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Microplot design, #2

Posted on January 3, 2016 by tikiwanderer

Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke), basil, tomato, choko. I actually don’t know which number this is, but I think it’s the second one I’ve posted about. This microplot is in the “vegie garden” section (zone 3A) of my trials, so it is … Continue reading →

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Off topic: Short Screenplay Challenge #2 – Women’s Business

Posted on December 21, 2015 by tikiwanderer

Here’s my 5-page entry for the second challenge of round 1 of the NYCMidnight Short Screenplay Challenge. I was assigned: Genre: mystery Location: a vet clinic Object that must be included: a champagne bottle 4_Women’s_Business

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Off-topic: Short Screenplay Challenge round 1 – Microaggressions

Posted on November 4, 2015 by tikiwanderer

I’ve been trying to learn to write screenplays for some time. Thought I’d give my skills a bit of a push with the NYCMidnight Short Screenplay Challenge. Scripts have to be a maximum of 5 pages. My group (of 30-odd … Continue reading →

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Off topic – Flash Fiction Challenge round 3 – Grains of Paradise

Posted on October 29, 2015 by tikiwanderer

I made it to round 3 of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge. Which I’m pretty chuffed about – I had to be one of the five best in my group of 30-odd across the previous two rounds, and I … Continue reading →

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Off topic: Flash Fiction Challenge entry for round 2: Might and Power

Posted on September 23, 2015 by tikiwanderer

I promise I’ll get back to the agri-writing shortly, I have a couple of blog posts I’ve been working on to do with interesting ideas and on seasonal activities, plus it’s a great time of year for photographing weeds and … Continue reading →

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Off-topic: Flash Fiction Challenge 2015 entry for round 1: The Maiden With A Drill.

Posted on August 5, 2015 by tikiwanderer

Just an off-topic entry for a moment! Stepping away from the agriculture and ecological writing to put up my entry for the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge round 1. The competition involves writing flash fiction stories (under 1000 words) that … Continue reading →

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Early winter, and working in the understorey

Posted on May 24, 2015 by tikiwanderer

I’m going out to plant quinoa shortly. I have no idea if it’s a good time to try planting it or not – quinoa is a tricky crop for Perth because it needs a long time of cold before germination, … Continue reading →

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Makuru, or winter

Posted on May 30, 2014 by tikiwanderer

By the six season calendar we’re now in “winter”, or Makuru to give it the indigenous name. On the seasonal wheels you see around the place it’s marked as being approximately June and July, but that’s a white person’s fiction. … Continue reading →

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The redbud bed, and zone 3B

Posted on May 18, 2014 by tikiwanderer

The bed I planted the redbud tree (Cercis siliquastrum) in last year is coming along very well, so I thought I’d show what’s happening in that bed and that zone. Zone 3B is one of my watered zones, but the … Continue reading →

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Standing in the rain with a hose, watering the plants

Posted on January 28, 2014 by tikiwanderer

I don’t know if my neighbours look out their windows late at night. But if they had the other night, they’d have seen me standing in the rain with a garden hose, watering the front garden. They, you and the … Continue reading →

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