The east coast of Australia has been awash this past week - it's cleared up today but the rivers are still flooding, with peak water yet to hit some towns. This always startled me as a NZer - back there it rains, the rivers rise, it goes out to sea, the rivers go down - but in Australia it can take days or even weeks for the floodwaters to hit. Not so much with this flooding because it's near the coast but I still find it strange. Anyway dry old Canberra has had what I would call two days of nice solid rain and the weather people here call an unprecedented rain event ... but our roof didn't leak so we are very happy. And of course it's good for the garden.
Here are the pittosporums that I was worried my husband had killed - clearly not dead and in fact looking very perky. Not yet the hedge we want, but getting there. The weekend was very quiet other than a lunch with friends at a restaurant out at Bungendore in an old inn with an open fire which suited the raininess perfectly. Number one is busy with uni and number two is very busy indeed with end of term assessments and his big musical which opens tomorrow night. Hours upon hours of rehearsal on top of school - he will be very happy when the holidays finally hit.
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