arrival of spring

  Springs arrived at last, the flowering cherries are abundant with pink blossum, just like they were when we first arrived here 27 years ago. We have a Christmas Cactus on the porch, in a large pot, it must be nearly 3 feet in diamator and has been in flower for nearly 2 weeks. I planted an apple tree the weekend, it has 2 variety of fruit, Granny Smith and Golden Delicious, a perfect shape to allow me to fan the branches. I planted one years ago but I'm affraid I let it go a bit, in fact I let the whole garden slip a little with work and everything, just never got the time to relax in the garden. Took some real big Lemons from the tree also,they are doing really well with the rain weve been having.

  The vegetable gardens seems to be slowly coming along, the soil is very heavy and reminds me of when we first moved out too Wymondham, after we were maried, along time ago. I enjoy telling friends here about that little 2 bedroom bungalow we had, but you never call it a bungalow here, as a bungalows a small shack in the garden, its a house here. Here they measure houses in squares, a square is 100 Sq. Ft.and our little house over at Wymondham worked out to 6 Squares. The house we live in here is by ozzy standards not a big house and it measures 16 Squares, you don't see much under 12 Squares. Then theres the other extreem here where you get double storey houses, built in the suburbs 40 Squares big and if you want to realise how big that is, calculate the floor area of your house, in feet, devide it by 100 and just compare that with 40.

 Well enough for now, chat later.

                                                     Robert, Linda and the boys