New Skin

 I have been putting off getting the mega dose cream which burns your skin off then lets it regrow. I have used this stuff before but could not bring myself to covering my whole head with it last time, so this is phase two where I will apply it to the back half of my scalp.  Let's see how long I last before I stop. I think it was two weeks last time as it was getting hard to sleep if I remember right.  The doc was upbeat about the COVID jabs. He said in France they stopped people sitting at cafes if they weren't double dosed. The take up rate exploded after that.

I think we have all forgotten what happens at airports. I remember these TSA guys. They almost made us miss a plane once.

Help Yourself

 Hydrangea plants seem to be finicky flowers. We inherited them here and Debbie is moving them for the third and last time. eg They are being moved closer to the bin but for now are in a new patch of ground. They were deprived of Sun when the lemon tree decided to double in size. It must have liked the fertiliser that has been placed in the area.  So as part of this job many more lemons have been plucked as well as attracting something with large teeth which is noring at them overnight. So the lemon tray is full again out the front and I saw a guy walking straight up to it however he was using the tap. Now we have been encouraging the help yourself system with plants, lemons, tomatoes etc however when did this extend to water and plenty of it? He was washing his dog and giving it a drink. 

colourful

What has large teeth and likes lemon peel?

last chance hydrangea

3km jog

 It seems it might be better for me to try the jog lately rather than the bike. Maybe it should just warm up a bit and I can try the swim.  I did do the jog and managed to get thru 3km. The main issue is being very attentive to the uneven ground.  A lot of the grass has been swept away and also sand has been piled up which really means it has been moved from somewhere else.  There used to be a flat placid trickle of water you could walk across down below our creek but today it needs proper fording if you want to go East rather than our normal Western route.  Next week it will look totally different.

deep rift

Garden Update No 935

 The garden bed out the back which is where the main produce has come from was rested over this Winter.  Also it meant the gardener could spend more time on the decorative and sculptured aspects out the front. However Winter is over so all the strawberries have been moved and relocated together in one place and are now set up in a long easily accessible line along the front of the bed. This hopefully will also frustrate the minor birds from digging around there and tipping half the bed onto the path.  Also the olive tree is alive with budding fruit even though it has been cut back recently. And lastly we still have more lemons, so many that we can't give them away, although I did notice at the fish shop the other day, they were taking lemon donations for a charity.  

Strawberry Fields

The Archives revisited

 Today requires indoor projects, as first thing this morning it was all thunderbolts and lightning that lasted about two hours. Now we have settled into continuous steady rain. So much for that two day Spring Sun. I have gone back to the archive box for a few letters and cards. This lot is spread over a 10 year period from mid 1980s to mid 1990s.  I wonder if Andrea still has the chart Debbie made for her. See letter.  The two post cards are from Paul Stork, who seems to be distracted from his painting tour of Europe by mini skirts and the other is from Leanne who was travelling in WA. She mentions the tree they saw but did not climb however some yar later Debbie and I came to that same tree and did climb to the top of it. The last one is from  my friend Loretta who is the author where recently I had a lot of trouble getting her book delivered from her publisher.   

Andrea Chart

Gloriette

Paul Stork painting across Europe

Gloucester Tree

Estelle checks out the yard

 It was a similar beach day to yesterday except for a stronger wind.  Lots of cars, lots of groups, a sign of warmer weather to come. I heard our mate TV Dan has admitted that the lockdowns don't work anymore but we are still going to continue with it.  Go figure.  Estelle was in the outdoors today exploring her backyard, probably not the best of days but if the Sun is out then get out and about.

Spring

 That was a slow lockdown Winter and good riddance.  22° today and from the line of cars out the front and also the family groups on the beach you would think it was mid summer.  I went in for some more water wading cum jogging but it is still pretty cool in there.  The beach is looking OK but with plenty of dried seagrass lying about. The biggest groups in the water are the paddlers who are mainly fishing.  Also small dinghies are mixing it with the fishing boats so if this is lockdown I'll go jump in the water. I think I worked out why the birds were congregating in the same piece of water for a few days. The fish never moved so the birds knew where to come back to.  We saw them stuffing whole fish down at one swallow.