It's been a windy weekend, Saturday being taken up with Alison's garage sale (ours next weekend) and Old Farts' tennis, so David hasn't had much fishing. Crayfishing has been hopeless: only rats for several weeks BUT Sunday was garfish day and he caught 43 big beauties.
Neville Bonney, plantsman and author, came for lunch on Friday and took David on a discovery tour of Douglas Point Conservation Park. Here I was thinking it was just a bare windswept headland - no - it's important for the conservation of the sandhills everlasting plant, Ixodia, and the Rufous Bristle Bird , which obligingly ran across the road in front of them thus proving its continued existence.
Meanwhile back at the ranch I have been busy picking peas, tomatoes (get that, they're early!), lebanese cucumbers, pattypan squash, beetroot from the tunnel house and a few bandicooted potatoes. Also we now have internet with NBN installed upstairs as a fixed wireless network. So I am back on eBay with mixed success: oddments sell better than books of which I have 550 of my personal collection to photograph and describe on ABE.
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