My Latest Aquisitions!

After my ride to the gym this morning, I faced a much nicer task - going down to the organic nursery at the Northey Street City Farm and buying us a few new trees.

We’ve got a Macadamia nut, a white Mulberry, and a Lemonade fruit. Yum! I’m hoping the Mulberry, being a fast fruiter, will give us fruit within a year or two, and boy am I looking forward to it.

When I was little we had an old Mulberry tree on our property, and I used to love ferreting around in there and eating the warm fruit straight off the tree. Good memories

I’ll be starting these little guys off in pots, and perhaps planting them out when we buy our own place.

But they will have company…

Well, I rode to the gym

And boy, was it evil. It took me 22 minutes to get there, and 26 minutes to get back. Now, there were some nasty hills on the way there, but even nastier ones on the way back! I spent about 25 minutes at the gym in the middle - so it was a good mornings work out. Mentally, I feel good for having done it, but it certainly took all the willpower I had to get to the top of some of those hills! Even though I’m reasonably fit, I certainly felt cranky at all the lycra-clad ’serious’ cyclists with their ultra-light racing bikes as they whizzed by me on my heavy old mountain bike!

However, I shall do my challenge! One week, riding to the gym every time I go.