Merry Christmas to you if you should be reading this. I hope it was a pleasant one. Our local bike shop was recently inundated with boxes given that they were taking delivery of extra bikes to be given as gifts over Christmas. I took a hot half hour out of my busy schedule to pack … Continue reading Boxing Day
This is the map for the southern half of Western Australia for Saturday the 21st of December 2019 - from the Emergency website. These are all prescribed burns except for one on Mount Melville here in town which was reported and monitored. Some of these markers actually indicate several fires in the general location. So … Continue reading Prescribed Burns
Mrs PP has created something of a Christmas tradition in the household. It's like an Advent Calendar of sorts, only it's a collection of 25 books with Christmas themes and stories. They are wrapped - with recycled paper from last year if its still good - and put under the Christmas Tree. The Little Fellas … Continue reading Trashed
I have not spent much time in the garden, aside from the morning and afternoon check and water. The days have been warm. Almost a heat-wave you could say for the last week or so. It has me pondering over the complete inadequacy of the soil to retain moisture at the moment. Slowly I am … Continue reading The Big Dry
This is the garden a few months ago when the beds were upgraded and planted out with tomatoes, spinach other seedlings removed from the pathways. Several months later it is a jungle of tomatos, herbs, flowers, spinach, pepino . . . It is also home to King Skinks, Motorbike Frogs, numerous insects, a Bandicoot or … Continue reading Little Kingdoms
Petit Paradis 