Some Enchanted Day – The Garden Of St Erth
After I had kids, people would say to me, but what about your creative pursuits – your writing and your …
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The Bee’s Knees, And All The Other Important Bits
Unsurprisingly, The Buzz has intended a post on bees since conception. And then, just a week ago Andrew Lang said …
Cool As A Cucumber, And Twice As Nice
Somebody described me as a cucumber the other day. I took that as a compliment. I adore cucumbers, of all …
Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’
On days when the temperature is set to soar into the high 30s and then past 40, I get up …
The Heat is On …
The handy guy, or Stefan, as he’s otherwise known, has a penchant for chillies. While last summer he kept referring …
Maggie’s Garden
I have a thing about odd numbers; I don’t like the number 133 for example. But I don’t mind multiples …
You Say Tomaytoes, I Say Tomahtoes, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
They say, when you have writer’s block, you should write about something you know. Well, I can honestly say, after …
‘Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.’
The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of …
A Small Place
I’ve unashamedly stolen the title of this post from Jamaica Kincaid, who, in the late 1980s, returned to the island …
The Art of the Garden at Heronswood
A week or so ago, during what might become known as Melbourne’s ‘windy period’, when it seemed like we’d never …
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