Wednesday 25th November.

It’s been a busy week, I’ve got the drawings done for Commonwealth Ave, Tiffany and I have a meeting with MID tomorrow to go over the concept plan, and hopefully get an idea of how much they are going to put towards the budget, we’ll probably have to canvass the businesses along Commonwealth Ave, I can’t see the Chinese owned ones paying anything though.




It’s finally raining. Steady rain that should last the night out by the looks of the clouds.



We had the bush pigs visit town last night, 14 Alexandra Palms along Ranandi Highway near work were chopped down, all 7 year old palms, just starting to get good solid trunks and that grey colour to them. I wrote a short piece and sent photos to the Solomon Star again. I wanted Tiffany to write it, but she said I use stronger words than she would, so it would be better if I did it. It's in todays Solomon Star in the Letters section. www.solomonstarnews.com

I’ve got 350 seeds from one of the Alexandra Palms in town to start, by the ANZ. I was in there with Tiffany and we saw the crew outside so I sent Jack up the trees to shake the seeds off the bunch. Spent last night washing the pulp off and then nicking the seeds so they start faster without having to wait for the shell to split. Huge amount of non fertile seeds from them, only half the seeds were fertile, I floated all of them in the sink, then doubting what was happening I split some of the floaters open. All hollow, so I didn’t bother checking any others, just kept the ones that sank.

We’ve got a lot of stuff done this week, it’s one of the things that happens. I’ve got pricing to do for Commonwealth Ave, the Post Office is costed and agreed, we start there soon. I’m trying to get more compost made before then, the girls have run out again for the Nursery, plus we have orders for about 3 truckloads to go to private gardens. It is turning into a good earner provided we can keep the supply up. Moving out of the Botanic Gardens has mucked the process up a bit, and I’m reluctant to start large scale processing until we have the lease and agreement signed on the area at Hasting Deering.

The drawings and costing have to be into the Japanese Consul on Friday, I still haven’t heard back from NZ Aid about the scholarships for Andrew and Emory, another thing to chase up tomorrow, I only have till Monday to have them registered in Dunedin Polytech so I can see it is going to be a last minute rush. Like everything here turns into.