Its been raining for days and everything is so damp. Its weird after such a long drought to have such a lot of water around but typical of Australia, droughts and flooding rain. Its kind of strange for the kids as they havent seen this much rain since they were little. We have had exciting times on our corner. One time a big gum tree (about 30ft) got undermined by flood water and had to be cut down. The family in the units underneath it had to shelter in our place. There is a death every couple of years of someone camping under a gum tree, they blow down in storms, especially after a long drought. Gumtrees deal with droughts by killing off limbs and the limbs fall in storms. Another storm brought heaps of coalwash from the mine down and thru some peoples houses, there were lots of streets unpassable the next day. If you go and look at the council maps you can see where the water courses were and the water goes back to them. In that storm the retirement village got flooded and one of the residents who had lost his legs was floating around in the water before they remembered to rescue him. He was quite funny about it I suppose when you've been thru what he had a bit of a flood doesn't bother you.
They thought we'd have big fires this year coz of the bush being so dry not a worry now I guess. Been just on the computer watching the stock market not too nice but interesting times.
Gardening quite a lot a lot of trimming and weeding finally the nice bit planting: ferns, a sesanqua camilla, some lettuce, prob all drowned!. I am trying to be kind of japanese in that i am trying to trim things and give each plant its room, which is hard coz things are packed in. Garden design really interests me but then I get carried away with the plants that are in flower and want them instead of thinking of an overall plan. My first mistake was reading too many english garden books and wanting a garden like theirs. Cant tell you how many silver birches I killed off well me and the climate. I have one left multiple trunks and a cold spot in a corner. I was looking at a blog Laura's garden full of pictures of plants I mostly lost. Then I had my native phase but that got destroyed by the roses which I like esp David Austens.
We have been exercising a lot in the pool but the motor is broken so have to get a new one and the pool is green from all the rain its a hard life not.