Down-under in Adelaide, many of us still have ‘backyards’ – places down behind the house where we hang out on weekends enjoying the long sunny days in this very Mediterranean climate, with BBQs for outdoor cooking, lawns, woodheaps, compost heaps, flowers and shrubs and assorted trees, chook sheds, tool sheds, the bloke’s shed, verandahs to stand under in case of rain or too much sun, fruit trees and vegetables and clothes lines for drying our washing in the open air.
Some of us move to bigger houses, some to smaller ones. When that happens, you
call on your mates and they come around and ‘give you a hand to sort the joint out’. This means a bit of social weeding and chatting, swapping tips on pruning and mulling over whether or not a plant is a weed or a forgotten seed that’s turned into a useful food plant.
So here we are (top), being supervised by young Peter but avoiding the camera to protect the innocent!
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3 comments:
Thank you so much for sorting my joint out. It may only have been a couple of hours to you but when you add in juggling of children, pets, washing and cooking there's only a very small window left for me to garden each week. You actually got several weeks worth of work done for me! WOW!!
It was fun Chook, we will be back soon!
Don't forget to let me know when the next round of tidy up is on!
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