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BREAKING MORE PROMISES!

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     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, t...