The Colliwat Collation

It took 18 long months for our bananas to arrive.  They are certified disease free from a specialist banana nursery up in Tully that tiss...

We've had a scorching heat wave over the last week or so which shows no sign of relenting.  Nearly 40 degrees in October is just ridicu...

Spring has been gaining momentum over the last few weeks.  The vegies are all producing nicely and flowers are coming into bloom left, righ...

We finally made it to Jerry Coleby-Williams ' Open Garden in "boring old Wynnum" last weekend.  We've been meaning to go ...

We had already had a couple of eggs from the girls this morning so I wasn't expecting anything when I went to put them to bed tonight. ...

We've been busy about the garden trying to complete and plant up the potager  beds before winter sets in.  Autumn is one of the main gr...

You'd think you'd be spared the copious amounts of packaging that simple purchases always bring when a larger purchase is involved....

The 'mother-in-law,' as she refers to herself, brought down a mirror one visit that had been salvaged from someone's renovation...

After a protracted dry spell which saw our tanks empty and our dam shrinking so low we had decided to stop watering the vegie patch for fea...

We were buying honey at our local markets quite some time ago and noticed they had blocks of beeswax too.  Putting on my best butterfly las...

Although we haven't been especially successful with growing ginger here so far due to the poor soil quality and lack of rain, there has...

We had a rather violent storm (or rather convergence of four storms) here on Monday afternoon that dumped a good amount of much needed rain...