Where Have All The Braincells Gone?

Posted on 31st January 2011 in Idiocy

Summer has been a long time coming but it’s finally arrived.  Yesterday was such a scorcher I spent most of it wallowing in my own sweat, sitting under the awning trying desperately to keep my eyeballs from poaching.  I stirred occasionally from my torpid state to do such things as refresh my glass, move the hose, transplant a few succulents.  Standard hot summer day activities.

The most essential hot summer day activity for someone as ridiculously fair skinned as myself seems to have been forgotten.
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The Good, The Sad and The Freaky

Posted on 25th January 2011 in Bugs, Crazy Car Man, Field at the Front, Just Stuff, Side of the House Garden, Sunflowers, Vegetables

I would love to be a lady of the land – in much the same way that I’d love to be the lady who ate all the pies – but in both instances I don’t think my heart could handle the strain.

Farming is for the strong and for the gamblers. Or maybe the ability to gamble comes first and the strength is merely a subsidiary skill. Either way, so much of the process is left, quite literally, in the hands of someone else. In this instance, Ma N, who we all know is going through a bit of a tanty phase. And my goodness, is she not screwing up a lot of livelihoods right now?
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Fleeting Gardenia

Posted on 24th January 2011 in Bugs, Not For Eating

I grew this gardenia and I was amazed – AMAZED -  when it gave me flowery smelly goodness.
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The Kingswood’s Future

Posted on 19th January 2011 in Crazy Car Man, Kingswood, Musings

Crazy Car Man’s 1977 Holden Kingswood is his pride and joy. He sees beyond the fact that it takes 15 minutes to get it running on a good day – it gives him time to tune in the CB radio; he is stoic in the face of ankle deep water when it rains – he merely takes off his shoes and puts on a hat to keep the raindrops off his face; and he sees beauty when others see a filigree of rust on wheels. He beams proudly upon his classic car like a father gazing adoringly at his first born child.
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The Face of Evil

Posted on 10th January 2011 in Crazy Car Man, Field at the Front, Sunflowers, Update

Do not be fooled by the pristine whiteness of it’s plumage. This bird has a soul as black as the pits of Hades. Blacker even – as black as Hades’ pits after a hard day chopping wood. It’s purpose in life is to make me run screaming out of the house, waving my arms and shrieking like a banshee. And the little snotrag waits until I’m within whacking distance before shrieking back and then taking to the heavens on it’s pristine white wings of wrath inducement.
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Graves, Snakes and a Mild Case of Hysterics

Posted on 4th January 2011 in Crazy Car Man, Musings, The Bush

A hundred years ago the British sent people suffering from tuberculosis out to a sanitarium just up the road from Crazy Farm. I’m guessing they thought the clean, fresh coastal air would help heal them (and make the perilous journey worthwhile), and while I’m sure some of the patients survived, during the 30 odd year existence of the hospital, over 2000 people died, and were buried in the cemetery attached to the site.
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2010 Round Up

Posted on 2nd January 2011 in Carnivorous Plants, Chickens, Cooking, Crazy Car Man, Field at the Front, Foreign Lands, Hugh of River Cottage, Just Stuff, Musings, Not For Eating, Round Up, Sunflowers, The Bush, The England Files, Update

2010 was an absolute corker of a year. This garden malarkey sunk it’s teeth in with a vengeance and quite suddenly I was looking at the world with new eyes. I fell off a motorbike and got married in a Lahu hilltribe ceremony, I fell off a step and discovered Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, I got a new job and found a new career. And I grew loads of plants, battled snails and weeds, contended with Mother Nature’s temper tantrums, experimented madly, got things badly wrong and occasionally got them right.
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