The Garden (again) ...

A bank holiday weekend and the first 2 days have been sunny! We've been working in the garden and it looks OK at the moment, so (for those of you who are interested) here's a few pics ..

This is loking from the house -- the bamboo and laburnum are about ½ way down the garden.

This is the path!

Looking back towards the house from the far end of the garden (you can see the top of the roof).

This is the view to the south - so even though we live in a big city, the country isn't far away.






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Green & Gold

Late Spring can be a beautiful time in the garden. Here's a photo of a laburnum tree in bloom (it looks good for about 10 days a year!).

Shona's Wedding

Our friends Shona and Roly got married at the weekend. In many ways, this was a surprise as we didn't think that marriage was part of their plans.

So, a trip to Yorkshire and a fun evening at the party (in the same pub as the wedding).

PANDEMIC v EPIDEMIC

Because people keep asking me ...

An epidemic is an outbreak of a disease in a population which does not usually suffer from it: different health organisations/ministeries/departments have specific definitions about the percentage of people that need to be affected for it to be an epidemic. (So this is about the number of people affected)

Pandemic is used to describe the outbreak of the same disease in more than one country (again there are various definitions but WHO's is good). (So this is about the number of countries affected.)

Neither of these terms evaluates the severity of the disease.

[N.B. These are simplified explanations!]

Gardening!

I've just spent 2 days making the lawn bigger. We've been trying to reduce the work needed to maintain the garden for a while now (no vegetable garden this year, for example) and this is part of the process. There's one particular area where I felled a eucalyptus tree about 5 years ago (I LIKE trees, but this was about 90' high and only 50' from the house). For whatever reason, nothing much (except weeds) has grown in the area and expensive planting schemes have come to nought.
Anyway, I (eventually) managed to dig the tree root out and over the next 2 days we've cleared and cultivated an area that's about 15m X 2m - just need to get it flat now and then we can sow grass seed!

Oh, and it's Shona & Roly's wedding next Saturday!