daviddablogger
Monday and a short week at work with Thursday being a holiday , Australia Day, and I'm taking Friday off to make a 4 day weekend. Anything else would be un-Australian.
Spent Saturday cleaning our pond since the palm tree had been dropping fruits into the water and they were rotting in the water and finally poisoned the fish.
Despite losing the fish, we have another crop of hundreds of tadpoles. They were obviously able to tolerate the poisonous water, tho' I'm not sure I would survive the stench of clearing out the slimy mud at the bottom of the pond.
When the tree has finished fruiting we'll re fill the pond and introduce the taddies, safe and sound without any fish to eat them.
Currently reading a book about a 17 th century blogger, Samual Peyes.
He lived through very turbulent times satrting with the English civil war, the ascent of Cromwell and the beheading of Charles the !st, the restoration of Charles the 2nd, the black plague, and the great fire of London, plus various wars against the French and the Dutch.
All this time he kept highly detailed diaries of his everyday life and events as they affected him, his carreer, his marriage, family and friends.
He rose from a clerk to a prosperous and influential civil servant, became a member of parliament and was put in the Tower of London on the suspicion of being a catholic.
Apaently the original diaries are written in the language of the 16 hundreds, along with numerous latin , Italian, and French words, so the book is an easy and interesting way to access the blogger of his time.
The Unequalled Self by Clare Tomalin . 8 out fo 10 for those mildly interested in history.
