HOORAY FOR SPRING! And some news.

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!

One warm day in Melbourne and I fully expect Summer.  Pity tomorrow's forecast is rain and freezing cold temperatures again.  Still one can HOPE!  Since returning from Spain I've been cocooned in woolies and swathed in blankets.  Feels so cold after all that heat.

Now then...I'm starting a blog over here at Little Kar Star for everything non-garden in my life.  I've realised this blog has meandered this way that way and over the hillside but I'm bringing it firmly back to gardening.  I lost my blogging and gardening mojo but I'm renewed!  The hens are hemmed in so no more pillaging through my garden and I'm encouraged by the sunshine.  Please come visit me over at my new abode too!

The apples finally decided to bloom a tiny little bit - lagging way behind the almond, plum, cherry and nectarines.

Look what sprung up whilst we were away...rogue broadbeans!  I'm not complaining  :)

Hope you are enjoying some sunshine too wherever you are!

Spring Spectacle

The plums were the first to blossom in the garden followed closely by the almond...the others are displaying promise in the swelling buds and the girls are all laying again!  The blue and green don't come up in this picture but they are very pale.

 

I think the ladies are happy in their new enclosure - I know my vegies are!  They still come out to free range  but only for a few hours each day instead of all day long!

Oh yes - I got new spectacles.  I snapped my old pair whilst out at drinks and desperate for a new pair of glasses, the next morning I unwisely let the optometry shop lady pick them for me as I couldn't see with my glasses off...and besides I was hungover from the night before!   The result?  Well.  There was much hilarity at work and when I arrived later at my desk I found it plastered like this - gives you an indication of what everyone thinks!

  Spring is almost here but until then I'll keep my beanie on.  And hide out until the laughter dies down.

Spring on my windowsill

Like my fellow garden lovers in Australia, I'm delighted that there is a definite Spring feel in the air  :)

Seeds are sprouting on my windowsills and in the garden, it's a magic time of year and I am more than ready to shake off winter!  I've bravely put seedlings of tomato carefully nurtured on the window still from seed out in the apple crates, knowing jack frost is still visiting through the week.  Silly aren't I...ever the optimist!

The potatoes in the empty chook feed bags are doing well I think...

And I've been enjoying the sunshine spilling through the window onto my little rocking chair under my fan palm, Professor Lewis Carroll.

Hypatia our mumma hen has even laid an egg for us and I'm very pleased is teaching the other young ones how to eat - that is, they watch her and copy her.  Her egg contributed to some baked goodies...

  

I'll leave you with a cartoon I giggled at whilst flicking through The Big Issue the other day...