Ian Smith

Graph translation into English.

If interested

When I was working in an aid program the biggest problem I saw was they were not evidence run, but started with the solution then tired to find the problem. Eg:
"I'm here to dig a well!",

"we don't need a well we need registration trucks for shipping produce to market",

"I've built you a well"!

We had USB thumbdrive bootable MSN chat to bypass the school blocks in the in the 2000's

Indigenous flowers in my garden.

They appear to struggle and then you walk out one day and find there edge 2m away :P

Or Alturnitively if you are a land manager Chilean needle grass is also flowering... Might want to map and spray that out...

Native wild flowers such as wattles and cassinia.

If you are looking for something to do this weekend, now's the time to go for a nature walk and see the wild flowers

My indigenous garden is starting to gain attention! Hopefully this blue tongue will help remove all the snails.

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo

Bridesmaid no more. Congratulations to the Tawny Frogmouth 🏆
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Guess which idiot is now seeking this induction pack under FOI?

Rose with round divots in them

Not sure what insect did these holes, how interesting.

Let's just identify it to kingdom level then. (actually the salt bush is still there looking like a sad twig).

Well that's a win, the pot I think was meant to be ruby saltbush, but I'll take a chrysocephalum!

Anyone know what this plant is? 2 plants came from one tubestock and I can't recall what I brought.

Field with rice flowers

Close up of Rice-flower

Tis the season.

Plume moth larvae, brought in to Australia to eat horehound. Lots around on my hound but they're not controlling it. Now what else can I do with horehound?

Common halfband hoverfly attracted to the indigenous cut leaf daisy.
Good for the garden as pollinator and preditor of aphids.

This puzzle sucks.

Granitic gravel with bird holes in it.

How you can tell your soil has lots of insect activity. #birdsbeingbirds

My article I wrote for HortInsights is now published in their spring edition:

www.linkedin.com/company/aust...

Genus: Daphnia Atlas of Living Australia species page for the Daphnia

Cool, Daphnia I think. bie.ala.org.au/species/http...
Filter feeders

Shout out to the person in my neighbourhood who is burning plastic in their fireplace.

The idea that mass immigration is to blame for the housing crisis doesn't stack up when you look at the data.

Over the past 20 years the amount of housing in Australia has actually increased faster than the population has grown! 📈
@elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

Head to the wreckers and grab a decoy car.

Huh, I always thought that was in Sydney.

Statue or Icarus.

Melbourne Airport, are we sure Icarus is the best statue for an airport? Like if I recall the ending of the legend correctly...

"Treasurer Joe Hockey has advised Australians wanting to buy their first home to "get a good job that pays good money".

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten immediately decried Mr Hockey's comment as "insulting" - SMH 2015

A popular gift, in fashion but not available due to rationing.

Light brown apple moths are out. (and my grapevine doesn't even have leaves yet)

If they were on the vehicle I could have made a "didn't know you drove a Ram" joke.