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on nutans in bud for the first time in ages it s happy with the rain and i hope will have several sprays of flowers in a day or so the rain brings out the ants or rather brings the little buggers in sometimes into the house sometimes into things in the garden the dischidia pectinoides yes i had to check the label for the name was absolutely swarming with the wretches so i wrestled it out of its pot and left it hanging on a branch in the rain and then i ll mix a new brew of compost for it repot it and cross my fingers and when i went looking for a picture of it i see it s known by the common name of ant plant arghhh i might have thought twice about buying it if i d known that here s a wiki piccy time to don the chef s hat i m doing this all back arsewards aren t i i should just give the chef his hat and let him get on with rustling up some tasty victuals slow learner me once more unto the breach featured dinahmow 30 comments i said that in my best olivier voice a shame you can t hear it i got up this morning fed the furry ones brewed some coffee and came in here for a quiet perusal of emails and blogs oh my ears and whiskers there was an email from scarlet advising me that wordpress has done some more tinkering and that the cunning little work around devised for the earlier tinkering no longer de tinkered well bugger i thought i d better at least let the world know that i am still here even if my ship is about to go down thus far things seem to be ok but we all know how easily i can get in a muddle shall we see if i can still transport photos from the land beyond right seat belts on here we go oo er missus it s bigger n i thought the lovely carissa which has such a sweet scent and tasty fruits and vicious spines but hey it s a picture on my blog and you don t need sherlock s big magnifier we had more rain this week and fabulous lightning one night no thunder here but it must have been a cracking storm somewhere out to sea i expect so most of this week has been given over to more weeding another picture of another frog the big news on the local scene is that some covid restrictions have been eased as of glances at clock a couple of hours ago facemasks are no longer mandatory whenever we leave our houses and people can dance at venues and weddings and have up to 100 people in their houses bloody hell who lives in a house big enough to cram 100 in now to see if i can publish this post i know it s even briefer than usual but things are rather hectic here and i have some important filing to do sigh grubbing around in the garden does wreak havoc on nails on the docket today featured dinahmow 16 comments a little pruning no weeding as i have some band aided fingers the dioscorea along the front verandah rail is starting to show its autumnal yellows that means i d better cut it down now if i leave it until all the leaves have turned crispy and brown i ll never get my secateurs through it also it has seeds forming and i don t want a forest of this next year note i ve called it d as i m really not sure what it is there is one whose fruits are edible but i m pretty sure this is not it how do i know because years ago an old woman told me she cooked them for the family i asked how and she said just the same as ya cook spuds well i tried boiling some after at least half an hour of rapid boiling they were still rock hard and green microwaving didn t work either nor did salting then roasting still hard still green and very likely still deadly here is a shot of some of the fruits the smallest is about the size of a small pea they get a hell of a lot bigger i ve dug out rooted ones that easily fill a 15cm 6 soup bowl so i ll try to pick up any that drop birds bats and possums spread them whether eaten and passed through the digestive tract or simply knocked off the vine or maybe bitten and spat out i don t know but there are quite a few around the place that probably came from mine oopsy i think we could all do with some amusement especially poor queen mary https www futilitycloset com 2021 04 08 american ships head to gulf and for those of you old enough to have put your saturdee night drinkin back forward an hour so you could watch the kiddies tv favourite https www youtube com watch v ip5e9nuvx6a i like clever we could all do with more of clever love is good too and there seems not to be much of that these days here s what one chap did while stuck in some hotel to sit out his covid quarantine like i said clever well i d better git in the saddle and gallop out to the chow house https www theguardian com world 2021 apr 05 horsing around australian man creates paper friend out of lunch bags in hotel quarantine pretty sure this didn t make it to the kiddies session forest of the damned featured dinahmow 15 comments damned palm seedlings that is foxtail palm wodyetia bifurcata a lovely lush thing but rather too generous with its seeds ripening to a rich orange about golf ball size they hang on the tree for ages not unlike a 5kg bag of mandarins and are a good food source for bats possums and some birds then the few hundred or so that are left drop to the ground germinate and away we go again that s not grass it s hundreds of foxy seedlings all this rain we ve had are having has given everything a boost and i spent some time this morning pulling out handfulls of these lovely trees in the right place but this yard does not have the space for so many not so long ago foxies were at the centre of a scandal https en wikipedia org wiki cape_melville_incident i also pulled handfulls of cobblers pegs bidens pilosa a nasty thing whose seed awns are not only a fecund nuisance they can be a menace in animal fur or woolen clothing the unseen corner over the back fence is choked with them i ll have to be extra vigilant when the wind blows from the south and then my back having had enough bending i straightened up and took a camera for a walk the allamanda can t seem to stop daffodils are out of the question here but i glory in the matching yellow and similar fragrance and that s about the colour of our walls too and the rain has been kind to the gloriosa allowing another flush before it goes to sleep an un named bromeliad bought at a school fair years ago two of our anthuriums i rather like the purple i ll leave you with the soursop two that we can see but possibly another higher up the tree a lonely little petunia featured dinahmow 14 comments not in the onion patch it was adding a glorious pop of colour to some herbs apparently possums like petunias i despair the furry fiends have decimated my rumex and we have what s known as the parsley routine which involves clearing the buckets and clothes basket from the laundry bench each evening and bring in the pots of parsley and of course taking them out in the morning but moving on while trying to find an easier method of getting pictures bigger than a postage stamp onto the blog i came across an oldie of the hoya these beauties will not or at least rarely flower unless their roots are confined so i left mine in its dinky little pot and it died that s when i discovered that ants had invaded and the poor hoya was running on empty as the little sods had got rid of the compost but that s pfft in the bigger scheme of things like covid you will i m sure have heard read seen the news that brisbane capital city of the state of queensland along with several surrounding communities is in lockdown now here s the thing settle down you wastrels at the back this is important no muriel not now muriel just go to your room and i ll explain it all later yes you can have special tea where was i oh yes lockdown if you have google earth and if it s working mine was not working at 5am but i think the elves have fixed it you can see that mackay where i live is considerably further than up the road from brisbane so can anyone explain why when i went to my local shops this morning i was the only person not wearing a face mask we wont count the fellow whose mask was doing a grand job of protecting his chinny whiskers but bugger all for the rest of us at the first supermarket a hand written sign definitely not written by the lovely https wonky words com blog informed me that they were out of facemarks next store they didn t think they sold them the only pharmacy had a hand written sign advising out of stock on a whim i popped into one of those cheap n cheerful discount stores where a helpful woman told me they d sold out but were hoping to get more that afternoon there are now who knows how many people going hither and yon possibly carrying the highly infectious uk strain plus another mutation of said strain one of the chaps who d been to byron bay again check your distances from mackay is a tradesman who also works as an entertainer i suppose he does strippergrams for hen parties he s a tradie after all blustery showers and the possibility of big rain so i m off to the shops i m back if only briefly featured dinahmow 15 comments march 28 times flies and you don t need to be having fun to be aware of the fact i am still fiddling with photos and trying to get some that don t require you to drug your old granny and pinch her sherlock holmes hand lens and things have been hectic around here that wonderful rain we had last week seems to have dried up so i m running a hose in an area that needs a drink well it s household drinking water after all and i like to share that s a big fat lie i do not like watering the gardens with drinking water other than rain i have no choice the moon this morning was like a giant orange floating in the sky must have been some sneezies in the upper atmosphere i did try to snap a quickie but by them time i d fed ravenous cats and grabbed a camera the light was all wrong but it looked like this a snap i took a few years ago looking east from a hill near home unsurprisingly google has been flooded with moon queries here is a link to an astronomer s page for those who might want to know why they are going mad more moon facts https theconversation com why is the moon bright is easter a full moon how long does a full moon last your moon questions answered by an astronomer 158061 going back a while for this a late blooming hippeastrum time to don the chef s hat don t try to put this on your sidebar mr inexplicable stanley likes to think outside the box floundering featured dinahmow 14 comments years ago whenever i spent holidays at the beach we d go floundering that is we d attempt to catch flounders also called sole dabs plaice by means of a spear not the easiest thing and sometimes feet got in the way another meaning of floundering is to stumble about collins dictionary says if something is floundering it may soon fail completely a good analysis of me and this blog let s try adding a photo stanley helping the gardener alamanda flower it grows up the verandah support post and flings itself about sometimes managing to sneak under the blind and tickle my ear when we eat outdoors can t say i mind and just to add a little spice to my day a thumping downpour just as well i m not in a zoom meeting the folks way up north have had a cyclone so i guess the remnants have come down the coast to us nothing damaging and the rain is wonderful by the time i have to head to the purveyor of plonk it may be gone yes i have been fiddling with photo sizes this is an indian hawthorn raphiolepis indica an obliging shrub small tree years ago a neighbour came home with one of these in a pot dead chuffed he was at his bargain it was 4 00 and it s over a metre tall a dollar a foot he was so excited he reverted to the old money and i have to agree with his yardstick the flower has little discernible scent but bees love it is generous with seed and grows readily from cuttings what s not to like that heavy rain has woken the rest of the household and neighbours so i ll be off to the kitchen i m still not sure i can be bothered to flounder around on this site and may de camp to the opposition again oh i forgot to tell you why i chose the blogger site s title well our prime minister is among the many who offer prayers and thoughts to people who are usually in much greater need of immediate practical aid when these prayers and thoughts are being dished out i angrily said it does as much good as bears in shorts a silly blog name but that s how i arrived at it return of the prodigal featured dinahmow 25 comments for clarification that means in dinah speak the gal has been prodded into action thank you jon and already i m making a right porridge of things actually no it was wordpress that made the porridge it turned my first attempt into a bulleted list be careful wordpress be very careful ere you become the target for my bullets where was i looking for photos i think hmmm i might have to nip out with the camera we ve had a couple of very welcome showers and all manner of things have burst into flower back soon or maybe not with new pictures a week or so ago the man found a frog you don t think that rates an well it s been a long time since we ve seen one here we did a silly happy dance and it s probably just as well neighbours were not around to see that back in our more rural days we had lots of these and many others you ve probably heard people in some parts of the world urging caution when putting on boots yes well where we lived the caution meant tip the frog out before you stuff your foot in our neighbour used to keep a spare key in the pocket of his waterproof jacket hanging on the back verandah that was in real estate parlance a froggy des res i m still having trouble with posting images i can enlarge them but well i d hate to scare the inexplicable one with a ginormous picture taking over his sideboard and now i can t seem to upload any photos i may have to take the laptop in the the laptop man no muriel he does not make that sort of house call and get him to do his clever thing muriel go to your room one more frog and on a sweltering 30 day and wishing for this https www flickr com photos 18554857 n03 45400480964 in photostream i ll toddle off and see if i can fix this camera glitsch some jobs are boring some are a bit on the nose featured dinahmow 25 comments i ll explain a little more in a minute but first i thought it was time i got back on this horse i seem to run out steam very easily these days the trick seems to be to get up with the flatulent sparrow do as much as needs doing outside before the hg goes nuts and then turn my attention to indoor chores a good plan yes hmmm not working as well as i d hoped fortunately the gardener s boy has greater stamina and has transformed most of the jungle into accessible um garden yes let s still call it garden other applicable words are a bit rude this is an allmanda it scrambles up the posts in front of the carport and unless i speak sternly about putting its brakes on would quite probably come indoors and i wouldn t really be very cross and this is a humble begonia 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