Family day out

Prize giving party

Winter scene

Silent snow

shape shifting in the sunlight.
Diamond’s woven into a cloak of navy blue

the scene is set for all things new.

Virgin snow casts its magic spell

nature knows us so very well,

Sprinkles of stardust

White moon, icy beams

Crispy crunchy crackle of winter.

This is a picture taken by my niece Linda (3 Dec) which I think sums up the weather at the moment.

Mick's cauliflower

Cauliflower fried rice is fantastic. grate the cauliflower in a food processer. Then nuke it for 10 minutes with a T of water. Check it after 7 minutes, you don't want it to turn to mush. Then stir fry whatever you have in the fridge green onions, peppers, bean sprouts, anything really. I don't bother with adding the eggs or meat. I add sesame oil, ginger, soysauce. Then I drain the cauliflower and add it to the fried veg. My friend makes it and adds so much veg and meat that her husband hasn't figured out its not rice!!

Philosophy for beginners

If a man is alone in the garden and speaks,and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

Chickens: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.


March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.- Probably May West

If, instead of talking to your plants, you yelled at them, would they still grow, only to be troubled and insecure?

The happiest gardeners have simply learned how to relax.