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
Google Maps won't show you a birds eye view of the bushland that was once Joondalup. What is today a northern suburbs metropolis of Perth, was once coastal woodland quite typical of the Swan Coastal Plain. This is how I know I'm getting older. There is however a set of photos of Joondalup to give … Continue reading Macrozamia riedlei
Petit Paradis 