Oh boy! Time for a break from work-stuff (yes, working from home at a long distance! 
). Yesterday was my fourth Zoom meeting, and I'm getting the hang of it more, though the connection's not great. Right now I should be either overhauling a document, or writing a letter - but here I am, quickly nicking in here to update my diary.
The hoodlum galahs! I think most of that parrot family have a touch of the hoodlum about them! They are fun to watch, Petal - and yes, good-looking, LaMa - or at least pleasingly coloured. When there's grain spilt on the road they all descend in a noisy flock, and then shuffle along silently pecking it up, bent over like a line-up of pink-and-grey grandmas examining someone else's knitting for a dropped stitch. Cockies - well, they're a by-word for destruction, I think, Cate! But so intelligent and characterful that they get away with it.
Tinned veg will be to the fore today - last night I made a chilli beans, with tinned kidney beans and tinned tomato (but fresh onion, garlic, celery, broccoli stalk and carrots - the chilli and the mixed herbs were dried). It's simmering now, and will turn up for lunch soonish.
I'm not too sure about fermented veg - sauerkraut just tastes sour to me, and kim chi is so strong a taste (though everybody's kim chi is different, of course). Not sure that I've had much else that's fermented - Japanese beans, I guess.
Transplant shock? But it's raining today, and I've put it where it can catch the rain, so I'm hoping that'll do it good.
Oh, and in the loveliness or interesting things seen walking category: last night we walked out along the road to get to a dark place, in the hopes of seeing some of the Lyrid meteor shower. Which we didn't, but we did see the glorious stars of the Milky Way, and the Southern Cross and the Pointers, very high at this time of year. And a light where we didn't expect to see one, too, which might mean that someone has set up camp there (no reason why they shouldn't!), so that's mildly interesting - is this a new resident in the locality?
). Yesterday was my fourth Zoom meeting, and I'm getting the hang of it more, though the connection's not great. Right now I should be either overhauling a document, or writing a letter - but here I am, quickly nicking in here to update my diary.The hoodlum galahs!
I think most of that parrot family have a touch of the hoodlum about them! They are fun to watch, Petal - and yes, good-looking, LaMa - or at least pleasingly coloured. When there's grain spilt on the road they all descend in a noisy flock, and then shuffle along silently pecking it up, bent over like a line-up of pink-and-grey grandmas examining someone else's knitting for a dropped stitch. Cockies - well, they're a by-word for destruction, I think, Cate! But so intelligent and characterful that they get away with it. Tinned veg will be to the fore today - last night I made a chilli beans, with tinned kidney beans and tinned tomato (but fresh onion, garlic, celery, broccoli stalk and carrots - the chilli and the mixed herbs were dried). It's simmering now, and will turn up for lunch soonish.
I'm not too sure about fermented veg - sauerkraut just tastes sour to me, and kim chi is so strong a taste (though everybody's kim chi is different, of course). Not sure that I've had much else that's fermented - Japanese beans, I guess.
Thanks! and to @Cate and @Emilyrose for good mint-wishes. I won't be plundering its leave for salad or tea any time soon - it wasn't looking good at all this morning.
Transplant shock? But it's raining today, and I've put it where it can catch the rain, so I'm hoping that'll do it good.Oh, and in the loveliness or interesting things seen walking category: last night we walked out along the road to get to a dark place, in the hopes of seeing some of the Lyrid meteor shower. Which we didn't, but we did see the glorious stars of the Milky Way, and the Southern Cross and the Pointers, very high at this time of year. And a light where we didn't expect to see one, too, which might mean that someone has set up camp there (no reason why they shouldn't!), so that's mildly interesting - is this a new resident in the locality?
Funfunfun! (apart from the letter, still unfinished, must do it this morning). 
