2nd April

Urrrrgh, sinus infection, with an infected throat because I didn’t start the antibiotics when I should have on Tuesday. Lasted at work till midday, then had to come home and die noisily. I feel like dying would be a preferable choice at the moment, I’m taking Roxithromycin for the infection, a couple or so of Panadol/Brufen to keep the fever down, some Maxiclear to try and dry up my sinuses, something is bound to work.

Our meeting the other day with Forestry has had some outcome already. The Surveyor arrived with a group today, all with GPS trackers and started mapping out the Botanic Garden boundaries and pathways. Hopefully they will share the results with us and the Council. It’s a bit like the wild wild west here at the moment, the Govt is trying to function, the Council has a lot of in-fighting between depts going on, in the meantime, people are just doing what ever they want without any rules/regulations.

I was thinking about how to really straighten the Town out, well, thinking only. I’d be organising about 200 or so Auditors from New Zealand and Australia, calling them some other title like Agrarian Consultants. Put them into the big hotels here for a couple of weeks, and on a Saturday, just before midday closing, pair each one up with a couple of Police, and seize all the business computers, accounts, bookwork, and do an audit on where the money is coming and going.

None of the businesses like non-negotiable checks, always made out to cash so they don’t have to go through any accounts, add in a bit of creative accounting, and the amount siphoned off would probably balance the Govt Accounts for the past couple of years.

It’s Adrians 60th Birthday on Monday, I’m going to get the crew organised at work early in the morning, and we’ll give him a present and sing a few songs, the old perennial “Happy Birthday” and a few extra choruses along the lines of “ Why was he born so etc” Keithie is organising a bar b que at her place Monday night with Coralie, Adrians partner, and we’re trying to keep it quiet from him. With luck, he’ll think the bit of fun at work in the morning will be all, Coralie has told him they are going out for dinner Monday night.

The weather is slowly changing, I don’t notice it so much, but the wildlife appears to. We’re getting a lot of different birds and animals in the Gardens the last week, as the different trees come into flower and set fruit. There were several Solomon Island Giant frogs in the Lily pond having what appeared to be a group hug session, say no more. The owl I saw the other morning is still in the Gardens, it was on a tree branch over the Orchid house this morning, ignoring me totally. The butterflies are becoming more numerous, and I found a couple of rhinocerous beetles wandering around today as well. I didn’t realise how big they are, about 50mm long, and 25 – 30mm wide. We have several orchids now in flower in the Orchid house, and more starting to throw out spikes.
I’m finding more land crab holes around the lilypond as well, hopefully we’ll get enough to make it worthwhile catching them and having a cook up bar b que.