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Piwakawaka flit about dining on tiny flies caught on the wing. At this time of year they follow humans about as we disturb sandflies in the grass and bracken when we walk. They jolly near get underfoot at times. However it is not always all about what we disturb. The wee fellas have worked out that they can urge the humans to open the compost bin, releasing a feast of tiny compost flies for their delectation. Now dubbed 'the lunch box', the compost bin has acquired a patina of piwakawaka poop. On more than one morning when we have been a little tardy with the start of day routine we have looked up from breakfast to see little piwakawaka sitting on a post between the cabin and caravan, staring in at us and clearly trying to attract attention. Walk (by the path) round to open the lunch box and piwakawaka will have looped round the back and be sitting on the fence waiting for breakfast to be served. Fresh is best.

Bush Lawyer

Rubus cissoides Looks innocuous enough until it has you in its clutches. Escaping its grip without paying with your skin (or shirt) is virtually impossible. Related to blackberries but nastier <!-- end LinkyTools script --

Ocean Bay

Ocean Bay in the Port Underwood Sound isn't the easiest place in the world to get to but maybe that protects it from human overload. Saturday was a day of bleak weather but rain held off long enough for us to get there (over 20km of steep, winding, narrow, gravel road with evidence of many recent wash-outs in flooding we've experienced in the last 12 months of so. It took the Council Roads team most of the summer to repair last winter's wash-outs. The road is open but not restored in the sense that some of the washed out corners are a just a 'track' with a steep eroded drop on the down-side. Like Christmas lights (seaweed) Mr B pointed out this alligator with a wig There is a farm, and three or four holiday houses which clearly belong to intrepid folks. It's a great place to take a seaside holiday however. A midwinter grey day possibly doesn't show it at its best.

Zooming

Spider webs Zooming in you see the spider webs on the top left of the centre distance tea-tree. They caught my eye with sun shining on their dewi-ness like Xmas tree sparkles. No frost here yet but mornings are getting a bit chilly. I harvested my last zucchini a day or two ago and pulled the plants even though they were still making fresh new growth (but no flowers). Besides I needed their bit of garden to be reshaped as part of a drainage plan. I'm trying to redirect the run-off rainwater that comes sheeting down from the properties above us in heavy rain storms. We get three or four a year such events that threaten inundation. Inundation might be an exaggeration - the water continues downhill - I just hate slopping around in ankle deep water where it pools in my paths and parking places en route. Topsoil was dug out of the nacsent driveway so that some hardfill could be laid to reduce risk of trucks getting stuck. I'm slowly moving about 6 cubic metres of soil...

Yarning

Distractions this week: Rhubarb leaf dye. Rhubarb leaf dyed wool - the pullover it was prepared for will feature in a week or two Yarn purchased from a charity shop. Probably enough for two adult pullovers. I stripped the purple and azure apart because the azure on its own was a double knit equivalent. The two strands of purple stripped out got doubled up and the result is below...temporarily modelled by Scully. Joining up with Yam's Saturday Stitches

I Can Do Cute...

.... if I need to

Sunset Contemplation

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It's A Crazy World

No is easier to say than yes, but I seem to have trouble with the "no" word.....
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My Quiet Life in Suffolk

The 'Fery' Tale Continues!
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A Scottish Adventure .

Scotland 'enjoys' a heatwave.
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MY TAKE; doses of Wild YAM

Menoddsany; When The Sun Hits
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Yorkshire Pudding

Awry
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local-kiwi-alien

Poros Excursions - Methana and the Volcano
1 day ago
the aussie empty nester

In the garden
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Careering Through Nature

Return to Bat and Ball Action
6 days ago
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ZERO GOODNESS.NEW APP
6 days ago
Coffee on the Porch with Me

Strawberry Time
1 week ago
EAGLETON NOTES

Going to Glasgow
2 weeks ago
Magnon's Meanderings

Knives are out at No 10.
2 weeks ago
An English Homestead

All Wales Scout Camp 2026
3 weeks ago
Cathy @ Still Waters

I is back…..
4 weeks ago
The Diary of a Nobody

Taking A Break
1 month ago
Coming Up Close

Xmas decorations
6 months ago
Life In New Zealand

Farewell My Friends
1 year ago
A Yorkshire Memoir

A Yorkshire Memoir has moved
1 year ago
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