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The sunbirds are back, the pomegranate is in flower and they come to check it out. Another fine picture of a small dark bird:
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23 March 2022, Sa Kaeo
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^They look nice and healthy compared to my scabby little stragglers
Was in my garden... Then in my kitchen jar...
...a Striped Marsh Frog
Those are the ones that go 'Tok' with a sharp single high pitched call
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And finally in my Tom Yum soup.
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Only joking, he is alive and kicking
For a few years we kept this area over the back wall sprayed and tidy, now gone for the jungle look apart from a 1m scorched-earth strip alongside the wall.
Bananas and papaya.
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It is Spring and a young Garden lizard's thoughts turn to love. Getting into its red mating colours.
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^^Nice and jungly Prawns
^That is a ruddy tumescent palor if ever I saw one
A custard apple will be in my garden soon.
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Mini Minx wanted to pinch one off my neigbours tree 2 years ago. I went with her after her reconnaissance exercise but the next neighbour along was wandering round so we had to pretend we were not about to steal anything and walk on and the opportunity slipped away.
Then I saw them for sale in Coles.
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Bargain and so yummy and I got 20 seeds too.
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They do not grow true to type as they are a Mendelian hybrid but I will try and grow them anyway.
Today in my garden there is a huge cock and balls
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I cut it just for fun but then the carburettor flooded so it will still be there for the flying instructors and their young trainee pilots to see tomorrow when they are doing their Sunday pilots training course fly overs.
Maybe make a rockery around it and plant some pink and purple flowers inside.
A hillside carving in the shape of a giant PENIS which has appeared on a mountainside has become a tourist attraction
‘Recent snowfall has seen the phallic symbol become visible for miles in the North Wales countryside.
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And it is baffling locals as well as attracting visitors.
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^That one is bigger than mine
The Asparagus Triffid grand florid finale is progressing gradually...
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Some pics of the cute little Striped Marsh Frog before his release back to the garden
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I've learnt not to raise my hopes too much when walking around the garden on my return home after a work trip.
But I was a bit disappointed to have to point out to the 'gardener' that this tree looked past it's prime.
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I saw these two on a lime tree branch... friend or foe?
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But some good news... the lemon tree has finally decided to bear fruit. We have about eight big lemons developing and I may have to invest in a bottle of gin to celebrate.
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I have no idea what they are. They have a sort of guilty look. Similar to a Stink Bug. Did they have a pong about them?
I have the gin, sadly the few flowers on my Thai lemon trees turned into nothing at all. Maybe we can work something out here. :)
I believe the going rate is 5 fresh lemons for a bottle of Gordon's?
^ Bottles, plural?
I've never heard of anyone owning more than one gin bottle before. Well posh.
Unlike Gordon's. :D
They've redesigned their bottles but it's still bog standard gin.
Trumped by Tanq.
For me, yes. Gordon's is older, Tanqueray started up later and the two eventually got together at some point. The name of the Royal Warrant holder is Tanqueray Gordon & Company Ltd. Of course it is all Diageo now.
Gordon's is now sold in smaller, 70cl bottles. They sneaked that past an unsuspecting public. Bombay and Tanqueray are still 75cl. Or, when available, 1 litre.
The opportunity came up to acquire a case. It seemed rude not to.
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This fella appeared from the forest looking a bit confused.
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Must have taken a wrong turning somewhere as you rarely get kangaroos here.
This is wallaby turf.
Unless it maybe is a Bennett's Wallaby... :scratchchin:
Was in my garden...
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Now in my kitchen
Got there before the bastard wallaby this year!
I have seen quite a few of these lizards in our garden lately. Not this color though.
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Potato flakes next to a bowl of water for the rats.
Or time for a build project with your Daughter:
Best Homemade Mouse Trap Use From Bucket&Cardboard - Mouse Trap In Action 2021 - YouTube
Air rifle for the squirrels.
Or get a Jack Russell.