Neil was a very good batsman but Alan offers depth.

It’s been a brutal cropping season. The combination of wind and rain has been unrelenting. Add that to the protracted hot dry autumn and everything is wildly out of kilter.

Looks short of an all rounder. Maybe Alan Davidson but I’m not sure who he displaces.

Time to rest.

Ok. I looked. Too many people use that meme ironically for something minor. In this case it was the correct use of the meme. Good lord indeed.

This is what my father referred to them as when I was growing up but he was on his own with that one.

In the meantime, I think I need to mend the shredder if I’m going to get into composting seriously. Woody material needs breaking down more.

Last heap is the weeds from this spring. Mostly grasses and thistles. I think this one will break down a lot faster. Covered with bedding straw from the chicken shed and suspect I’ll mix the last two heaps together in autumn and that should get the balance right.

The next heap (summer garden waste which had too much woody material in it and weedy bulbs) isn’t going well. Turned it over and covered with bedding straw from the chicken shed.

I use it to track evapotranspiration for the purpose of irrigation scheduling and that data is now difficult to find and poorly presented. The new website falls well short of what’s needed for many of us in the Ag sector.

Colleague: could you come and check a newly sown crop with me? I’m having some issues with sandblasting the newly emerging seedlings.
The crop…

It’s an introduced pest bird in Tasmania that attacks smaller birds so in my view, 7 is too high for the kookaburra

As a Tasmanian the bit I find funny about the Tasmanian Devil comparison is I’ve never seen a Devil rip off his shirt, truck a defender or yell WOOOO!!! all the time but they are renowned as very noisy eaters.

It gets wilder by the minute. Now we’ve lost power. That was to be expected.