Jan 22nd: Today was very hot - 30 degrees by 10.30am and then stayed about 28 in the shade all the rest of the day. We've finished tea and it's still 27 so it'll be another sticky night trying to get the boys off to bed! More schooling this morning and then another swimming lesson at lunchtime. The outdoor pool was beautiful on such a hot day. The supervision levels are different from the UK. Once you are 8 you can swim without an adult. We turned up for our lesson to find five children aged about 10, no other adult present except the lifeguard, who was indoors filling out her timesheet! Usually the lifeguard is indoors, even when the pool is full of kids after school and no adults around (it's kind of used as a babysitting service). The photo is of my veggie garden, behind the garage. It hasn't been used for years but neighbours used a small digger to turn it over for me. I'm growing onions, leeks, cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, peas, beans, tomatoes, rhubarb, potatoes, yams, carrots, silver beet, pumpkins, and herbs. As you can see it is all growing vigorously and we are busy harvesting some of it. Today our neighbour brought us some apricots, plums and cherries - all grow easily here without need for a greenhouse. The only thing I couldn't grow is blackberries. It is against the law to sell or grow blackberry bushes in this region because they are so rampant and interfere with arable crops. We miss blackberry crumble, which the boys loved and we would eat all round from dozens of kilos in the freezer.
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