Dread
Summer is coming like a giant steamroller, belching smoke and flame, sounding like a hurricane wind as it flattens all in its path
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Valediction
I have never had, in a long life of creating ideas, and things, a serious review of any of it. No serious consideration of what was attempted, what were the problems, what was achieved. But then you don’t get that for your life itself I suppose,
She shows them pearly white
The saying “as rare as hen’s teeth” only works if, now and then, a hen is born with teeth. But in this world, though not in the Age of Dinosaurs, the saying should be “as non-existent as hen’s teeth”.
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The hours
An hour spent with chickens grazing in an orchard is an hour well spent, especially in old age.
Idyll
A country garden sounds like a quaint, quiet, idyllic place, where Percy Grainger could write a chirpy piece of music which goes nowhere. If the country is Australia though the country garden is a place green in tooth and claw. Plants struggle against wind and drought, rabbits, parrots possums and kangaroos, pigs, goats, sheep, weeds
No room in the neurones
He who is tired of learning has been doing it for seventy three years and needs to rest
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Best time to plant a tree
In later life you are gardening not for yourself but for your successors.
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Fly away
All of that effort to raise a young Magpie – sitting on eggs for weeks, backwards and forwards bringing beakfuls of juicy worms and beetles, ends as a sad bunch of feathers smeared across a busy road. Much like children in a war zone.
Old man in dry month
Rain rain come and play, stay away another day.
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