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August 29, 2007
Over achiever
Bantams lay one egg every second day. THAT is a rule.
Bluey the chook has never had much time for rules. From the first she was the most out-there of our four chooks, setting off where other more cautious bantams were loath to go, confronting the local cats, playing chicken on the path with Jacob on his bicycle and out-ninja-ing the three year olds.
So it should come as no suprise that Bluey the chook is once again doing her own thing and laying an egg every day. Just because she shouldn't!
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August 28, 2007
Homework
Our builder gives us homework. As we are too cheap to pay him to do everything we are going to be responsible for the finishes; painting and stains. Over the weekend he left some of the windows he'd had built for us to stain, so that they would be ready to be fitted this week.
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August 27, 2007
Infamous
Famous for all the wrong reasons at the local stock feed store, (Andrews in Sydney Rd, Coburg) I was beginning to despair that my four bantams would ever lay an egg! At ten months not only had they never laid but just to add insult to injury it looked as if one was going broody on me. Damn cheek I thought, all things considered. Lucky for them they are too small for the pot!
All is forgiven though as the recent onset of spring-ish weather has set two of them off simultaneously. We now get two eggs every second day. Hopefully the other two will soon follow suit and we'll have a full complemnt of layers! Maybe it was the broccoli?
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August 24, 2007
The before shot
Here in all it's yellow-brick-fifties glory is the garage at the bottom of our garden. This has been a treasure trove of found objects since we moved in but now that we have exhausted it's contents we are moving on to Phase 2. Phase 2 is the transformation of the garage into what we like to call, (with a nod to Centerparcs), the 'Bungalow-deluxe'! The bungalow-deluxe will have several roles, one as a studio/office for myself and another as a place for people to stay when they come on extended visits. Recently we discovered a third, the winter sun which floods the space making it the warmest room in the house during the cold months. Thus, On weekends we'll be trooping down the garden path to our 'bungalow-deluxe' armed with coffee and sunday papers.
Fascinating in-progress shots to follow next week.
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August 23, 2007
All is forgiven
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August 14, 2007
Dead chooks walking
Thats the remians of my broccoli you're looking at! AND the culprits.
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August 13, 2007
More butterflies
Another review of The butterfly month, this time in the Sydney Morning Herald. A very perceptive one, I thought.
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August 03, 2007
Butterflies
The Butterfly Month has been released (Scribe Publications) and reviewed. Much to my enormous relief the review, in the August Readings Monthly Newsletter, is positive. Phew! More than that it even acknowledges the existence of a translator! Also in a positive sense, thank god!
I popped down to Readings to get my copies of the newsletter and couldn't resist taking a photo of the novel on the Staff Recomendations shelf of the New Fiction section.
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August 02, 2007
Pirates of Brunswick
Blackheart Jacob's pirate ship sails through a very wintry Brunswick garden.
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