Yesterday as usual we went off to the train station to send the wife off to work. Sitting around doing nothing unusual, discussing the news and stuff, the time passed and eventually the train pulled into the station and she got out of the car. As she did she jumped backwards and shouted what the … More Giant Moths

These two pictures are of the garden orb spider that has taken up residence outside the front door and nicknamed by us ‘The Fat Lady’ because of her bulk. As always, photos really don’t do her justice… even so I think they give some idea why we found her impressive. By the way, she’s making … More More on the 'fat lady'.

I made a few posts last week about the wildlife in the garden. The amphibians were just one of the species I neglected to mention. They forcefully reminded me they were there when I was outside this morning! I heard quiet splashing splashing and found a frog in the dogs bowl! No doubt it had … More Frog in a manger!

Yet again it’s raining over Sydney… and on top of it… and around it. In fact it seems the entire area has become waterlogged by the continuous downpours of recent weeks. As said before this isn’t really a complaint as such. We still desperately need the rain up on the catchment area to fill the … More Rain over Sydney

A couple of posts ago I was talking about the size of the webs we’ve been getting in the garden. The wife suggested I wet the webs to make them stand out more… so I tried it. It wasn’t a raging success because the others were either invisible against their backgrounds or were so indistinct … More The fat lady sings… almost.

Off at sparrows to get the wife to the train because of the bad weather. We took the main road to avoid the causeway which would probably have been flooded and arrived at the station in plenty of time with no problems… except that the trains had been cancelled! A Railcorp person came out from … More Weather around Blacktown.

Woohoo it’s raining again! Well ok this isn’t news. It’s been raining on and off for the past two months… tho it seems more ‘on’ than ‘off’. Can’t complain too much yet. If the dam storage levels were back up at 99% then we might have reason to moan but as it’s still only around … More Sydney rains.

Outdoor wildlife is a little more diverse than indoor… thankfully. We still get the usual cockroaches, large and small hiding in the leaf litter but as they don’t do anything except annoy (and occasionally try to come indoors) I tend to leave them be. Likewise the flies are pretty much left to their own devices … More Australian Outdoor Wildlife

In some ways we consider our little patch of heaven to be virtually a wildlife preserve. Everyone else I know sprays chemical around their property with wild abandon. The rule seems to be if it moves… kill it. Ok maybe that is a little extreme but it sort of sums up the general attitude, even … More Australian Indoor Wildlife