Monthly Archives

August 2016

  • On Living a Full Life

    Coming home, starting again

    We’ve arrived back home in Sydney after a long absence. We were away for eight months and we both started to miss home in a steady, ongoing kind of way. Before we came back,…

    August 19, 2016
  • In the Garden

    Hurstville Garden Diary 8 Aug 2016

    Today feels complete already (at 2pm) because I have had success with radishes and rocket. I think I planted them two months ago – maybe longer. The radishes are in a round, faux terracotta…

    August 8, 2016
  • In the Garden

    Hurstville Garden Diary 3 Aug 2016

    Today it’s raining. Steady rain like you see in the English countryside, I imagine. The Japanese andromeda (Pieris japonica) has been in bud since April. It’s a shrub I love because it was part of the…

    August 8, 2016