Ferrariae Keeping Me Busy

Those of you who know me will be wondering why I've taken to gardening.

I've not.

I'm only using pictures of various species belonging to the genus Ferraria as an illustration of what's been keeping me occupied this weekend.

By way of some background, plants from the Ferraria genus are related to the lily and iris and are common in South Africa. The pictures above show 3 different Ferraria species.

As you'll know, I've recently been away for about 2 weeks and when I got back, was quite ill with food-poisoning. My gran then dropped a bombshell from Oz about wanting to move. She lives in Oz for most of the year but gets away from the Australian winter for a few months every year to warmer climes. I'm her permanent house-sitter while she's away and that means me having to look for a new place for her. She's not wanting to move back from Oz for good. It's just that she's wanting to buy a new flat. She's only had the current flat for about 5 years but she thinks she needs a change.

Fortunately I'm now completely recovered from the food-poisoning and was able to go round looking at various new developments. I managed to shortlist a few after my rounds yesterday and today, I was given the go-ahead to sign on the dotted line to buy one of flats on the shortlist. It's in a new development (in the process of being built) called Ferraria Park (see the connection now?) and it's about a 10-minute drive from where I currently live. It's going to be bigger than the current flat but will still have 3 bedrooms although it will have an room which is meant to be a study. The new development will have 2 more swimming pools than where I currently live but will also have 2 tennis courts and a gym. The flat which I bought (under a power of attorney) faces the lap pool which will be the full 50 metres but will be narrowed to about 15 metres, instead of the usual 25 metre Olympic standard. It's past midnight and I'm too tired to scan an pictures of the plans for now. Pictures, etc will appear in a later edition of this post.

In the meantime, I'm still planning to post several entries to do with the following:

1. Richards LJ's flashing incident - did he do it and if he did, will there be a defrocking?
2. Pictorial feature of Utt and Nicholas Tse - J might like these
3. Lord Falconer's proposals to allow retire judiciary to return to practice - are the objections valid?
4. Male multiple orgasms - myth or reality - my personal experience - this has nothing to do with tantric sex, just good "technique"
5. Tomas & Petr
6. R - moving on and what happened after a previous encounter

This week will be another busy week at work. I've got a meeting with Shell (yes, the oil major) on Wednesday afternoon which I will have to do a lot of work for starting Monday. Social lunches which had been put off before I went away will have to be put off even further, till next week, possibly.