Heirloom Felines

Those of you who follow the blog closesly and read the comments will know that my friend Adam is a regular reader and always ready to offer advice. But more than that, I like to make sure that the blog is not just mine but that everyone feels they are getting something out of it. Yesterday Jacko made some insightful references to how hilarious cats are, and specifically cats eating invisible sandwiches and cats riding invisible bicycles. I have to apologise Jacko, I looked high and low for pictures as you described but couldn't find any. Then by some wierd coincidence as I was sitting down to eat my dinner tonight I managed to grab this snap in my lounge room. Luckily I had my camera near to hand otherwise I may never have been quick enough to take this incredible action shot of an invisible cat riding a bicycle while eating a sandwich. Its not quite what you were after Jacko, but I hope it will do for the mean time.


On the garden front, today I ordered some heirloom vegetable seeds and some pink eye seed potatoes. Its impossible to find pink eye potatoes up here so I am looking forward to planting them in August. But this weekend is pea planting time. A mate at work also had a pretty good idea today. A colleague who retired about 6 months ago was an absolute whiz vegie gardener. Apparently he was very keen on the heirloom vegie movement, that is, maintaining the heirloom varieties of vegies that are now so hard to find. From time to time you hear someone complaining that vegies don't taste like they used to in the good old days. Well this is because they don't! Modern commercial vegetables are bred for characteristics like shelf life, robustness during transport, etc. They are not for bred for taste. Strawberries are a classic example. The extremely tasty varieties of yesteryear are nowhere to be seen in the supermarket because they are now bred to be resiliant in transport and on the shelf. The same goes for tomatoes. My old colleague was reknowned for his tomatoes, so I hope to be able to get some help and heirloom tomato seeds ready for the tomato season. I presage some serious sauce making in my future.

More news tomorrow.