Archive for May, 2010

Garden progress

We’ve done very little to the house lately, instead just inching forward in the garden with tending our veggies, tidying up, weeding, clearing, chopping back and organising. We face a constant battle to tame our garden, over the years to come. The biggest challenge is fitting all the cleared rubbish into the garden waste bin [...]

Posted by Robin Willis on May 26th, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  2 Comments

Stuff, woodworking

There is no theme for this blog post, just stuff. The last couple of weeks at work have been really busy, in the run up to a show we’re exhibiting at, the NRA (nothing to do with rifles). We’re in a prime spot, and my projects are in prime place on our stand, so I’ve [...]

Posted by Robin Willis on May 20th, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

Hullo possums

This, I think, is a possum.

It was creeping along by the wall in our garden when we got back this evening (from a really rather good curry at one of our favourites, round the corner from our old apartment, the New Delhi Palace). I should explain that these are vermin, as common as foxes in [...]

Posted by Robin Willis on May 8th, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

Birthday and housewarming party

Moody skies on the freeway on my way back from work. The last week of April was unseasonably wet!

This amused me disproportionately – there happens to be a running Willis/Bown family joke about people who only like other PLUs, or ‘people like us’. Despite appearances, it is a bar of soap. It smelled fantastic, but [...]

Posted by Robin Willis on May 5th, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  4 Comments