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15 Sep 2022 4 minute read 5 comments bengy
Ahhhh... last night I had driven back home from Sydney immediately after the concert to be able to be back home with my family for a least a whole day! So, when the kids had gone to school.. my wife and I (and her father) ended up spending a lon...
7 Sep 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Phew... this was a luxury! An entire day at home to try and get some backyard work done! Except... I had to go into get some other administration chores done in the morning, and so what I was hoping to be a full day of mucking around in the gard...
14 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
This was the last snatch of gardening that I was able to manage before I left on tour... I had a concert in this evening, and after that a flight to get away and on a chain of projects that would have me mostly away with little moments back at h...
11 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
I have little days here and there in my touring schedule where I am making an effort to return home to help out with the kids... and to do a bit more on the garden so that it starts to look less like a muddy bogpit and more like a home! This lit...
10 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments ddar1
Ingredients as follows: SAUTEE: homemade seasoning saltsweet corn kernelsparmesean cheesebutter--1/2 stickchopped carrots--2 cupschopped red potatoes--3 whole potatoeschopped onion shallots----8 smallchopped garlic--- 10 cloves add 1.5 pints of t...
4 Aug 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Today was a crazily wet and windy day in Canberra and the surrounds... as I've mentioned before in previous garden journals, we have recently had our stormwater and sewage redone after the trees decided to take up residence in the old pipes. Tod...
28 Jul 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Yesterday was supposed to be a day of getting stuff done... and I did manage a good deal, but it really got quite bogged down with administrative sorts of things which was a good deal less exciting than it sounds! However, at the end of the day....
25 Jul 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
Now that the garden area is a complete blank slate (and in some cases... really seriously blank...), it is time to start making it our own. Of course, these things will take years and seasons to finish... but the best way to get there, is to jus...
20 Jul 2022 4 minute read 4 comments bengy
Well... the front of our house (and the back) is looking a little bit denuded at the moment. So many small trees and shrubs needed to be removed to make a path for the trenches of the pipework. I had moved a couple of the bottle-brushes beforeha...
18 Jul 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
... and we have come back from our holidays, and the big works to our garden area is mostly completed. The trenches were dug, the pipes for stormwater and sewer were laid, and a huge swathe of destruction carved its way through our block of land...
