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• Winter's Pleasant Depths

  

  Do you find that on today's internet you often read stuff that's of interest, but only a few days later you can't remember exactly where you read it? It's a cas... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Building My Holy Grail Car, a Panhard Dynavia

  

  Most model collectors have a 'holy grail' car that they long to own. When I started collecting, the car I call my 'holy grail', the Panhard Dynavia, was no... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 MOTO

• Deep-fried Quail

  

  Though I've been cooking for 50 years now, it's only in the last 12 months that I have become truly comfortable with deep-frying. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

  

  Shame about the environmental damage their smoky engines cause, but I've always had a soft spot for two-strokes. It was during my motorcycling youth, which I... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2014 MOTO

• American Beauty

  

  I might seem like a "French car fan" but the truth is that description is far too narrrow. I love cars from every country, but I also love machinery in any form... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 MOTO

• Citroen H Vans

  

  *Wakes from 9-month slumber*Wow, my last posting here at "The Die is Cast" was back in September last year. There's no particular reason for the big "sleep",... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 MOTO

• Weedling Or Seedling?

  

  When they'e little, all children are adorably cute, but it's a sad fact they don't all stay that way, especially once the hormones kick in. That's what's... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Being Co-operative – Week 4

  

  It's probably not that polite to say "hooray, it's over!", and besides, it's not really over. We still have to get through all this pile of vegies and fruit yet... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Home Wrecker!

  

  I'm not proud of this fact, but I am a serial home wrecker. As far as our resident paper wasps are concerned, I am an Aussie Attila the Hun, wreaking havoc on... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Morning Light

  

  Is there a time of day when your garden looks at its best? Here in our garden it's the morning. Our patch faces north-east, and so each day the low morning... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Being Co-operative – Week 3

  

  One very nice thing about the vegie co-op thing, at least the way my friends practise it, is the pleasant business of dropping around to someone's place to... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Lemon Grass

  

  "Hey, you can really see that it is a grass now," Pammy said as we both stood out in the garden this morning, admiring the lemon grass clump. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Being Co-operative - Week 2

  

  Go on, call me deadly dull, I don't care. I'm finding this vegie-co-op experience an interesting one. The way it works is that each week, a different couple fro... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• How Not to Grow Broccoli

  

  ? It's dead easy if you pick the wrong time of year. Here's how I did it. First, be lazy and buy a seedling, instead of seed. Then plant the seedling in... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Reading Matters

  

  File this blog posting under 'shameless self-promotion' if you like, but I'm featured in another blog this week, at the literary magazine, 'Meanjin'.Here's the... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Being Co-operative

  

  I'll have to be careful how I choose my words here. "I got us into this" is, I think, far superior to "It's all my fault". However you want to apportion blame o... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Wandering Star

  

  As the autumn finally delivers its first wintry chills, the succulents start to colour up. One of my favourites, which I've mentioned before, is this person,... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Happy Mothers Day

  

  Here's wishing all the mothers in Australia and elsewhere a very happy and pleasant Mothers Day today. I think they also celebrate Mothers Day on this same day... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• OK, Two More Free Plugs and That's It!

  

  I knew the floodgates would open the moment I gave Fair Dinkum Seeds a free plug in my last post. Well, maybe 'floodgates' is a bit strong to describe 'one... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Free Plug

  

  G'Day Gavin!It's called starting off on the wrong foot. Send an email to a complete stranger you're hoping to ask a favour of… and get his name wrong for... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2014 GARDENING, HOME