With blue skies and sunshine, my camera in hand, and its battery fully charged, I headed out into my garden to take a few ‘happy snaps’.
So, as promised last weekend, the following is a bit of a ‘pictorial’ update on how the garden is coming along. Certainly, everything is loving the warmer weather and, following a glorious 88 mm drenching last Tuesday (3.4 inches of rain), it’s lovely to see my plants ‘singing’ so to speak.
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If you’d have asked me three years ago where I’d be today, I’m sure my answer then would have been vastly different to what I’m about to say now.
Three years ago today, August 2, 2014, was the day I became Footloose and Fancy Free. The day I became de-shackled from the daily grind and free to do as I please, and no longer under any obligation to anyone who compensates me for my time, my talents and my technical skills.
We received a safety recall notice from our vehicle manufacturer and the nearest dealer was 84 kilometres (52.1 miles) away in Moss Vale in the New South Wales Southern Highlands. Not a great distance to travel, but factor in the two mountain ranges, and four sections currently undergoing road works, the ‘trip’ took us a little over 1½ hours.
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