20/20 Hindsight

A bit of a catch-up I'm afraid. Apologies for all of this in one hit. These were the fish at the restaurant the other night. I'm not sure how well you can tell but some of the fish in there are HUGE.



Sunday night we went down to the beach after dinner - probably should have been all responsible and headed straight home but... it was so NICE there!



Aaaaand this is Amy and Barnaby's veggie patch. It's coming along quite well I think :D

Out for two meals today - with Mum and Dad and with the Grant family. I am spoilt :)

I managed to do some geocaching too, which was very nice. I had a great walk around the Prospect area and treated myself to a coffee and a macaron in a very nice cafe.

Mum's cacti have the most amazing flowers at the moment. These are ENORMOUS. At least hand sized, if not more (depends a bit on the hands in question I suppose)

After one housemate had mowed the lawns the 240L green wheelie bin was pretty close to full - prior to mowing it had been empty. I swear it hadn't been that long since the last mowing! The weather's been very good for the lawn though. I guess it got enthusiastic.

Here, have a mutant flower!

Monday and Tuesday, I'm into this week at last...



Monday was a stunning day - warm but not hot, and glorious sunshine. I headed down to visit Mum and Dad and to do my washing. While I was there I spent quite a lot of time in the garden - I think I appreciate it all the more now that I'm not there every day. I got some lovely photos, but this is my favourite. I spotted a dead flower wedged in between two branches. When I pulled it out this little guy. As far as I can tell he's a leafhopper in the family/group/order/something flatidae. Whatever he is he's gorgeous. Mum helped me get a good photo - it took a few tries to get the focus just where I wanted it but it was good practice for manual focusing and using my superzoom camera (Sony DSC HX100V) for extreme closeups. One of the brightest points in a very good day.



This lamp sat around in my old room for ages - when Dad was repairing appliances sometimes things didn't get picked up. There were may reasons - didn't want to pay, forgot, moved overseas... attempts to contact the original owner of this lamp failed so I bought it from Dad - I loved the lamp but had no idea what to do with it at the time. Now it's perfect!

It's been a busy workish kind of a day and to be honest, I'm not sure that you really want to hear a blow by blow account of the cataloguing I did today. So instead, have some orchids from the garden!

I'm going to miss this garden when I've moved out. Of course, I'll come back to visit it often!

I was woken twice by thunder and once by a sudden heavy downpour last night. But the weather cleared up (though more rain is forecast).

It's still very springy, though the daffodils have finished. There are some small buds on the roses now too, I'm hoping it'll be another good year for them!

And it's clearly a good day for this really fuzzy butterfly. I hope you can see the detail as well as I can in the original file!

More spring photos! This is the Japanese Maple in the back garden just starting to get new leaves, it's a stunning tree (except after a heatwave when it's just a crispy tree) that just gets better every year.

Did I mention the Orchids are having an exceptional year? I'll miss running around taking pictures of the garden while I'm on holiday, but I'm sure more variety in the photos can only be good. Oh yeah... Singapore has orchids... and I'm not too concerned about people knowing I'm away, for the record. I don't live alone, and persons whom I live with are not coming with me.