Posted by jerry on January 8th, 2006 — Posted in Journal
This morning we had a surprise visitor in our garden – it was about 9.30AM and we heard some commotion from a local magpie. On further investigation it appeared that a rat – an escaped pet by the look of it – was trying to make off with one of the lovely juicy peaches frm our peach tree!
The poor thing was clearly hungry, and out well past its bed time! The rat was quite scared of the magpie but hunger made it persistent and in the end it managed to make off with one of our peaches.
Cheers
Jerry
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Posted by jerry on January 7th, 2006 — Posted in Journal
The 18 January 2003 bushfires had razed the forest to the ground. Since then it has lain fallow pending redevelopment decisions and the new Canberra Plan. A quick walk around the local area a couple of days ago showed that new growth is afoot!
Just a few weeks ago strange green plastic triangles started springing up all over the old forest – presaging a new planting
The area is currently high with weeds – like this delightful Scottish thistle – a curse in the garden
But is it going to be just a plantation of native eucalyptus trees? Time to venture closer to investigate…
Ah! the are is divided into regions – some planted with oaks, some with sycamores, and some with gum trees – so we will have a variety of foliage at the end of our street
Cheers
Jerry
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