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....and daughter S’ card wasn’t the only wonderful creation I received. Check out the wife’s card too. Just beautiful. The whole lot made from scratch including working out the cutting template. Beautiful! #wifesnotbadtoo

OK, so it was my birthday this week, and while I normally wouldn’t brag about that I feel I have to in order to share the beautiful card daughter S made for me. Isn’t it beautiful! It goes with the yummy deli hamper they gave me as a present #cooldaughter #sotalented #watercolour #deli

Inktober Day 14 and 16: #overgrown and #wild . There are some forms of environmental disasters that start in our own back yard. Invasive weeds are among the most serious threats to Australia's natural environment and primary production industries. They displace native species, contribute significantly to land degradation, and reduce farm and forest productivity. The largest proportion of environmental weeds are horticultural species that have escaped from cultivation....literately our own back gardens. While a little forgotten today, one of the most spectacularly disastrous examples of invasive weeds imported into Australia was the Prickly Pear. Prickly pears were first imported in the 19th century for use as a natural agricultural fence and in an attempt to establish a cochineal dye industry. In 1901 the Queensland Government offered a reward of £5,000 for the discovery of a satisfactory method of destroying prickly pear. The reward was doubled in 1907. Nothing was effective. By 1920, prickly pear was completely out of control, infesting some 60 million acres of land in New South Wales and Queensland. It was estimated at the time that the pear was spreading at the rate of one million acres a year! The solution was finally found in the moth Cactoblastis cactorum from South America, whose larvae eat prickly pear. After it was introduced in 1925 it almost wiped out the prickly pear population. This case is often cited as the most successful example of biological pest control. My own Grandfather, Nelson Johnston - a senior lecturer in botany and entomology at Hawkesbury Agricultural College and then chairman of Agrisearch consulting - was in some way involved in this war against prickly pear, amongst other weeds and infestations he dedicated his life to eradicate. He was considered throughout the NSW rural community as quite the #legend for the work he did (so i guess that makes Inktober Day 15 too). For #inktober2019 but I want to use the prompts to focus on climate issues this year #climatestrike #climatechange #climatecrisis #alarmbells #oneminutetomidnight #pricklypear

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