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we're getting towards the end of the tomatoes, I picked a few handfuls today and the rest will be in a race against the warm weather
the zucchini have nearly finished, there are around seven finger-sized ones still growing, about the same number smaller, yellow and starting to rot
Ouch, coffee gone up from $4.00 a cup last year, $4.50 in January, $4.75 now
after a few days of only finding a single strand or not even that, this morning the orb spider's web is back in all its glory
lemon tree along the fence isn't looking well, pale small leaves and dropped a lot of them, much smaller than the lime & orange trees
the orb spider still spins her web most nights, but the wind and rain destroy most of it by morning
finally rid of the old fridge!
Yay, Jo put it back on gumtree last week, now that uni is back and sold it to a student who is living in a flat down on Warrigal road. No car so we took it down there for them, after wrestling it through the house, down the steps, across the garden and into the car… where it fitted, amazingly. (approx. 70x70x170cm)
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Picking up a fallen lime I spotted a black and white caterpillar on the lime tree
We’ve seen a few of the large black and white orchard butterflies around, I took a photo and checked up the picture online, seems to be a Dainty Swallowtail (Papilio anactus)
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The orb spider got me – I didn't see her in the dark
Going out early on the bike, still dark as I walked down the garden and I must have broken some of her web to get the bike. Coming back I was closer to the plum tree and just as I saw her hanging in the remnants at about thigh height I walked into it… and her. Nothing quite like the feel of sticky spider web and a large orb spider running down your leg to get the adrenalin flowing first thing in the morning
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There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.