Another new class 20180625

Went to my first Monday class at Udavi school today.  They have cut down the big tree so the class were clearing up all the material from that which was spread all over the garden.  This class is the one which had their first year in the garden last year. 

They got down to the work immediately and knew what to do.  It showed me how far they have come in the last twelve months.

Busy rest day 20180624

Had a very busy day clearing up some more shelves, seeing a Newcomer, talking to a friend on Skype about a farm he wants to set up in Portugal and doing my hair.

Phew!

A new school class 20180623

Yesterday I went to the new school class Year 7 who are going to spend time in the Udavi school garden for the first time.  Funny to go right back to the beginning again with another class.  I had forgotten how little they know at the beginning…. I had to show them how to clear the beds of the plants from last year as well as explain to them about Tamil Nadu seasons.

I was meant to go to the garden again this afternoon but it was cancelled because the group were doing some project work or something.  This has happened before with this group.

Happy Birthday 20180622

I love the mysteriousness of this picture of Ganesh in the evening all lit up for Magzhiran’s birthday.

Had a lovely gathering with meal and two birthday cakes, one of which was ice cream and melted rather fast.  Magzhiran is three years old today.

Ready to go 20180621

At last our pineapples are ready to go.  They have been on the verge of being ripe enough for a long time.  So it seems to have taken ages to get them to this point.

Creating 20180620

Tried very hard to start the new video about weeding, but it won’t come together yet.  So have cleared up some writing jobs instead.  Easier than trying to bring together the visual, intellectual and emotional elements of weeds for the video!

This is my favorite picture of today which shows the basil on the automatically watered bed growing much better than the basil on the conventionally watered bed.  All the clips and photos came out much better now the aperture of the camera is clean.

Dirt 20180619

This morning we were doing some weeding and I was very pleased with the clips and photos I took – until I uploaded them.  Then I found that there were various blurry bits on the images.  I looked at the lens aperture to see what looked like slime on the glass.  It looked as if a slimy something had crawled across the glass.  Fortunately whatever it was cleaned off quite easily with a cloth and water.

I’ve obviously got to be a lot more careful about keeping the camera clean.  As I’m usually using it in the garden, often while working there, my hands are often quite dirty.  Although how that mark got on the glass I don’t know as I try hard not to touch that part of the camera.  Maybe I have to cover up the aperture when I’m not using it.