Covid 19

So what a world we are in now with Covid-19 and Ukraine.

I was very scared to catch covid because I have mild asthma and diabetes, have managed to not catch covid for 2 years until Jan 31-2022 when I had the worst sore throat that I'd ever experienced. It felt like I had swallowed a razor blade. I knew in my heart that it was Covid so I took a RAT test and there was a faint second line. At first I wouldn't believe that it was positive so waited 2 days to be able to go to a testing station to get a PCR test. 

Luckily we had stocked panadol and nurofen, two medicines that we needed and ate like lollies. the panadol helped with the headaches and the nurofen helped with the body aches. Wish I had dry throat cough medicine too because my throat was very sore. So I made this throat tonic that I found on a blog by Down to Earth  

3 - 4 inch long piece of ginger

2 lemons thinly sliced

1 litre water

1/2 cup raw honey

In a medium saucepan add the water, ginger and lemons and bring to a boil. Gently simmer for 20 minutes. Turn off the heat, put the lid on the saucepan and let it sit for two hours. Add honey, stir until its completely dissolved and pour into a sterilised bottle.

You can keep the ginger and lemon and recycle it, going through the above process again. The flavour wont be as strong but its definitely worth getting two batches.

To make up the tonic for use, make a hot tea with it by adding boiling water to 2 tablespoon s of syrup, add it to the black tea using the same amount or make it into a cold drink.

I hope you dont get covid, its not very pleasant, I reckon we got the middle version. 

I wrote down everything that happened to me:

Garden bed

 Well gardening has started back again after our deluge. I had this garden bed built by Len The Worm Farmer ages ago and didn't have time to get it going. This weekend hubby and I got stuck into filling it.

Firstly with stones to give it some drainage, underneath is cardboard to stop the weeds from coming up.

Then we put mulch in which I forgot to take a photo of

The stones are about 2 inches deep

The height of the bed

Mushroom compost in with valleys so I was able to put some food scraps in them and will cover them with used coffee grinds. then I will add some potting soil, manure, worm castings.

As you can see I have a long way to fill up the bed. It will be the healthiest bed we have put it because I started it with good stuff

Garden Club Jo's garden take two

Those of you who read my blog have seen this garden that I attended in one of the two Garden Clubs I belong to on Macleay Island. Jo and I are members of both clubs.  

The club these photos were taken at yesterday, we call Len's Garden Club (The Worm farm Man), <hubby calls it Len's Harem because Len is the only male (until yesterday) who attends and the rest are women. But yesterday we had 4 men attend woohoo.

As you can see many of Jo's flowers were in bloom in March compared to November photos in the links below.

Please enjoy the wonderful garden of Jo's. Jo is also a garden designer and goes under the name of 

PIMP MY BUSHES Jo has teamed up with Sheridan a Horticulturist. 

Give them a call if you want your garden designed.

Jo 0403 822 990 - Sheridan 0449 267 020

Here are the March photos to enjoy:

November this was Jo's garden you can see below in the links:

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My daughter Emma and her charity challenge walk for Three Peaks

My youngest daughter Emma challenged herself to climb 3 peaks in Melbourne Victoria, Australia on three consecutive days last week. I am so proud of her for believing in herself. 

This is what she wrote and the pictures of the group that did the climbs.

I love you Emma.

Hey family, friends, workmates,

 

I wanted to say a huge thank you to you all for supporting my hiking efforts by donating to Whitelion. I really appreciate everyone’s support!

 

The event was amazing – I really enjoyed it. The weather started out with torrential rain, it was scary to drive there. But it eased off to a light-moderate rain for the rest of it and I actually really appreciate that rain. It made the whole experience feel a lot more connected to nature than hiking already does for you.

 

My biggest moment of struggle was climbing the littlest mountain haha.

 

I loved this event so much that I’m going to do it all again in April. They’re hosting it twice and we’re allowed to do both. Why not!

I’m also keen to sign up to be a guide next year. I really love that this has gotten me back into hiking.

 

Hearing from the Whitelion CEO and two of their young people that they support was really uplifting. Knowing where our money was going and the impact it has on these lives made the whole experience feel that much more special. Your donations are all going towards a wonderful cause.

 

Thank you again 

Emma