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Community long table Blogjune 2019/21
I settled in my suburb because community is a little more central here than in many other places. It was built following “Garden Suburb” principles, aimed at giving soldiers returning from the Second...
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Eat my garden 10. Ballerina apples, dwarf kusiae lime, lettuce, basil,...
Ballerina apples are dwarf varieties that generally have just a single stem, but I have allowed mine to spread a little. The red is a “Pinkabelle”, which is like a Pink Lady, while the green is a...
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Recognising “after”. Blogjune 2019/23
You know how there are life events so big that you divide life into “before” and “after”? One of the joys of Blogjune is insight into how other people live and think. I really appreciate the careful...
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Eat my garden 11. Weeping mulberry. Blogjune 2019/24
The weeping mulberry in the rear courtyard is kept trimmed to the height of the rear fence, as this is the direction that the prevailing winds come. The house is designed to catch the breeze through...
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Drawing the veil 12 years later. Blogjune 2019/25
How much should one share on a blog? TL;DR “Totally the author’s decision, but my governing rule is “I try not to tell other people’s stories””. That’s why my last post sounded so very vague about...
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Eat my garden 12. Orange, lettuce, marigold, basil. Blogjune 2019/26
This little orange has given us one orange. Last year. I used it to bake a “whole orange” cake for my son’s birthday, so we could all share it. It was repotted last year, so I think it may not give us...
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Not drowning under email. Blogjune 2019/27
Email rules my day far less than it used to. Here are some tweaks I made to make it so. 1. I turned off desktop alerts – no more audio or popup messages when I get a new email. (Only took me 30 years...
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Eat my garden 13. Lavender. Blogjune 2019/28
Lots of lavender down the driveway. At first I would carefully pick the flowers each year and dry them before giving the bushes a hard pruning back so the car could get past. Now, we have had so much...
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Radical kindness and corruption. Blogjune 2019/29.
The Carnegie UK Trust is forefront of research into kindness and how it strengthens community. It is worth spending a couple of hours reading their research reports from the last two years that are...
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Eat my garden 14. Passionfruit and big lemon tree. Blogjune 2019/30
This is the most unlikely corner of the garden. The little courtyard is just one metre from the fence, and then the back of the house is a metre from the other fence. For some reason, I thought it was...
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Mental health and self-care at university: academic staff.
What do you do when your mind understands potential harm caused by an environment, yet when you are physically there you willingly jump inside the hamster-wheel, and even perpetuate the process for...
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Community long table Blogjune 2019/21
I settled in my suburb because community is a little more central here than in many other places. It was built following “Garden Suburb” principles, aimed at giving soldiers returning from the Second...
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So, what shall I do?
Anyone been through similar … or have sage words of advice for deciding what to do next? 2010 A decade ago I was the right side of my forties, married and twenty years into a stable relationship, with...
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BlogJune 2020 – an image a day. Join in. List here.
STEPPING IN TO BLOGJUNE… For the last 10 years a group of mainly Australian library bloggers have tried to blog more frequently each June, originally aiming for one post per day. This year is an odd...
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Not running on empty. BlogJune 2020/3
I last bought petrol for my car on 15 March, 80 days ago… and the fuel tank is nowhere near empty. The major journey was an hour round-trip to Perth to recharge the battery after it went flat through...
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Gargoyle, almond, chickens, egg, grapevine. BlogJune 2020/5
Part of the new chookyard. No more bending for eggs. Other people adopted pandemic puppies or pandemic kittens, but I finally accepted that the arrangement I had for my chooks for 20 years was really...
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