Wednesday's class started with botany again, today looking at the cell structure of plants. It was a class that had me reaching back into the very dark and distant recesses of my mind to recall fourth and fifth form science. That was a long time ago... ;-) All made pretty good sense though. We're starting to get assignments - most of out ( Read more... )

Today's classes started not at the BHU but at Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua, down the road towards Lincoln township. The bus got me there early and I stopped into the New World supermarket across the road before heading over. This New World has only been open 5 weeks, according to the shop assistant I spoke to. It has two wind turbines in the ( Read more... )

Monday being a public holiday (yay!) there was just the one class this week, which I'm a bit late on writing up since we seem to have suddenly become social butterflies. :-) Started the day digging over a bit more of my patch. I'm torn about taking out the artichoke - there are quite a few little artichokes forming on it, but it takes up well over ( Read more... )