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Just today I think we came close to causing a riot in the check-out queue at the supermarket. The operator, me, and the woman in the queue behind me had a 10 minute conversation about what we felt about turning sixty. Complete strangers, both of them - but I know that one turned 60 in April and the other will be sixty next May. One’s mother died 20 years ago at 63, and the other’s mother is still alive at 82, and had a stroke 15 years ago. Well, maybe not 10 minutes, but the queues were all about 4 deep - so it felt like 10 minutes!
Yesterday, I had a man come to look at trimming the big Moreton Byron Bay Fig tree I have in my front yard. It has started to hit the TV aerial and needs attention quickly. It turns out that we had met some years before, and so we got to chatting - he is a youngish man, and tells me he is living in his great-grandmother’s house.
Tree viewed from the street
and from my front door
He seems to be very knowledgeable about gardens and trees and plants, and he was wandering around my backyard, enthusing about the things I have there - he said it really reminded him of backyards he had known as a child, and just like his great-grandmother’s garden. Hmmm ... not sure what that says, but I thought it was an interesting idea.
to spellcheck or not... ?
TextTrust, which sells Internet spell-check software, has corrected the news release it sent out last week in which it mentioned:
"the 16 million we pages it has spell checked over the past year."
I followed a link from Alice’s place and found a delightful frog garden.
some great planting ideas,
and photos - here is one is of the Brisbane skyline:
Thanks Roy...
and now that we all have more time:
...this one from Jude at long-toothed hinterland dweller
who knows about these things...
How to Eat Australia
growing, finding and using Australian Bushfoods.This site contains information on finding edibles in the wild, planting those edibles in a domestic setting, eating those edibles, and where to find other sources of Australian edibles.
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Heh heh, I can imagine the impatience brewing behind you, Della! And heaven help you if you had got into the "12 items only" queue by mistake.
Does your Moretone Bay Fig tree have that beautiful root system? SO Queensland!
Spellcheckers - nope, I don't trust them, and really resent it when Microsoft "corrects" the spelling while you're typing!
Morton, not Mortone, as I saw as I hit the Login and Publish button...
What a beautiful Moreton Bay Fig but they do grow sooooo huge. I think that young man was giving you a compliment when he said your garden reminded him of his grandmother's. People knew how to grow gardens back then and I think it was a nicer time.
The Brisbane skyline is quite distinctive isn't it? We love our city!
Take care
Ah, it is a MORETON BAY FIG, not Byron Bay, otherwise looks good.
Hello Della thanks for visiting my blog. I visit a school friends site in england called "friends reunited' I'm sure there is an australian version. cheers Roy
Don't you just love people, Della?
It constantly amazes me how much you can learn about a person in ten minutes, in the grocery store. Although some people won’t even return a noncommital smile, that same smile may open another person like a faucet.
Most of the time I am content to be a ‘people watcher’ but sometimes I get drawn into conversations that leave me feeling that I have connected with the human race again.
I’m pretty sure that’s a very big part of what life is all about.
Take care.
Norvona
Hi Della. Thanks for the kind words on my blog. I have seen the film Pollock (I wanted to watch it as soon as I heard it was being made, both because I love Jackson Pollock and Ed Harris!). I've loved Jackson Pollock's work since I saw "Blue Poles" at the National Gallery in Canberra when I was in high school. There was huge controversy when that was bought in the early 70s for $1,000,000 - everyone thought they could do better and it wasn't really art. But I have always adored all his work.
I've since added more to the paintings I posted - I will need to take some pictures and post them again.
I was just reading through your blog and noticed that you come from where I now live (Townsville). I've only heard of one other blogger from up this way.
Was great meeting you :)
thanks Val, I turn all the auto-spell auto-correct things OFF; let ME be in control, I say! I think the tree with roots is different, Noel says he thinks it is called a 'strangler fig' - I will go and look. Photos of the cut tree coming up!
Puss- I cannot believe how much Brisbane has changed in the last 10 years. When I first got back here in 1982 after 30 years away, nothing much had changed. I think it is the coming City of this new millenium.
Thanks for visiting Roy - I will check out the 'friends' links.
Norvona, exactly as you say, a smile and a hello has changed some of the sourest puss faces I have ever seen.
Tanya, I don't know where Townsville people hide out - living away for 40 years and travelling about quite a bit - I have only ever met ONE other person who came from Townsville. thanks for visiting...
Della, interesting that on opposite sides of the world our blogs both recently touched on edible greens. (Or should that be "nibbled on"? Yecch...)
Steve aka The Big Geez
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