
My rarely-used acrylic paints live in a fabulous large basket, gathering dust. One day I’ll get back to them …

My rarely-used acrylic paints live in a fabulous large basket, gathering dust. One day I’ll get back to them …


I’ve had these dragonfruit cuttings jammed in a pot for years. They periodically flower, but never set fruit. I should get them in the ground; they might do better if they could spread out.

Three photographers and a sketcher watched the reddish egret pose and dance in the lagoon’s shallows.

Hoping we don’t need to see any of these in our neighbourhood this fire season.


Sometimes you need the big guns.

You know when you put off doing something because you think it’s hard, and then you finally do it and it was really easy? So you wonder why on earth you didn’t do it long ago? Yeah, that.
When my first key stopped opening the car door remotely, I put it away and used the second key until its battery also started dying. This morning I spent a few minutes on Youtube, then realized that I had the right sized batteries. Voila, both fobs are now resuscitated. I don’t know if I should feel inordinately pleased with myself or embarrassed that it took me so long to get to such a simple task.
Now I’m asking myself, what other inconveniences am I tolerating that could be mitigated with less than five minutes’ effort?


Food from the garden, such a pleasure.