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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Singapore a home away from home
I've been coming to Singapore teaching for over eight years now and it holds little mystery for me.
I like the place. I tell you I could live for $80 + $30 here quite comfortably (daily accom + food). In fact I did, last year, when I was doing some work here, off the employer's purse. Here's today's $9 lunch:
The heat and some crowds tend to drive us crazy a little, but it's a pretty well run country.
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I like the place. I tell you I could live for $80 + $30 here quite comfortably (daily accom + food). In fact I did, last year, when I was doing some work here, off the employer's purse. Here's today's $9 lunch:
The heat and some crowds tend to drive us crazy a little, but it's a pretty well run country.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Chooks in the parkland
I've always found it nice to see these two as I walk to work here in Singapore.
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Goodbye house for this week
I'll leave nature and the Habel family to run with the garden project for a week.
There's still a lot of moisture in the soil, so while I'm in Singapore the system will run well.
We should have lots of broad beans on my return.
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There's still a lot of moisture in the soil, so while I'm in Singapore the system will run well.
We should have lots of broad beans on my return.
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Edan's Pelargonium
My boy picked a flower for my wife. Which is lovely.
I paid a few $ for this plant a few years ago, but I propagated it to a dozen or so.
And it's now a part of the fabric of our lives. Nice.
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I paid a few $ for this plant a few years ago, but I propagated it to a dozen or so.
And it's now a part of the fabric of our lives. Nice.
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Chooks will beat weevils for you
Here's a look at weevil damage:
They sit in the leaf litter under a plant during the day, come out at night and take monstrous chunks out of your plant's leaves. Weevils love citrus, as here, but they will go after many things and the damage is huge.
The chemical treatments are harsh. Spray a ring of Carbaryl or Bathyroid around the trunk of your tree which is meant to stop them climbing it. Bad chemicals - I'll use them when I have to but would rather not.
But the chooks are good.
They jump into my big pots and scratch them up, and you can see them eating whatever it is they scratch out. Scratch scratch, peck peck.
And then they move on. I top up the soil and the job is done.
Important - if you're planning to put chookies into action for this, desist from using those bad chemicals for a year. Who needs that stuff in our food stream?
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They sit in the leaf litter under a plant during the day, come out at night and take monstrous chunks out of your plant's leaves. Weevils love citrus, as here, but they will go after many things and the damage is huge.
The chemical treatments are harsh. Spray a ring of Carbaryl or Bathyroid around the trunk of your tree which is meant to stop them climbing it. Bad chemicals - I'll use them when I have to but would rather not.
But the chooks are good.
They jump into my big pots and scratch them up, and you can see them eating whatever it is they scratch out. Scratch scratch, peck peck.
And then they move on. I top up the soil and the job is done.
Important - if you're planning to put chookies into action for this, desist from using those bad chemicals for a year. Who needs that stuff in our food stream?
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