Still Life With Cat

Okay, so a lot in life is currently awry if not completely cactus, but every time I go out into the back yard, the smell of the jasmine all ...

This is the First Freesia of 2010. Not only are freesias beautiful and strong -- they very rarely get chewed to bits by snails and bugs or...

What would Charlotte think, I wonder, if she knew people were not only still reading her masterpiece nearly 200 years after she was born, bu...

For those of you who may not remember Leonard Bast, he is the failed aspirational with whose shabby umbrella the heedless Helena Bonham Cart...

You just keep looking for your glasses until you find them. You finish the novel, and then you finish the next one. You go to the chemist an...

Last night late I went outside with the big torch to see if my frantic watering of the lemon tree (after falling into an exhausted early-eve...

What my dear and long-departed paternal grandfather used to call the Weather Baroo has been forecasting rain in these parts for several days...

Over two years ago, I went to the Royal Adelaide Show and bought, among other things, two beautiful and elaborate iris plants. At least the...