Keep on walkin'

I know it's been a long long time but I thought I'd say a little hello just in case anyone still checks this blog!

Not much new to report on the vege garden, just the usual winter crop of spinach and silverbeet, and the herbs are all doing well - parsley, thyme, oregano all thriving, and little basil seedlings still poking through where we pulled out last year's plants.

Strawberries are taking over where we planted just one seedling last year, but I don't mind! Hopefully we'll get more fruit this spring.

We also put in a passionfruit vine which is happily twining up the chicken-wire, and some tomatoes of course.

Front garden is coming along too now, we've made another bed with pinks and reds, and a few roses I bought for a bargain $2.oo each! They were just twigs with roots, and half-dead I think, but this morning I saw that one has sprouted little shoots.

And I planted two Albany Woollybushes in the backyard. They're natives that I've seen around here, very pretty with soft pine-like needles, like a little fir tree.

Albert's growing up, he fills up the whole photo frame now!

A rose by any other name

If only we had smell-a-vision.

I wasn't going to plant roses because they're so conventional, but one rainy day I found myself in the rose section of the nursery, and I caved.

I walked around sniffing every rose before choosing this one. It's a Hybrid Tea Bush Rose - Mr Lincoln.

It was only a bud when I bought it, but the other day it opened and I wasn't disappointed. It has the best fragrance!

It's doing really well in the sand, I can see why people fill their gardens with roses here.

Fairy surprise

Look who arrived in the mail today!

Thank-you to whoever sent her, she is lovely! Here she is prettying up my new desk - just the girly touch it needs to make it mine.

And my other news is that I've got a new job, starting Monday, so it's back to full-time work again for me! Who knows, maybe I'll blog more often now that I won't have as much time to, that's the way it seems to work with me. Got to have that pressure otherwise I'll find a million other things to do with my time.

I'll be the new children's librarian, so will do storytime sessions (Albert's giving me lots of practice throwing my voice) and craft activities (Mum and K, I'm sure you have lots of ideas there), plus selecting books for kids and young adults, yay!

I'll also be the one people come running to when there's a problem with the online library system, so G I might be needing to avail myself of your technical expertise there. And Papa and Liz you can keep me up to date with all the latest internet technologies and new gadgets.

Aren't families wonderful? Thanks for all doing such diverse and useful things, they really come in handy to a bit of a bookworm like me.