When I was newly pregnant with my first child, Clare, I remember looking through the early spring crop of seed catalogues with fear in my heart. After all, so many seeds fail to grow. Some rot. Some push out tender green shoots and the snails finish them off. Some fail for unaccountable reasons, and you […]
One of my favourite cookery writers, Geoff Slattery, once said that if the former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam had been a vegetable, he would have been an eggplant, but that he would have called himself an aubergine.
I know what he meant. The kingly purple, the elegant curves of the leaves, their fussy, arrogant ways…but […]
How does anyone write who does not garden? Whenever I hit a block with my other writing (www.margaretsimons.com.au) I go out, pull a few weeds, stand and watch the tomatoes ripen, or give the compost a twirl with the worm. Even if it doesn’t work, it still helps quell the panic of the blank white […]
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, […]
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 […]
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