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Green Pepper [Capiscum] Detail

The awesomeness of the Capsicum!

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25 Nov 2012

I was making lunch today, which involved roasting, chicken, butter and cheese. It ended up looking nothing like the pictures in the recipe book I was following. Given the nature of the ingredients involved, I think the photos may have had a little artistic licence. For example, how does a mixture of cheese, butter and tomato purée retain it's solid state at 200 degrees centigrade to then to reveal a nice layer between the breast of the chicken and the skin as it is carved? But we are all wiser after the event :)

At last, the wall is complete and an era has ended

Outside the wall....

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14 Nov 2012

The end of an era!   After 3 1/2 years, the garden terracing project is complete!   The last challenge was to lay the turf. Turf is surprisingly heavy and towards the end found that I had a strong back ache. The incorrect lifting techniques I used at the beginning certainly came back on me later! Lift with the legs! Form is all!   I had planned on a nice flat lawn and thought that by spending hours raking it and dragging a weighted wooden pallet over it, that is was I would do.

Bricks in the wall

All in all it was just a brick in the wall....

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31 May 2012

Just a few weeks before Kai was born, I was 'advised' that it would be a good time to start the conversion of the back garden from the split level affair to a nice flat area for our children to play on. For the last three years, I been digging in the garden. Not all the time, but somewhere between 200 and 300 hours. I think I have moved about 50 to 60 tonnes of soil and rock with a bucket, spade and wheelbarrow... Based on the average weight of each bucket, how many buckets to a barrow load and how many trips I made.