Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

No, I know almost nothing about bee hives but someone near where my brother lives has a flow hive and they love it.

Ah, ok. I might still get you to pick their brains...

 

[PouleChick]

Loving this thread! Can't wait to see it finished and the lotus is amazing!

Oh yes indeed

I hope they were TimTams? As an Aussie exile in France it is very upsetting having to live without TimTams although the tarts (lemon and strawberry in season) and eclairs do help a little

On the breeds, if you have the space I'd say go for an araucana - I love the blue eggs and they dont' eat much!

 

[Ribh]

Loving this thread! Can't wait to see it finished and the lotus is amazing!

I hope they were TimTams? As an Aussie exile in France it is very upsetting having to live without TimTams although the tarts (lemon and strawberry in season) and eclairs do help a little

On the breeds, if you have the space I'd say go for an araucana - I love the blue eggs and they dont' eat much!

The daughter who lives in Chile takes a bag full of Tim Tams back with her each time.

Oh goody! The Araucana is on my short list ~ for the blue eggs, TY I miss French Patisseries. Seriously to die for.

 

[PouleChick]

The daughter who lives in Chile takes a bag full of Tim Tams back with her each time.

When mum came over last year she brought 4 of the huge 1.5kg tubs of Milo plus TimTams and a pair of Bludstone boots for the hubby (I'd got some my last trip back!) and some little ones for my youngest. She stuffed up on the Vegimite though and only a couple of small tubes which were gone before she even left again! Luckily China Eastern lets you fly with 2 x 23kg baggage

 

[PouleChick]

My friend randomly spotted some Tim Tams in Monopirx (a supermarket) and told me but they didn't have them when I went back to get some

 

[Ribh]

When mum came over last year she brought 4 of the huge 1.5kg tubs of Milo plus TimTams and a pair of Bludstone boots for the hubby (I'd got some my last trip back!) and some little ones for my youngest. She stuffed up on the Vegimite though and only a couple of small tubes which were gone before she even left again! Luckily China Eastern lets you fly with 2 x 23kg baggage

Vegemite. I'm not a big fan but most Aussies end up craving it & a jar of it goes to my daughter each time her church sends a food parcel over. I don't send parcels. The postage is exorbitant & Chilean mail notoriously unreliable. A big expensive study bible the girl begged me to send went missing on the Chilean side. So odd as they speak a Spanish dialect & I can't think it would have been of any use to anyone. I put money in her account for incidentals.

Last year she wanted to put on an Aussie meal for her team~mates for Christmas so asked for my trifle recipe ~ & then found most of the ingredients were unobtainable. And bread! Most Chilean bread uses sugar instead of salt ~ which does NOT go well with vegemite! She finally found someone who does a savoury bread for all that vegemite!

 

[Ribh]

Another morning on the mainland & after all that rain so terribly hot & muggy. Anything we can lug ourselves without paying cartage we do but I'm seriously reconsidering the peat moss. Man! Does that stuff weigh a ton!

Seeing we were there I put in for a stop @ our local produce store ~farm supply people~ for the Aussie equivalent of nutridrench & a wormer. The girls are due to be wormed but one of my BAs is molting & a bit under the weather so I want her to have a bit of a pickeme up.

 

[Ribh]

This afternoon's job was to carry the struts lying on top of this garden bed to where they will be needed [15 to the chook pen, 10 to the bush house] then I dug in the peat moss & dynamic lifter & planted out all the things we've been hoarding for this particular bed: crows nests, bromeliads, ferns, fresia bulbs for a spring flowering, talendsia cyanea, minature clumping palms, elkhorns [compacta, which we're told will grow in the ground so I guess we'll find out] ~ & yes we have rain forecast!

 

[MaryJanet]

I love freesias. So fragrant!

 

[Ribh]

I love freesias. So fragrant!

Me too. We got original bulbs which have the best scent.