Springing to life!

Self seeded coriander

Spring has sprung and Ms Tagalong has come out of winter hibernation ready to start chattering. In fact she is so garrulous you might wish she was still sleeping....

It's time for workshops, time for Cocktails in the Garden, pizzas and laughter. Time for planting, time for weeding and making compost. Time to listen to the birds, attract the bees and feed the chickens.

Ms Mova is feeling very smug and so she should be. Ms Tagalong is feeling equally excited. We welcome back the Chicken Whisperer into our midst, fresh from a southerly sojourn, ready to add her wisdom and knowledge to the garden.

Mr Ideasman is of course full of ideas and so plans are afoot for a fabulous Splendour in the Garden. Not to be outdone by Byron Bay, there will be music by local bands, pizza from the famous oven, coffee from a coffee cart and oh of course plenty of gardening activity from our workshop presenters.

Our wonderful community garden hasn't been left totally in the dark, comments, photos are to be found on our facebook page and if you would like newsletter updates just give us your email address.

So that's it, from the dark to the light, we welcome all into the garden!

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The last hurrah!

Actually it was probably the last halleluia as the local songsters did all the neighbourhood proud singing their little hearts out with the famous Newcastle German choir last Saturday evening. Mr Choirmaster was able to breathe a few sighs of relief for a job well done. Those of you who missed these angelic carollers also missed the pizza oven which worked like a Trojan churning out pizza after pizza. Oh no, sorry, that was the conscripted Greek who was sweating profusely placing pizza after pizza in the oven!


The Germans waxed lyrical over the pizzas and the garden. What a perfect venue yet again for a community event. With all the rain we have been having Ms Mova was sincerely hoping that the heavens were not going to open and all the displaced carollers, pizza eaters and the like were not going to want to decamp into her house. Ms Mova has confided in Ms Tagalong though that she loves her home being open to all; maybe just not that all!

Ms Tagalong was lucky to take this photo of the wonderful Junior Master Chef's Gingerbread House creation but was unlucky not to have tasted it as the hordes of children made short work in demolishing it!


Serendipitous is a word which springs to mind about that night. Serendipitous that it didn't rain; serendipitous that four skilled pizza makers turned up ready to create; serendipitous that the champagne was flowing - well we needed some fortification to hit the high notes!


It was a fitting way to remember the garden as we head off to inspect the community gardens of Mongolia and Siberia!

For those dedicated followers of this blog Ms Tagalong reminds you that she will do her best to update it when she is out and about globetrotting and stumbles across anything green and garden related but the weekly update will be a thing of the past for a year, she fears.

For those of you who like reading about travels Ms Tagalong invites you to follow her travel blog. Fare thee well fellow gardeners and a very merry holiday season to you all wherever you are!