The gardens were crowded today. We had Woodford International School Cross Country, The Holy Cross Ladies with their Flower arranging class, then Honiara College arrived to practise their school play and theatrics. At a rough count I’d say close to 250 teenagers parents and teachers, really good day. No accidents with the cross country, other than a few going for an unexpected swim slipping over crossing the river.
We found the little python, tucked up into a tree trunk, hiding in the bark. It’s looking well fed, it must be catching either the tree lizards and geckos, or the hundreds of small frogs in the lawn. I’m hoping no one kills it, it’s relatively harmless, it could give a nasty bite probably, but it’s only 15 inches or so long.
The dry weather is playing havoc with the power supply this week, it must be all the airconditioners in the offices and hotels all going at once. The power is now going off at 10am, till 12, then from 1.30pm till 3.30pm or a bit later. It’s very frustrating to put it mildly. And knowing I’ll come home to a defrosted fridge again really makes my day. Although there isn’t much in the fridge now, I’m learning not to stock too much to lose in it.
We are putting bamboo stakes into the bougainvillea in the tubs down the street tomorrow, then let the bougainvillea grow taller and tie the stems to the stakes, provided the stakes aren’t just stolen each night. I’m trying to get tall spires of flowers in the tubs, rather than the short hard trimmed bushes, we’ll be taking out the crotons, and duranta as well, as we get more bougainvillea ready in the nursery. And the variegated pineapple as well, too many spikes and sharp bits on them.
Flogging Molly on the playlist tonight, Rebels of the Sacred Heart, Drunken lullabies etc. Thanks to Sandy in St Louis for putting me onto them a couple of years ago. And Al for the Screaming Orphans, and the Young Dubliners. And Mary for the Bothy Band. Fairly wide mix of styles in there, plus my usual Gary Moore, Jonny Lang, Paul Butterfield, trance, techno, Bob Dylan etc, and Mary Coughlan
It’s 4.30am Friday, we had another mild rock and roll event, for about 5 minutes, several little house shaking episodes, then it’s been peaceful since. So I may as well stay up and have breakfast, get ready for work and hope there isn’t another shake.
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