This is what I did when I was 16…
I had a pet rat called Ratticus, two green mohawks, safety pins through my ears a brown leather coat and pants held together with patches… And I used to enter my Irises into the Royal Horticultural Societies annual Rose and Iris show. I even took out a few first prizes. True story. It was on this past weekend, so we thought we would take a trip down memory lane and go and have a squizz.…
Naturising with Naturalists
It won’t come as a surprise to you, that the other day I finally joined the Tasmanian Field Naturalists. I had been meaning to for a while, but it was one of those things I kept forgetting to do, which also wouldn’t surprise you… However I finally remembered and took myself along to my first Tas Field Nat meeting on Thursday night and off on my first outing today. Green-lined Ground Beetle Why did I…
Reminding me why I miss Melbourne
We have been here close on two years now, each time we get visitors I get a little ‘Melbourne sick’. Not sick for the actual place, take that or leave it really. Okay, well sometimes when I desperately want Red Rooster chips or when I want to go and buy shoes at the Adidas shop, but aside from that I don’t really care about the place anymore. I miss my people though! I miss them…
Styx with Boots and Beams
I totally love the world. The world where there aren’t people. Not that I don’t like people, people are good value and can be highly entertaining at times, but I really really really love the world where plants and bugs and stuff outnumber the people. Having said that, there were people involved in today, but not like loads of people, just my people. My adventure people, 2 little ones and a big one, and me,…
Mount Misery | Still Not Miserable
Tas Field Nats ascend upon Mount Misery What a marvellous Sunday was spent wandering the tracks at Mount Misery with an equally marvellous group of people. The Field Nats last visited Mount Misery in 2018, you can read about it here. That post will give you some info on the walks and how to get there. I won’t bother repeating myself. I’m efficient like that… Back in 2018 I was going through a pretty strong fungi phase. Can’t remember if that was before or after my orchid one. Potentially…
Herbarium | Day Ten
We found this weird Stellaria up in the central plateau a while back. We didn’t really notice it was weird at first. We just kinda went ‘it’s a Stellaria, it’s probably just S. multiflora’ and then moved along looking for what we were there looking for. Which was a Senecio and some Carex. Anyways, I took some photos, because it was really cute and planned to just ID it later. Turns out, that Stellaria multiflora (both subspecies) don’t actually have flowers. Well they do, but they don’t. They don’t…
TFGC #3 | Holy cheese balls
Saturday we had a little open mat in Launceston. However it was so much more than a little open mat. It was a freaking amazing open mat! With a whole bunch of equally freaking amazing women from all over Tasmania. I’m still a little bit mind blown at the support this little venture has garnered so far. For those of you who are sitting there wondering what this is all about, I made a post about it a little while back, you can find it here: Tasmanian…