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Absolutely LOVE the start of the month - everyone seems excited to show off their gardens for the Hive Garden Journal challenge. It's bittersweet this month though as I know peop…

I don’t think plants can talk to us — let me get that straight. We don’t speak their language, and we don’t listen the way we listen to human shouts and cries and moans. We are all…

I don't think I've ever been this happy. Maybe it's because I've finally landed back in my heartland. Honest to goodness I'm freaking pinching myself every day. This morning afte…

### Welcome to Week 28 of the Hive Garden Question! ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/gardenhive/23tSKs2hdY4R19zPnx6XF12MMvUfgr7owKWrExVWCrL6TCbfynHguhqeGm…

My garden is the 10x5m backyard of the restaurant I used to own, and above which I still live with my daughter. It's been a little over 5 years now, and the changes are exuberant. …

Are letterboxes insanely expensive for what they are in your country? The flimsiest smallest box here is around $40. I suppose it'd be okay if I actually liked flimsy post boxes …

This morning, amongst doing the washing and tidying up at the old house, and having a ton of things to do like finish the taxes, call the carpet guy, deal with the electrician, pai…

We do joke with people overseas that all Aussies have kangaroos in their garden. But in this case, it's true. This week we woke up to three kangaroos in our front yard. One was e…

A year ago the universe rearranged itself. The stars moved over a nanometer. The moon blinked and blinked again, as if it couldn't believe it's position in the sky. The sun drap…

Sometimes you just gotta see the positives instead of focus on how you've fucked up. Be proud of what you've *tried* to achieve, rather than focus on where you ended up. Listen to …

Here I am again, in the bath, contemplating life and the reasons why I've missed a day or two of Hive. I suppose I'm only ~~Hiveian~~ human. ![IMG20250921103736.jpg](https://fi…

We are DIY royalty in our own minds. It helps when people validate our Queenness and Kingness by praising our ability to crack on with a job without procrastinating. How do you fin…

### Welcome to Week 27 of the Hive Garden Question! Last week's question asked us to reflect on our best gardening moment from the last season. It was a hard call as there's ofte…

For two weeks in a row, we have had no one look through the house for the Saturday afternoon inspections, despite tidying the place to look as beautiful as possible. It's a low poi…

As I utterly freak out about the building report that will be undertaken on the house on Thursday, which might mean us having to get an engineer's report from knocking out walls s…

If I was feeling more emotional, I would have certainly cried walking through the reserve that leads down to the river, a ten minute walk from our new place. I've been too busy to …

There's baskets of knitting, the green blanket and the blue one, one nearly done, one just begun. Scissors. Loaves of bread and anti inflammatories and sunglasses and hats. Oat mil…

As many of you know, I'm a huge fan of reloving old furniture, scouring marketplace for the 'free' or very cheap, which is often pine. I don't mind pine - it's strong, and I like i…

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### Welcome to Week 26 of the Hive Garden Question! Some great posts about soil this week and lots of good ideas. We hope you caught them all! This week the beneficiary prizes go…