Orchids, the latest obsession…

Fungi season finished a while ago, which was sad. Not massively sad to the point of sinking into a pit of depression, but sad enough. I think a big part of the sad is also that being the end of fungi…

Boots – Beams – Burnie

Last Wednesday night was the annual Advocate newspaper reader snapshot calendar awards night thingy. My little mate Leena landed Miss December, so we wandered on up to the North of the state to partake in some wine drinking and frock…

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…