Sunshiney day

Its been a scorcher today and far to hot to work inside, so today I built a water feature for the nursery.

Hopefully the water will settle overnight and should be less beige tomorrow morning.

Its not a bad life, I got to womble about the nursery gathering materials (nothing bought in) and build something beautiful out of odd and ends.

Simple Delights

One of the things that I love the most about our new life here in Canada, is that our home never stops surprising me with new and beautiful things.

I have a beautiful drive to work, the sides of the roads are littered with lupins and fresh greenery (very green now that we've had a lot of rain of late).

I've been watching this Iris grow for weeks and then, today, when I got home from work, it had flowered in all its luscious glory.

The best thing about this beautiful flower is that there are new unopened buds further down the stem, so we should get a lovely display for a while.

Podcast 62

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Truck is dead

AJ’s infected bite

Job going well

Bought a cultivator

Grass growing quickly

Almost a year on

- Achieved a lot
- Not always as expected
- starting to run out of things to say weekly
- getting quite busy doing things
- weekly is too much pressure
- we will still update the website
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Bad Things
AJ – infected bite
Matt – dead truck

Good things
Matt – work colleagues we live in a beautiful place
AJ – happier, more content with less stress

Busy weekend

Yesterday was my last day at the supermarket. I was tricked into going into the meeting room to "help move a box" but secretly a load of the staff had sneaked in and shouted "surprise". They had a cake with "Good Luck Matthew" written on it and a card signed by lots of the staff. I was really touched as I really wasn't expecting anything.

Tomorrow I start at the University.

We have had a very busy and productive weekend in the garden with our new tiller which AJ bought yesterday.

We have not had time to podcast I am afraid this weekend - but hope to catch up soon.