Housewarming!

This is Brha doing an ethiopian coffee ceremony at our housewarming.

Magpies

It's almost spring. The magpies are getting angry.

There is a magpie that sits on a lightpole just down the road from the office i go to most days. Last week it swooped me, but didn't hit me very hard. After that i spent some time observing it from the window at my desk, where i can get a good view of this crazed bird.

Yesterday i saw about 4 people getting swooped by the magpie. I don't want to turn this into some kind of sick spectator sport, but it is quite exciting to watch, because i can see the magpie before the innocent people walking under it can.

I told Christel about it, and she told me that there is a poem by Leunig about this kind of thing. Here is is;


Magpie magpie dive on me
swoop down from your holy tree
as i pass the flower bed
stick your beak into my head

magpie magpie make a hole
through my head into my soul.
as i pass beneath the sun
bring my troubled head undone

magpie, magpie it is spring
is my soul a happy thing?
as i pass around the tree,
make a hole so you can see.

Brocollini

Our very own Brocollini, freshly harvested.

Transplant Day

Here is a tiny spinach plant. How cute!














Today we transplanted some tomatos and chilles into the ground, after putting sugar cane mulch and worm poo on our soil.
















Worm poo - yum!

Can you see the worm?














This is Christel, mulching the garden.



















This is me, holding worm poo.

Melbourne

I went to melbourne on the weekend. So much food in Melbourne!

Haloumi Pie! $2.50. Yeeeeeeeeah!

Canoli! $2. Yeeeeeeeeah!

So Kyja is doing well. We got up late, cooked breadfast (including haloumi) then watched trashy tv, then cooked more food, then went to the video store and got more trashy stuff to watch, then cooked dinner, then watched tv. repeat for 4 days. lovely.

The Baby

The baby! You can see it if you look reeeealy close.

It's our cute little tomato. We are all very proud.

My Ego

This week my ego got some feeding, because i got paid for some travel writing, making me an official freelance travel journalist.

I made an internal agreement with myself, that when i get paid for writing i have to spend part of it on celebratory beer, like a really nice boutique beer that i can sit and savour and ponder my meagre achievements at pretending to be a writer.

How much did i get paid, you ask?

....

$25

Ha.

So this is enough for maybe a six pack of xxxx, if i don't want to spend ALL my hard earned earnings on alcohol. Ah... the dilemma's of the freelance travel journalist.....

Here is my article.

http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2008/08/08/why-getting-off-the-beaten-path-is-sometimes-a-bad-idea/

Seedlings!

Here is our brocollini. Can you see it? It's a bit like a 'where's wally?'















We recently planted some tomato and basil seedlings. They've been doing well in the ground so far. Though the tomatos don't have heaps of sun, so we might shift them to a sunnier place soon.

This is Mary, Brha's cousin who's been staying with us for a while. She's an enthusiastic gardener.

And finally, my very tiny bok choy. If you look really closely you can see the very beginning of seedlings.

How cute!!!!

Cassie: The girl who loves worms

This is my housemate Cassie. She loves worms. And who wouldn't? They eat all the household food waste, and turn it into delicious and nutricious castings, which are a lovely organic fertiliser for the garden. We have a worm farm, and it's fun to watch the inhabitants grow bigger, and juicier every day as they eat our rubbish.

Yum!

Here is Pippa, showing her love for the worm. If you look closely, you can the little fellow on her hand.

Today was hot, so we had some spontaneous planting. Here is Cassie again, applying the worm castings to the freshly planted Tomato seedlings. You can also see the broccoli.

The Garden

This is our garden.

There is lots of potential.

There are five seperate beds, with good quality soil already. As you can see, there are lots of weeds at the moment. While it's been cold, we've just been hovering around inside, occasionally looking out the window and making ambitious plans for what to do when it gets warmer.

Before i moved in Christel planted some broccoli, which is doing very nicely. I didn't even think of planting anything because i forgot that living things can grow and prosper in the cold, like spinach! What a crazy vegetable!

The Beginning

Now i am back in Brisbane. Here is my street.

I've decided to resurrect my blog, and document the growth of our garden.