21st Century Garden, Geelong

December 5, 2009
Geelong Botanic Gardens

Over ten years of drought has made a beautiful, thriving home garden a challenge too great for many Australians. It’s a challenge the people at Geelong Botanic Gardens have accepted head on. They have come to a compromise with Mother Nature and created the 21st Century Garden. The 21st Century Garden was opened in 2002 […]

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The Food Garden

October 26, 2009
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Now that the weather’s warmer more often than it’s cold, we’ve been tempted out to the food garden.  At the moment we’re not getting much in the way of food, although hopefully that will change in the next eight weeks or so. We have been pinching some leaves off our little iceberg lettuces for salad.  […]

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Winter Grasses

October 23, 2009

Sometimes in winter it’s tough for me to find things to photograph.  I get stuck in a rut, thinking that everything is dank and gloomy.  Especially around home, where I normally photography the gardens, animals, lovely sunrises and flowers. Sometimes the interesting stuff isn’t necessarily the brightest or prettiest though. These grasses shoot up each […]

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My boy was abducted by aliens

October 21, 2009
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Aliens.  It’s the only explanation. Gone is the self-absorbed, grouchy boy.  The one who was only interested in watching TV, who left a trail of destruction and mess in his wake, who argued with everyone about everything. In his place, we now have a beautiful helpful child.  He asks if there’s anything he can do […]

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Good News Day

October 15, 2009
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Last visit to my haemo in September I wasn’t able to get any results.  It seems Medicare are tightening their belt and decided that they will only pay for the leukaemia marker test every three months.  I’d seen a different doctor the time before and he’d ordered the test a month early, so it wasn’t […]

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Big Banana, Coffs Harbour

October 8, 2009
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Image by sixty4coupe One of the attractions that was on our must do list on our recent holiday to the Coffs Coast was The Big Banana in Coffs Harbour.  I can remember as a child listening with awe to stories of visits to this famous landmark. I tried to convince Mum and Dad on an […]

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