Rain on the strawberries

This is why we are content to celebrate a global festival of renewal and new life in the southern autumn, instead of in the spring. My heart feels buoyant. And this is why:

Fresh, lush, beautiful rain on the strawberry leaves. Fresh, lush, beautiful rain everywhere. Today, it rained. And rained, and rained, and rained. Our strawberry patch somehow survived the summer, and is springing into renewed growth with the cooler weather.

More after the cut…

Filed under: garden, photoblog

Friday garden-blogging, blogroll wrangling etc

Scabious, aka the Pincushion Flower

Quite a few of you enjoyed my post on a picture of Saturn’s rings a few days ago. Well, a new blog I’ve discovered has an excellent post on the following day’s Astronomy Picture Of the Day and the relationship between a sense of wonder, skepticism and myth.

Filed under: Science, garden, interblog, sport

Friday garden blogging

Lorikeets in the pohutakawa last week

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Blogiversary! that means food, flowers, feminism and of course, catblogging

Yes, it was a year ago today that the brave ship tigtogblog first set sail! Looking back on ye auld archives, I am struck by my neglect of food and garden stuff recently. V.slack and shame-making.

Food: Truffles (thanks to ABC radio and some chaps in Tasmania who are going to make an absolute bomb now they’re getting in a good harvest – they’ll be able to send fresh “black gold” to Europe out of season). They discussed how to use truffles in cooking, and it all sounded v. finicky – grating slivers on to this and that, and needing something creamy or oily as a base to bring out the truffle flavour and spread it around. Sounds fatmaking, thought I.

But then they mentioned truffle oil.

Filed under: Meta, food/drink, garden, pets