tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24728991373014631972024-03-13T20:16:25.344+11:00Flower GardenAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.comBlogger836125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-13737460135036007612017-11-03T22:01:00.003+11:002017-11-03T22:27:03.460+11:00Checking in for Chooky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When a bloggy friend sends you a text during History Class and asks if you're OK . . . and that she's missing my posts . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I thought I'd better post, but couldn't believe it had been 6 months since my last post. Just shows how happiness has affected me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">LOVED my Prunis Elvins this year. I have stretched to 3 of these trees in my garden and they always blossom on my daughters birthday. No exception this year, and I even had coffee with my daughter on the day. Big milestone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Went looking for crocs in Queensland last holidays</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. . . was very excited to see them up close and personal, from the other side of my ZOOM lens!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some lazing around has been going on, and some serious gardening, and life in general. I'm more than OK. Twas nice to be missed.</span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.com217tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-34540684965380957832017-05-07T09:18:00.000+10:002017-05-07T09:21:42.902+10:00Tea Anyone?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A retired friend of mine has joined the Succulent Society. I have always been interested in them and have told her that when I retire, I will join too! In the mean time, I've been enjoying finding interesting ones to add to my collection. Look what my mum surprised me with the other day. I just love it. It's one of her special old cups that she had got a hole drilled in the bottom of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yesterday my boy played in a school band at Booktown in Clunes. It was a lovely trip out in the country and the music was great. I just can't help pulling the car over, however when I see great pictures like this on the side of the road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. . . and with the inclement weather, it was a great afternoon to focus on Sock Making. I almost nearly have the recipe right. Lots and lots of trial and error with the knitting machine. Just have to relax a bit more when I'm casting off!</span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-30061102538063668022017-05-01T14:03:00.001+10:002017-05-01T14:03:24.791+10:00The Days are getting colder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm not quite ready for Winter yet. There is always so many jobs in the garden and lots of colour still happening - not just leaves this year but lots of flowers and bulbs too. I have been busy planting my Spring Bulbs, but still have a few to go in the shed. I keep finding bags of them that I have tucked away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Normally in Autumn I am busy crochering, but I haven't even started yet. i was excited to purchase some wool from Lucy Lockett Land and am going to cast on some socks tomorrow on my knitting machine. That is if the weather doesn't look good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have made some new guards around some of my garden beds with corrigated iron edging and used some of my rocks to build up other bed edges. The black birds in the garden have been annoying me, and kicking up the dust and even dislodging bulbs and little plants. I've used bits of wire too, to put them off a b it, but they are pretty persistent. Now my cats are not in the garden they have a new found confidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Autumn Flush of roses is alwys welcome and I am really making the most of the last ones, picking some for inside. I have a lot of black spot at the moment even though I've sprayed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Pink Crinums put on a good show this year. The best ever - they must finally be comfortable where they are. There are a few hiding under my hydrangea's that i will need to move in the winter time. I just have to remember. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still do declare that Autumn is my favourite season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite there being no blog post in MARCH, there was indeed a lot happening in the world of Flowergardenannie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been loving my dahlia's and posting them regurlaly on Instragram - it's so quick and unfortunatley has taken away from the lovely blogging world. That's progress I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then on the long weekend my Quilting Group (The Begonia Quilters - check out thier blog too) - held an exhibition in the centre of Ballarat in the old Mining Exchange building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are some of my quilts on display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then when it was all over, I decided to cut up all my old favourite scrap pieces and make 16 blocks and put them together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beautiful Zinnia's too that I grew from seed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My baby turned 17</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The belladonna's were magnificent . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. . . and my Ginger Lillies had their best year ever - 2 meters high and lots of them all at once. The smell was amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now hand quilting with Pearl Cotton no.8 and a preview of what's happening outside my back door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The end of the second month 2017 already - Still warm here in Ballarat, and thankful for my airconditioner. Also thankful for only working 3 days a week this year. I am loving it already. 3 days on then 4 days off - I actually get to breathe and am enjoying the quiet times. I find that I don't put on radio or TV, just enjoy the peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Gladioli's are all coming out into brilliant bright flowers right outside my back door. This photo doesn't tell the full story as they are quite magnificent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am quitetly preparing for The Begonia Quilters Exhibition which will be on the long weekend in March. I am putting sleeves on the back of quilts for hanging and going through my stash getting ready for the Recycle Your Stash stall. I am hoping to get rid of a lot of my excess stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In between loving my garden of course. I have some more dahlia's coming out which I'm looking forward to. I will definitely be planting more of those next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abraham Darby is one of my favourite roses. 2 at my front door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is the finished quilt front on. A little bubble at the bottom, but I'm happy to have finished something, and have a fresh quilt hanging in my living space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I uncovered an old one that was waiting for quilting, so I just might do it too while I'm in the mood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided it was time . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went into the sewing room and looked around. Then I looked around again and just didn't know where to start. I made a huge mess on the floor, and then thought . . . what next!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only logical thing I could think of was - MAKE A QUILT -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So I set about cutting and piecing and quilting and a week later, it was hanging on the wall. Satisfaction as a distraction. Now I still have a mess in the sewing room and will need to face it, but I can always walk around the garden instead.</span></div>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-57481621685045157512017-02-05T20:04:00.000+11:002017-02-05T20:04:05.252+11:00Family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When I think about family, it means all sorts of different things to me. I left home at 18 and lived a long way away from my nuclear family. Although I kept in constant contact with my mum and dad, who were a great support to me, I needed more than that. I needed to find people close by who loved me and would be "on hand" so to speak when I needed them - up close and personal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Initially I sought out Aunties and Uncles, cousins, and made special friends. These people were my family. When I ventured away from the halls of residence, where may I say, those people had become my family by then - I started meeting neighbours, people at work and building networks around me. This practise has continued through my life and I have had some wonderful neighbours and friends which I consider part of my family still.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I had young children, and my parents were still very far away, I needed more help - the kind a young mum needs. I would have loved my mum to be close by, but she wasn't. I found a couple of lovely older women, who supported me as a mother would. One of them had actually been a friend of my mother's when I had been a baby, so that friend was particularly special. I considered them part of my family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having moved a few times over the years, I have strongly valued the importance of building a supportive network around me. These people have not been part of my original nuclear family, but have been a very important part of my life. When my children were young, I totally agreed that:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">"It takes a village to raise a child"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now my father is no longer with us and I am lucky enough to have my mother close by. My 2 sisters don't see eye to eye, so what does that mean for my family? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I met with my daughter yesterday for the first time in over a year. We had a milkshake together and talked. Then she said that she no longer had a family and her life was going to be bad forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I did point out that she was well, healthy, lived independently, had a job, had a career underway at uni, had a boyfriend, had money in the bank, had a mum and a dad, 2 brothers, a Granny, a Nana and Opa, LOTS of Aunties and Uncles, cousins and friends. From my side of the table, her life was looking pretty good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yes, our nuclear family has been broken - but it's still there and always will be. It just looks different from what I first imagined it to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Families come in all shapes and sizes - she's 19 and has very strong ideas of what is right and what is wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When I asked her if I'd see her again . . . she said</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">". . . maybe . . ."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Parenting is hard!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I need help from the Village</span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-80501797548545672732017-01-23T21:33:00.000+11:002017-01-23T21:33:16.596+11:00Happy New Year 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been doing a lot of things differently lately, and this holiday was no exception. I just think that perhaps my life has changed and I am changing with it. I actually booked a holiday well in advance and was able to look forward to it. It has made the long summer holidays disappear quickly, but that's OK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went on a holiday to New Zealand with my new partner and my mother. Watching her enjoyment of all things new, was such a joy as she had never been on such a holiday before. She is 85 and had to get her first passport which was very exciting. We took the bus to Melbourne, and boarded a cruise ship that was wall to wall luxury. We enjoyed feeling very spoilt for 2 weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know if I'm just getting fussy, or I'm actually going off coffee. Is it my age? I'm not sure. Is anyone else feeling the same? I love the idea of coffee dates, and the smell, but I'm just not feeling the love that I used to feel for it. I'm a bit sad about it really. What else does one drink on a "coffee date?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Kiwi Farm we went to was great. I loved seeing them all hanging on the vines - thousands of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. . . and the scenery was like magic. It was a lovely place to go for a holiday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Now I'm back in "Normalsville" and it's almost time for school to start again, it feels but a dream. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I've done a bit of travelling these last couple of years, so now it is time to bunker down and pretend to be serious about work...or not...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Either way there's always plenty of gardening to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You wait all year for these</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then on one day - 14 flowers all at once</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. . . and they only last a day and a bit. I wanted to pull up a deck chair and just gaze at them - but alas, I had to go off to school that day!</span></div>
<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-67721725858004600092016-11-20T16:12:00.001+11:002016-11-20T16:12:47.983+11:00My Heart Can Sing Half A Song<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to all my blogging friends out there who sent words to me last week on the replies. I was desperate with worry and didn't know quite how much until my son finally answered my call last Friday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I broke down in tears and wept for my boy - my baby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I was scared to hang up the phone in case he didn't pick it up again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He is fine - just got sick of the city and all it entails and locked himself away for 2 whole weeks. I told him next time to just let his mother know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's a 50% success rate with my lost children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'll keep working on my other one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's another view from my new office. Not too shabby!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been having a lot of fun making terrariums lately with succulents. My youngest wanted one for his room, so I got busy and found a little garden gnome to put in with it. I have made it in an old giant coffee jar. He lives with his dad now, so I was pleased he wanted me to make something for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a picture of Miss Flowergarden. This is all I see of her these days. She hasn't spoken to me since August 2015. She says I have ruined her life and she doesn't believe in separation. She certainly doesn't believe in re-partnering and finding happiness again in life. I am at a loss with her. I miss her - I feel that I have lost my only daughter. She is very determined for a young person of 19. I fear she has many hard life lessons to learn and I wonder if I'll ever see her again. My eldest son has also gone missing this week. He has just gone AWOL - off the radar - not to be contacted. He has lost his job in the city because he didn't turn up to work. He has Asperger's Syndrome and although he is 21 and high functioning, he also lacks a lot of insight into society, people, emotions and communication. My heart is breaking for these 2 children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh thank goodness for my garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First of all, I have a new job. Still teaching, but driving this bus full of library books around to 8 little country schools, teaching literacy lessons. It's a 'sea-change' of sorts and very different to being in a big school of 540 kids going to schools now of about 12. Lots of alone time which I like and the most beautiful country views.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I get home, I like to hang out in here. My hot house is becoming a favourite place to relax after work. Sometimes I even have my breakfast out there. My plants love it too and from inside I get a beautiful view of my garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is one of my daily views as I drive along.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've done a spot of practical sewing. My church pew got painted and jazzed up a bit, so I got new foam and covered it. With the same fabric, I re-covered the cushions in the hot house on my new second hand couch. Everything old is new again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have had spectacular blooms in my garden this spring. I forget what's coming so it's always a surprise. These beared iris are very special outside my back door. I think my neighbour must have given them to me, as they divide each year and share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a big shed tidy up and found these mirrors just sitting around. They used to be part of an old dressing table that was dismantled at one stage. They have been very cleverly installed in my garden to make it look like I can see through the neighbours fence. I just love them and they have added a special dimension to my garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the shed tidy, I found an old cymbal that I made into a bird feeder. I put it where I can view from my hot house. I love watching the birds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hmmmm ... which brings me to the next story ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">do you see this little yellow canary? Well I have 4 different rouge ones flying about my garden. They talk to the ones in the aviary and seem very happy living in the wild. I don't know if they were ones that have escaped in the past, or others - they are there every day, so I have put a feeder on the outside of the cage and they happily use that. They bath in the garden bird baths and seem to be friends with the sparrows. </span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-62490524937261172172016-10-26T21:46:00.003+11:002016-10-26T21:46:56.650+11:00Tip Toe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So much pleasure was derived from this pot of Tulips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were right outside my back door, so I was able to drink in their beauty each time I looked outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The morning sun shone on them and they just called me out again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They lasted a good month and were well worth planting</span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-18753338075979367942016-09-19T21:04:00.001+10:002016-09-19T21:05:13.308+10:00Holiday Gardening<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So happy to be on holidays from school and to be in my garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lots of lovely treasures every day to find out there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have some projects that I'll be working on - some new paths and some painting of my hot house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The combinations of these colours is just magic!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My daughter's Birthday Blossom - she turned 19 - Prunus Elvins has always been one of my favourites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lovely Tulips - fleeting, but worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enjoying the sun while it lasts, and some inside jobs if it rains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These Iceland Poppies were the for-runner for the blooms that were to come</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. . . and they just keep coming</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So elegant and simple</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a BIG RED Salvia that is beside my hot house, and is going to look magnificent when all these large red spikes open out. It is covered with buds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Had lots of early jonquils and now the daffs are starting to open up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's such an exciting time in my garden that has been mainly sleeping for the winter months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got a lovely surprise after work last night, when I spied my magnolia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is such a delicate one and I have had a lot of trouble growing them in the past, so I am very pleased that this one seems happy at my back door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been on an adventure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I thought I'd head over to see the Queen for her 90th Birthday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was my first trip to England, and I loved it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">I loved all the flags and all the excitement and ceremony around the Palace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a bit of a shame that the rain decided to fall, but people say that is London. I took delight in all the different umbrellas that shot up and down periodically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From their Summer, I flew through the night to our Winter where it has been snowing more than once this year. It's cold and wet and slushy underfoot, but I have wonderful memories of a great trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The problem with not writing a post for awhile, is that I no longer know where to start. So much has been happening in my world. Sometimes I feel like I have had a soft landing after such a tumultuous run of events, and then other times I fall with a thud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Being a school teacher certainly helps me keep it all real and in perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. . . and then I go out into my garden and the world seems to slow down. It's certainly my place of serenity - where I find peace and calm and all things beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My Canaries had another good season, and at my last count there are about 26 birds. They take some keeping up with the bath water and go through a power of seed. They do have such lovely sweet faces though, and I just love them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The begonia's have been beautiful, especially in my hot house and the flowers just keep on giving. Such vibrant colours . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. . . and this large pink 'Plectranthas' has been like a little bit of Autumn Magic near my back door this Autumn. When it finishes flowering, I'm going to cut it back hard and see if I can make some more plants. It's a beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spent some time dressing up at Sovereign Hill and going back to the 1800's. The children loved spinning in their dresses. That's what this term's been like - a real S P I N .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">White Nerine's have been beautiful - popping up in all sorts of places in the garden and giving me lovely surprises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some last roses before Winter - this one is called Ashram. Given to me by a college when my father died a few years ago, and it is a beautiful one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although I've been quiet here on the blog, It's been full on action in my little world. Loving life and living it to the full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. . . and loving it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was my Tiger Lilly Stalks - only lasted a couple of days like this but was stunning in the garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to all the people who commented on my last post. It was heart warming to read the messages of people who felt the same way about special pets. I still miss her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beautiful Cyclamens in my hot house and in all the nurseries around town. I just love them. I knew I was getting old when I just adored them. My mum always had them and raved about them when I was young, and I just didn't "get it" - she had them at the back door and they multiplied and she oooh'ed and ahhh'ed about them. I really didn't like them then. Now I LOVE them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">White Nerines popping up everywhere . . . so many delights of Autumn.</span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-7044723067733236272016-04-03T21:16:00.000+10:002016-04-03T21:19:12.553+10:00My Beautiful Girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nellie has been my loving companion for the last 8 years. She's the one who slept snuggled up to me at night, and greeted me when I got home from work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She kept me company in the sewing room always, and LOVED all of my quilts and projects. She was always the first to sit on anything new and give it her stamp of approval.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I first met her (I like to say at the RACV) at the RSPCA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">On her card it said she was in the TV Show The Saddle Club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">She instantly purred when I met her and wanted to snuggle into my arms. I knew she was the one we would take home. She was 2 years old at the time and had already had a litter of kittens. Most people were after a kitten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She had a kind face and a loving nature. She was my girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few weeks ago she became very ill. We had a couple of trips to the vet, and despite everything, she didn't improve. She stopped eating and hardly moved, except to go out into the garden where she could watch me work and feel close at all times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The time came where I had to make a heat breaking decision to let my friend sleep forever in my garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It has been a difficult week for me, saying goodbye to such a loving friend who has been through so much with me through some troubled times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She so loved my new Glass House and often used to curl up on my chair out there while I was at work during the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Begonia's are blooming in my hot house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a lovely native hibiscus that is thriving in my potato box out the back. The only downfall of this plant is that the flowers only last a couple of days, so I have to check each day so as not to miss them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the Make A Wish Salvia, and has been flowing like this ALL summer and now into Autumn. Great value in the garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hannah Gordon Rose - a lot like Double Delight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Japanese Windflowers . . . and this lovely Clematis</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. . . and finishing off with this spectacular Begonia at my back door. That was a walk around the garden with me today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think it was last year some time when the <a href="http://bloomandblossom.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">lovely Ros from Bloom</a> sent me an exciting parcel in the mail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It contained some very special bulbs, and this is one of the results. I'd forgotten what it was, and the tag has long since gone west, so I set about investigating my mother's gardening books the other night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was the result: Xephyranthes. commonly known as Rain Lilly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is so beautiful and just a single flower so far. </span></div>
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-<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you Bloom-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">for sharing some of your garden with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Autumn has come and it's a wonderful time in the garden. Lots of pinks at the moment and . . . loving it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you all for your responses to my last post. I forgot to mention how important my blogging and the blogging community were in those difficult years. It was so helpful to be able to loose myself in a creative, supportive community and share passions and ideas, and also receive such wonderful feedback constantly from all over the world. Thank you all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm feeling much better heading into the next week, and I wanted to mention how wonderful it was to see this well worn quilt hanging on the line in my sister's garden on my last visit Up North. I make my quilts with love and to see them loved is my reward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zinnia's would have to be one of my favourite Summer flowers. They are so bright and cheery, and last for such a long time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a soft spot for hydrangea's too. I set up a watering system this Summer so they haven't suffered at all. Soon it will be time to prune them all back. I think I will take lots of cuttings this year. There are always more places to plant them . . . don't you think?</span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05962677559692141098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472899137301463197.post-9833159908720516482016-02-24T20:37:00.000+11:002016-02-24T20:37:15.786+11:00Half Way<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year I turned 50. I always thought that used to be half way. But really and truly, people don't generally live to be 100 as a rule.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reaching this significant marker in my life, it got me thinking fairly seriously. I have made some big decisions in the last couple of years. Looking back now some time has passed, I can see that they needed to be made, but the timing had to be right. I'd been trapped in my own lunch box - hiding from the reality of desperate situations and finding it hard to breathe. In order to keep the momentum of life going, I often behaved in a manic way, and sewed continuously, in my room, blocking the light of the world . . . of my world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made beautiful quilts, a beautiful garden, and lived for the beauty of new wonders each day in the garden. It is a sanctuary for me out there - just wandering and wondering, and sometimes not even thinking at all but just keeping so busy that I didn't have to face the harshness of my reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almost 2 years ago, I separated and divorced my husband of 21 years. Someone once said to me: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"what you want at 26 is not necessarily what you want at 46"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have broken the family that I helped create and in so doing have broken my children's hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a very hard decision to make - but I believe it was the right one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I felt my life was over - I was going through the motions - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Figuring that I am actually past half way, I decided that I needed to be happy. I decided I deserved love in my life. I decided that I could use a break from living constantly on the edge, watching my words and following rules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I made a choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I still love my children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am still their mum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will always be their mum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am a stronger person now, but every now and then I feel helpless and have some bad days. This week those days have found me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I've spent most of the day . . . in my garden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday I went for a lovely walk in the local Botanical Gardens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am always delighted at just how beautiful they are. A lot of work goes into maintaining them, and I really should walk through there more often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My main motive was to look inside their glass house, and see what they had growing in there. I thought it would give me some ideas for mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a magnificent structure in the gardens and it was just lovely inside. I sat on the comfy chairs for awhile just 'drinking' it all in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have water Lillie plants in my garden fish pond, but I have never been lucky enough to get a flower. These were just beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sun was shining, and the band was playing music in the park across the road. It made for a very pleasant afternoon in the gardens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I'll go back again another day.</span></div>
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