Water: Pretty darn good

I've got to thinking about water recently.

The essence of life.

Growing up in Adelaide in the 1970s it was fair sport to complain about the water. "Adelaide tap water" was an epithet my dad used regularly.

But times move on. The days of runninh a bath that has a brown tinge and an earthy smell. Gone. And our water is safe to drink. At 0.4 cents per litre.

There's a far higher chance of getting poisoned out of a rainwater tank.

Sure, by comparison, Melbourne water or spring water are sweet, sweet life. But where ours costs a maximum of $3.84 per kilolitre.

The sweet sweet life you see below costs about $640 per kilolitre.

Adelaide water is pretty damn good.

Boar taint: yuk!

I swear that the reason pork sells so badly is because of a thing called "boar taint".

By the time a male pig gets to a certain age, his hormones make the meat such that it stinks - almost like it has gone off.

It takes a strong stomach to get through that and most people just say "yuk! I don't like pork"

But I've gotten past that. Sweet pork loin chops are a special thing. I bought some rind just today to make a plate of crackling

Bup bowww. I got most of the way through cooking it but just can't stand any more. It's disgusting. I'm sure it's boar taint.

Seems like the dog has had a win tonight. And Coles might need to think better about their suppliers.

Setting fruit: A nice part of spring

Compost: There's something very special about spring

A nice lemon merengue pie

Still trying to deal with the pastry, but a nice pie.

Hard pruned citrus: Now the grapefruit

Before we know it, the citrus will be moving. A blood orange i just pruned lightly was just building its flowers.

So it was time for the grapefruit. The hardest I've ever pruned this one. But at least I got all the citrus galls off.

And will I kill the plant? I'll stand on my record.

Perennial basil seem to be doing fine

A buddy ripped off a few shreds of this and said it's the best yield plant he's ever had.

A few weeks in water to set some roots and now they're planted out. Sharing the early spring with some poppies. And the Trinidad Scorpion Chilli is overwintering nicely.