Saturday 7th May 2011

May Day Holiday started this week off pleasantly. Our morning began with a fruit salad breakfast - rough leaf pineapple and sweet banana. Not long after breakfast Kaye arrived and Helen, Kaye, Jo, Susan and I all enjoyed moving straight into morning tea with coffee and biscuits. Susan and I spent the rest of the day gardening. After watching our efforts with a borrowed mattock our neighbour John offered both his jack hammer and his strength to help us dig holes for planting out the pawpaws, ginger, tumeric and galangal. This was unexpectedly crucial as unbeknownst to us (but well known to all local Darwinians) the garden soil is solid with palm roots as well as being already Dry Season dry and salted with rocks. After planting in the ground, we potted a few seeds and seedlings and a Darwin lime tree, spread some mulch, watered plants, ground (and dogs) and felt a great sense of satisfaction. Kaye returned in the afternoon to accompany us all to dinner at the Wharf then stayed visiting with Helen while Susan and I went to our first movie at the re-opened Deckchair Cinema.