a new, romance novel inspired name and description.
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Dams and Bridges and Ladders for Fishes

Posted on 4th November 2010 in Just Stuff, Musings

My garden is a bit boring at the moment. It’s raining a lot, so there’s no stories of me injuring myself hefting heavy watering cans or tripping over hoses and impaling myself on tomato stakes. All the seeds have sprouted and are doing what they’re meant to be doing, and since the first corn disaster, even the new batch of corn seed has avoided being drowned and or eaten by birds, mice or possums. I could post photos of the plants doing their growing thing, but it’s not very exciting or funny or traumatic, and so doesn’t make for an entertaining read.

I know this website is called Crazy Garden Lady, and I may be upsetting some people by writing about stuff that isn’t strictly garden related. I was considering changing the name to Crazy Garden And Sometimes Random Man Made Stuff And More Often Weird Nature Stuff Lady.com but it just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Not so snappy, harder to remember, so I’ll just have to stick with the original name and hope the strictly garden people don’t run away when I write about things like bridges, and dams and fish ladders.
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The Bridge To Nowhere

Posted on 1st November 2010 in Crazy Car Man, Just Stuff, Musings, The Bush

It was hot on Sunday.  I mean really hot, not just a little bit warm, but so hot my ears were sweating.  And I’ll pause while you truly get to grips with that image….

….. you’re getting the hot?  Good!

And naturally, being so hot, instead of doing normal things like going to the beach, or swinging in a hammock under a tree drinking a gin and tonic (where the only thing sweating is the cool cool glass), Crazy Car Man decided a walk across a scorching field was the activity du jour.
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