April 2022

I’m looking forward to celebrating the end of daylight saving.  I reckon it goes on for a month too long!  It is all very well to have a long period of daylight in the evening for leasure activities but what about in the mornings (where the daylight was stolen from) when there are more important

March 2022

We recently visited the Waite Arboretum which occupies 27 hectares and contains about 2,500 specimens representing more than 800 species in 200 genera, all growing under natural annual rainfall of 624 mm. The Arboretum is adjacent to the Urrbrae House Historic Precinct and the Waite Conservation Reserve. I spent four years working at the Waite Institute in the late 1960’s and I’m sorry