BREAKING MORE PROMISES!
I promised I would try to update this more regularly. Was that a lie? Or a broken promise? How about a picture of a Kowhai ( Sophora ) in glorious flower? I'd love to grow it here, but the summers would probably do for it. We are still waiting for some rain...it's a good thing that we have the water tanks! Only a stop-gap, of course, but at least garden water is not coming out of the rates bill. Just around the corner from our flat is a glorious, old jacaranda and I keep saying I must take a camera and get some photos. I shall do that, right now! You chaps nip out and either put your kettles on or pour a Pimms, depending on your time zone... Aaaand, I'm back. With a jacaranda for you. But I was so excited at a pair of Red-Tailed cockatoos Calyptorhynchus banksii I spent more time trying to get them on film. Well, the jacaranda will be there for quite a while, but these birds don't hang about for glamour shots! I might try