Yobs

After a hearty Breakfast Cockie and Partner, feeling replete and well, were clearly getting a little bored. So they decided to spend the day on our deck and many a happy hour pushing the clips of the tablecloth off the table. As if that wasn't enough one of them then walked on the table and with its beak lifted the entire tablecloth and pushed it to the side on a chair.  I kept reminding them that perhaps this was yobbish behaviour to their breakfast provider but they indicated how much they thought of my lecture by leaving round little presents underneath the chairs they were perched on.

After an exhausting morning I do declare I caught Cockie having a nap. Well you would too wouldn't you?

Autumnal blessings in blossoms

Autumn has finally arrived. The hot and humid weather has given way to a crisper clime and we are loving it. But autumn is not a time for blossoms or flowers. Do our bees have enough nectar and pollen? I need not worry. We have two enormous lilly pilly trees by the house. Their time to blossom is now in thousands of snowflakes which look beautiful, cover the deck in a film of white and are clearly a favourite with the bees. 

With windows and doors always open I began to smell the intoxicating aroma of our hedge murraya paniculata aka Hawaiian mock orange, or jasmine orange. 

Hedges all around the neighbourhood have burst into flower, after the rain, and walking past them is heavenly. This lovely plant however is not local which means Australians are quick to classify it as a weed. I looked to capture a photo which was not just of the weed of course but something more - and here it is a wild miniature orchid growing up and in amongst the hedge of jasmine orange just up the road.