Seven in the morning and the radio opens my eyes. There is a leadership challenge on in the Labor Party. The nation is, apparently rivetted, and even in my morning stupor I admit to being mildly interested. Coffee. Get kids up. Breakfast. Get dog on leash and walk to school. About halfway up the hill, […]
I went up to the community gardens this afternoon with my daughter Clare. She fought me over the hose. What is it about watering vegetables that attracts children so much? I was thinking as we stood there that one of the sad things about the drought we are having – and very low water storages […]
After all the philosophy about compost in my last post, I thought I’d share a wonderful and very practical discovery I made a few years ago that has transformed my home composting methods. As anyone who has tried it knows, the average domestic compost bin soon deteriorates into a damp smelly mess if not managed […]
Conventional wisdom used to dictate that there were two topics that should not be the subject of polite conversation if conflict was to be avoided. I doubt whether this stricture was ever really obeyed. Surely people have always argued, debated and visited their views on others. As one of my friends remarked “What else is […]
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