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Adenanthos cunninghamii Albany Woollybush. The tiniest red flowers that honey eaters love.

Atriplex cinerea grey saltbush. The leaves look like they have been delicately engraved with a cobblestone pattern

Banksia ashbyi in all its sunburst orange flower glory.

Site inspector Gonzo the polish pekin bantam cross chicken checking all bugs have been eaten.

After the rain 🌱

Leptospermum rubrum. Deepest pink nearly red flowers with maroon foliage.

Correa Dusky Bells looking as the name suggests.

Chamelaucium uncinatum or Geraldton Wax in pink.

Grevillea speciosa with its spider like red flower.

After the rain 🌱

Control is the Oldest Reflex From custody to culture to the page, the state still decides who gets to speak, survive, and be seen - even during reconciliation week.

Felt compelled to write this. On the state of things, this Reconciliation Week. First Nations people in this country are under constant attack. Subject to systems and attitudes designed to control and silence us. We resist by speaking out.

It does. I'd never thought of that

Red grevillea flower with a honey bee helping itself to its pollen.

Two red grevillea flowers suspended gently below delicate grey foliage covered branches

Grevillea grabrilimba 🌱

Ashby's dwarf banksia has its first flower after being planted two years ago. Beautiful golden yellow tone. There are two developing flowers in the background.

Ashby's banksia looking from above.

Dwarf banksia prionotes flower almost full bloomed with a few rows at the top still in their fluffy white capsule.

Banksia prionotes from above showing the contrast between full bloom and top waiting to bloom

Banksia watch. There's a new kid on the block 🌱

Award judges resign after Queensland state library strips writer’s prize over Hamas tweet One resignation letter expresses ‘disgust’ over library’s decision to rescind First Nations author’s $15,000 award after arts minister weighs in

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

tiny Ruby red berries hanging from the delicate thin branches of a sprawling tangle of a saltbush.

Saltbush is in full flower and the berries are appearing and ripening. Tastie little morsels if I can beat the birds, goanna and chickens to them. My lucky day today obviously. 🌱

Rupert's Place A grandfather, a caravan, and a past that never let go

New from me for The Spencer Street End.

Two packaged icecream sandwiches from Kuld Creamery. The one on the left is cookie dough and the one on the right is chocolate double fudge brownie. There are some sneaky fingers coming in to steal the cookie dough one

The chocolate double fudge brownie unveiled and sitting atop of its packaging

The cookie dough a top it's packaging

A curly haired white person wearing glasses and sitting outside a shop eating the chocolate double fudge brownie icecream sandwich and laughing because it's so good

Birthday cake but it's sandwiching icecream. Perfection.

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You will need to make long-term plans. In captivity they can live up to 80yrs I think. I can hear the wild ones here chatting at night sometimes.

A Djakal-ngakal (pink and grey galah) perched a top the frame of my clothesline, looking back over its wing toward the camera.

So many different shades of grey on this little friend #ausbird 🦉

Your writing, as always, speaks in ways that inform but also spark the deepest of reflection.

Echoing of the white gaze in Evie Wyld’s The Echoes - Overland literary journal Wyld’s creation of voiceless-nameless-lifeless Blak people in The Echoes serves no narrative purpose. This novel is not truth-telling of invasion and occupation, and it does not envision justice for A...

I tried to resist writing about this particular white gazed book, but couldn't. Here's my essay on Evie Wyld's dehumanisation of Blak people, and co-option of Blak trauma for her latest sad white girl novel. Harmful white gazed novels need to be left in colonial eras. overland.org.au/2025/02/echo...

It was the first thing I put in my muted list so if it did get here I was ready. It's the worst

The relief the MHT I use will be on the PBS come March is real. I don't use the full dose because that's not always in the budget. This means I will have full benefit from the medication. Hopefully it will make it accessible to more people experiencing perimenopause & postmenpausal symptoms.

An Australian White Ibis in silhouette standing majestically a top a shed roof with the pre sunset sky bright behind. This one is a real poser.

Monsieur Ibis
#addbirder #ausbirds

I guess if you could get it established it would be ok. I do find banksia take a good 4-5 years before their tap root gets deep enough for them to really take off here. I am right near the coast so no frosts but heaps of wind and salt.

Glad he's feeling better. Hope you get to catch up on your sleep tonight. I've been nursing a crook chook the last week or so. I envy you your local vet.

A mighty big one 😆

Goal Posts The uneven bounce of the playing field

I’m back on the tools for The Spencer Street End. This time about the odds stacked against us depending on which post code we’re born in.

Banksia prionotes ‘Dwarf’

Orange banksia flower against a blue summer sky. Opening from the bottom up two thirds. The top third is still white and fluffy. The green serrated leaves form a tangled mess below.

Two banksia flowers in the late afternoon light. They are half in bloom the bottom orange the top white. On the flower on the right a Bandin/New Holland Honeyeater is holding on tight and feeding on the nectar.

Banksia watch is in full swing. My most mature shrub is flowering earlier than past years. Not complaining and neither are the birds 🌱🐦

I have always loved this song. Seeing her live is still one of my favourite concerts. Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach opened for her. It was brilliant.

So good. Her albums never disappoint

KitLane - Etsy Shop Needle felted wool bunnies, bears, bobs and other stuff by KitLane. Top shop for gifts. Buyers bought gifts from this shop and gave them 5-star reviews!.

www.etsy.com/shop/KitLane

I don't believe she is. I've had intermittent contact these last few years and she was into more digital pursuits. The etsy store still exists but no stock.