Goldfinch and Greenfinch / Summer 2009 / Cork

Chilli veraison, November 15th 2009

Quelle disaster! #twebt

Wren

Wren

It visits my pond only very occasionally. Just eats insects, so I can't feed it. What is it? Initials are GW.

Sydney, Australia, 2003. Me+Mrs. The dual effects of too much wine and not enough green, leafy vegetables have impacted on our youthful looks since then, regretably.

Two Aussie icons: The crocodile, and Margaret River Chardonnay - finally together in one picture.

I gave a poor review of Pecorino on my blog, and my Italian FaceBook friends waded straight in to defend it.

Boom!

Here's my cat doing her party trick. She lies on the ground and doesn't move for hours - hilarious.

Collared dove, Athlone, October 1st, 2009.

If birds of a feather actually *do* flock together, this must be an albino sparrow.

Sunset, Ballinhassig, Cork, Ireland (September 27th 2009)

Let's get out of here, this is place is terrible!

Another one taken over my wall. Why doesn't anything interesting ever happen INSIDE the perimetre of my garden?

Sunset seen through the top of my outdoor stove. Presence of spider webs indicates lack of use of same, or else heat-tolerant arachnids. Cork 11/09/09

Ballinhassig, Cork. Sept 11th 2009. Farm next to my house.

It's how they would have wanted to go.