Sorry for my absence, I’ve been stuck in traffic. More specifically, behind THIS fucker:
I think the part that gets me the most is that this is the sort of person who drives inconsiderately – sitting miles below the speed limit in the right hand lane – then complains about the aggressiveness of other drivers. I mean, have you SEEN Australia drivers? They will take you out without a second look, then reverse blithely over your shattered hatchback. I sense doom approaching for this self-righteous letter writer (or is that a tautology?)
In other news, I am slowly building my photo reserves back up:
I took this photo to send to my nana, as when I was home at Easter she wanted my sister and I to take whatever we wanted out of her china cabinet. She has moved into a rest home and has no room for her things. So on my kitchen windowsill last week were both the hand-etched measuring beaker (in pints! no she can’t remember who made this or what it was used for!) and a little blue faceted glass jar. The dead looking vine out the window is the grapevine, which was really pretty in summer and autumn. A surprising amount of plants have survived our benign neglect over the few months we’ve owned this house… although I think lavender and grapevines are both pretty hard to kill? That’s what we’re banking on anyway. I would say ‘send rain’, but we have heaps. Thanks.
Stuck behind drivers like that, you’ve gotta wonder why front-of-the-car-attached melting lasers are illegal, huh! lol
Oh, one place I lived in here had a HUGE ornamental grape vine… always looked pretty bleak this time of year. Come the warmer months, all was fine again.
Cyalayta
Mal :)
LOVE the blue jar! How nice of your grandma to pass things along to you while she can still watch you enjoy them.
I’ve never had any luck with lavender, none at all. It makes little difference if I tend to it with great care or neglect it… it just want grow for me.
see you, g
Wow, both are really lovely. Also, how did that guy from Florida post in an Aussie paper???
Send him up to Sydney for a day. Bondi Junction Westfield carpark. He wont last ten minutes – crushed beneath the beautifully engineered wheels of a Series 5 BMW. You might do it with integrity in Melbourne – Sydney does it with heartless style.
Benign neglect here too. Luckily the sprinkler system means that it’s a bit more merciful.
Best wishes
It’s actually against the law to drive slow in the fast lane. If someone’s up your arse, it’s your JOB to move into a slower lane and let them through.
Well, I think that’s true anyway. It’s what I yell at Sunbury drivers when i’m stuck up their arse in the fast lane anyhoo :p