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[robbiegal]

well Trout
looks like your toot roll holder is pretty darn good
the dunny roll is still there, looking good as gold and not in Broome !!

[trout]

Mrs trout has been flat out cleaning all the dust up from the house.
You couldn't breath or open your eyes outside at the height of the storm.

[Triggersmob]

Some pretty harsh weather just come through here.
Flattened my outside dunny and a few branches down ill take some images when it is safe to go.outside

The Geraldton Police came to investigate, but they had nothing to go on.

[trout]

Some pretty harsh weather just come through here.
Flattened my outside dunny and a few branches down ill take some images when it is safe to go.outside

The Geraldton Police came to investigate, but they had nothing to go on.

:laugh2::laugh2::laugh2:

[Goldseeker]

Love the foursome.   Great picture.

[Unicorn]

Thanks Goldie ..... if you look below the one on the left and you'll see another set of tail feathers but he's in hiding.

There was seven all up just before I took the photo and they were having a great laugh at me pegging out clothes. (I know why now as it started raining later).

Needless to say the clothes are STILL all hanging there, wet.

[Pedro]

And there's where the kookas implement Plan B ... (and that's why they are still laughing) :grin:

Pedro

[Triggersmob]

Reminds me of that song..."Kookaburra sits on the electric wire, jumping up and down with his pants on fire"....

[Nevol]

Twice this week we've had a family of 5 Kookas hanging around, but not all settled in one place. We get alerted to them by the incessant screeching of the Noisy Miner birds.  Boy, do they hate Kookas.

[robbiegal]

hey Trout
are you submitting a home and contents claim for a replacement outdoor loo?
i'd reckon that the insurance guys would think it was hilarious

[Coiny Chris]

Hello,

I had a Camping Toilet attacked by a Wombat. The damage was not covered by the warranty. Made for Australian conditions ? I think not. Maybe you need a Brick outhouse. This may be the reason the term came about ?

[robbiegal]

a forum member did ask me about winter gardening & i'd said that I had given up with the frosts here
well this year I have made netting hooped covers and have had some success, looks weird but it works

having regular -4 frosty mornings but have managed to grow cabbages - the bugs like them too but 'the girls' (i.e. my chooks) have helped to keep a fair amount of the bug population down

got plenty of cabbages growing (sugarloaf and some sort of purple ones), one brussel sprouts plant, kale - 2 types, the broccoli 'çalabrese' is still growing and has been since November or earlier - those plants are almost shoulder height and I get a small container of broccolini every couple of days, the celery survived the big frost of -6, of course the rocket still grows & shallots & garlic are OK with the baby carrots are struggling along , beetroot - hanging in there, onions hummm might be crop failure, the silverbeet would be good but the jolly chooks keep raiding the plants! parsley going ok and the chives are starting to feel winter (I have regular and garlic chives as always). the lettuce is growing in a little plastic hot house ($65 at the hardware store)  - slow but have picked quite a few salad's worth
so all in all - I am a happy camper with the winter veggies patch  
here is a pic of my first sugarloaf that we had for dinner the other night & the actual cabbage was fine - no bugs to my surprise
only got 3 pumpkins but nice ones at that

[Australian coin]

hehe love the veggie stuff

[robbiegal]

xx
gave it a go this year AC and have been pretty pleased with the produce coming out of the (dreadful looking) back yard!! ha ha
& the black hen has finally got over being clucky and starting laying again to day - so 2 eggs collected today - business as usual in the egg factory
frosts killed the pumpkin vine in 2 nights

[ausjack]

Thanks again for these RG, and they're a bit bigger now as it's been a couple of weeks from when I took these pic's :friends: can't believe the bloody things have the hide to flower and still getting marties from a big plant I was going to pull out, ginger is very slow but the garlic is powering. I'll get some pic's soon of the handrail out the back as nearly got the 1/4 inch of paint sanded back to bare metal but do my usual trick and do a bit too much then laid up for a few days but getting there
Other uses for old wheelie bins

they're half way up the wire now


and they get put into a little tent to keep the frost off :winkextra: