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Sunday, 18 January 2009

Book of the Week: The Invention of Clouds... The extraordinary tale of Luke Howard and the birth of meteorology... What is most amazing is how by simply defining 6 words this discipline took off in leaps and bounds. Highly recommended!

You will be pleased to know that Green Card is back online... Someone managed to guess the password somehow - rather than any particular flaw in the code (human error I guess you could call it - I made the password too simple or distributed it to too many people!)... At least I hope that's all it was!

Apart from that it has been a weekend of home improvements... Mostly turning over the soil for growing veggies (and finding some very weathered 1958 pennies in the process), planting fruit trees and native herbs, and repainting old furniture with the spare paint from the shed. I read that the imagery of a pair of birds in feng shui is suitable for the southwest corner of the bedroom so I repainted my previously fluorescent blue and yellow chest of draws to match the room with a simple design... It worked out well as the yellow blended into the walls and so the room still looks spacious! While I was doing that Ganesh started work on the pond... When I planned the garden out I decided to capture the water from the shed roof via a simple water wheel into a pond as extra water storage for when the drought is extreme. He did a fantastic job digging a deep hole, about 2m long 1m wide and 50cm deep... It will have to be reduced to 30cm deep to comply with the law, but the amazing part was that we struck a layer of clay at the bottom. We had a lot of fun spreading clay all over the sides of the hole to seal it... I felt like I was in a New Zealand mud spa - the texture of the wet clay was like cream! I finally understand why people enjoy mud baths!

This evening we had dinner with my aunts and uncle at a lovely Thai restaurant in Alphington and tasted some deliciously sweet mulberries from their farm... we are now listening to Osho videos on you tube. Osho turns out to be on the surface a crazy Indian guru... "I know for sure God does not exist. And thank-God he does not exist!"... But under his jocular exterior he makes some interesting points, and he also is a fantastic example of a person who so easily introduces humour into his speech. While his humour is a little more crass, Osho does remind me of Douglas Adams - the greatest author of all time!

Labels: book, home improvements, osho

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