8th March
I didn’t get away this weekend, spent Saturday morning at Heritage Hotel measuring the areas for planting, over 500 metres of paths to be edge and bulk planted. There’s no way we’ll have enough plants ready for June, if we’d had some warning, we could have been bulking up stock a year ago, but to propagate, transplant, sufficient stock in 3 months?
Add in the mature palms and trees they want for bits and pieces around the pool area, it’s going to be expensive if we have to get them from the bush farms.
We’ve got Adrian back with us. His wife works for RAMSI, he’s Australian. He’s a freebie volunteer, we got him because his wife is a friend of Keithies, and they thought he’d be useful at the Gardens. I’ve got him involved looking after the Rove Prison Training. A good few months there will be good for him, and us
It’s been one of those weekends when nothing seems to get done. Lost electricity yesterday afternoon till nearly 8pm, then had the usual water problem, and again today for most of the day.
The people up the top of me, seem to be woodcarvers. They started hammering away Friday afternoon, inside the house, so it echoes around the neighbourhood, till midnight Friday, then started again 9am Saturday morning, till 11pm, I finally went up there at 11pm, and asked them if they could possibly leave it till daytime. Lot’s of embarrassed grins and “Sori, sori, sori” Nice people, but just getting carried away with the creative spirit
I’ve decided that buying fish is a real haphazard process here, other than going to the shops in Honiara that charge considerably more for the privilege. It’s close to 30C all the time, today feels like 90% humidity, clothes just go limp in minutes, and the fish at Kukum Market are out on tables with a basic shade screen, and people waving sticks with rags keeping the flies moving. I really felt like a good feed of fish, but changed my mind. It’s a pity, some of the tuna and kingfish are a really good size, and probably looked really good several hours ago, before they sat in the sun all day.
None of the fish are cleaned, gilled or gutted, so you buy the whole fish, then have to clean it. It would be ok, if they’d been kept cold on ice, but in the bottom of a canoe, then on a table in the sun?
I’ve got lesson plans to write up for this week, and I’ll try to have at least 2 assessments ready for them by Friday.
I didn’t get away this weekend, spent Saturday morning at Heritage Hotel measuring the areas for planting, over 500 metres of paths to be edge and bulk planted. There’s no way we’ll have enough plants ready for June, if we’d had some warning, we could have been bulking up stock a year ago, but to propagate, transplant, sufficient stock in 3 months?
Add in the mature palms and trees they want for bits and pieces around the pool area, it’s going to be expensive if we have to get them from the bush farms.
We’ve got Adrian back with us. His wife works for RAMSI, he’s Australian. He’s a freebie volunteer, we got him because his wife is a friend of Keithies, and they thought he’d be useful at the Gardens. I’ve got him involved looking after the Rove Prison Training. A good few months there will be good for him, and us
It’s been one of those weekends when nothing seems to get done. Lost electricity yesterday afternoon till nearly 8pm, then had the usual water problem, and again today for most of the day.
The people up the top of me, seem to be woodcarvers. They started hammering away Friday afternoon, inside the house, so it echoes around the neighbourhood, till midnight Friday, then started again 9am Saturday morning, till 11pm, I finally went up there at 11pm, and asked them if they could possibly leave it till daytime. Lot’s of embarrassed grins and “Sori, sori, sori” Nice people, but just getting carried away with the creative spirit
I’ve decided that buying fish is a real haphazard process here, other than going to the shops in Honiara that charge considerably more for the privilege. It’s close to 30C all the time, today feels like 90% humidity, clothes just go limp in minutes, and the fish at Kukum Market are out on tables with a basic shade screen, and people waving sticks with rags keeping the flies moving. I really felt like a good feed of fish, but changed my mind. It’s a pity, some of the tuna and kingfish are a really good size, and probably looked really good several hours ago, before they sat in the sun all day.
None of the fish are cleaned, gilled or gutted, so you buy the whole fish, then have to clean it. It would be ok, if they’d been kept cold on ice, but in the bottom of a canoe, then on a table in the sun?
I’ve got lesson plans to write up for this week, and I’ll try to have at least 2 assessments ready for them by Friday.
Pic is of the Museum Grounds and the Kastom Houses
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