His home has been found and he has been returned. So glad he came from a loving house, seeing dumped roosters is really sad.

Maybe this already happened and he refused so I stole all his can openers.

On the one hand the lower levels of insanity here is refreshing, on the other hand it is less engaging I guess.

This spud is a bit further along, you can see two micro tubers and one hooking.

A few months ago I gave some of my chickens a bath with flea shampoo (they had mites and chicken medications were sold out in all reachable stores) and I’m very disappointed I didn’t take photos of them scraggly, or being blow-dried, or all poofy post blow dry.

Biiiirb!

Wait, is Spinal Tap not a real band?

It’s in the Bette Midler song
From a distance the earth seems blue and green
And England seems alright.

Have a look for “Matildas Tim Tams” and see how happy they are to get a timmy tam :)

It takes a while and the ads start to get really weird and sad but they have reduced in frequency for me.

Frederick was very hungry, they didn’t feed him at the shop apparently, so he had his first run around the house today. Did a really good job.

Hi! I quite like the spice Black Stone Flower which is the lichen Parmotrema perlatum if you’ve heard of it. I think it’s really cool that there’s a lichen eaten as a spice! It apparently natively grows in Australia but I can’t find out if it grows in Tasmania at all.