My back yard has self sown veggies. I throw the seeds on the garden patch with my day lilies for fertilizer. if the seed take a bonus if not who cares.

I do have a hive of native bees I rescued from the council mulcher about 4 years ago I go out there periodically and talk to them.
We have a 3 mtr above ground for fresh water turtles (Twonk and Key ring) two huge yabbies (Boris and Oscar [he's cranky]) and a pile of fish originally bought for the turtle live food but they couldn't care less.
There is a noisy friar bird who has decided my back yard is his territory and he chases away unwanted day time visitors. He leave the little birds but gets cranky at the butcher birds.

The fig bird (Capone) and the wattle bird do regular visits but do so when the friar bird is away and my side yard is a nursery for the magpie babies. At nigh a pair of local tawny frog mouths watch from the clothes line. The mega bats squabble in the neighbours palms. Late at night George and Mildred have domestics on our front grass (thick knees, stone curlews) In the trees at night Spooky visits (the local Boo-book owl).
Max the Green tree frog lives in the fernery) been there for about 3 years.
The compost pile has a pair of legless skinks about 11" long they look like small snakes.

Yep, our place has the lot and yes my 24 yo daughter has named them all.
I kew we shouldn't let her have a duck (Daddles) that thought it was a chook ( Chookins)and the chook that thought it was a mongoose. It killed 5 snakes while we were on the property.

Did I mention Shimisu our dopey Shihtzu that stalks up right sticks at the beach, pots in the back yard and the baby magpies but runs when they investigate her. When she runs at the beach she doesn't watch where shes going and goes apex over base if she his a pot hole.

This is a nice thread to read.

I look occasionally to see if there are any new names.

Foxy: <"All in all, however, I think this Forum is very moorish,
and I find myself coming back for more - again, and again.">

I really like the way the pages are set out and the format for submitting. Other message boards are a tedious drag in comparison.

Yahoo! used to have a fabulous board set up but took it all down after some sook litigated about getting flamed or summin. Now Yahoo! has replaced them with a very irritating set up that is too annoying to follow. Also, seems to be dominated by fairly silly talk; nothing amusing or thought engendering.

My only complaint relates to myself and that these boards provide the perfect method of procrastination for me when I should be working hard at something else.

CJ and others: I agree re: the backyard. We grow a few things but I am not a gardener. Thankfully the other half makes a good effort and we've had a bounty of nice tucker from a pretty small patch of ground.
We still have far too much lawn.

Come on new posters the water is great we are waiting for you as Lara said where the goodness gracious are you?
Examinator hope 64 and a bit is half way, the trip has been great.
CJM back yard is fruit and front veggies plus my mums garden flowers, well for the old girl she never lived here.
Chooks? well bantams soon me and the birds will soon stop sharing the fruit small chook pens are going around them.
Wish my mango had made it, winter and mango's do not like each other here.
Strangest thing fruit can be very dear here , My plums are the good ones and sell around $7 in peak, I give ten gallons of great fruit away, but have to travel because neighbors are living a life locked in each others arms but isolated from the community, now there is a thread starter.
OK so you insist on not posting? tell us why?
nice try what do you think?

QLD and WA are about to enter what has been described as 'the biggest resources boom ever'. Much larger than the previous one.

So, given the number of jobs this boom will provide for, and, the amount of revenue that governments will collect, how on earth do those who oppose coal fired power, or LNG expect to feed the masses if we switch to alternatives like solar or wind power.

Can our economy afford not to have coal-fired, or LNG power?

QLD, where I reside is broke! Now where would we be if we had not just been through the massive resources boom of late, which, besides providing thousands of jobs, also provided billions $ for our government to waste. Sorry, couldn't help it.

Where would the money have come from otherwise?

Where would the jobs have come from?

Be careful what you wish for, as the alternative, although being clean and able to provide you with that 'warm and fuzzy' feeling, may well spell the end for our economy.

Personally, I am quite happy with the way things are.

By all means let’s find an alternative, but not one that will cripple our economy.

Out there, just in the shadows are folk who read but do not post.
I can hear the rumble of their grumbling maybe at rechtub maybe at me,
But if you enjoy the forum ,feed it please.
Unlike my sparing partner rechtub I look for change.
Constant change that brings improvement.
And while I do not have enough years to see it we are going to get it.
Nuclear power, we are not getting five mile island or that Russian shanty town power.
We are getting, bank on it, Europe's brand new power only far too long after the rest of the world.
Goggle how many power stations in how many country's exist already.
Add value tell us your views please?

ok so we skidded to a stop, threads do.
The welcome to new posters is real, and from most who post here.
Good ideas for threads came from here too.
CJM and his grow your own, vegies I mean is a start.
Kick me, my ALP went badly over the weekend but be aware he who laughs last [after federal election] is happiest.
NRL, well do not get me started, no my team won, Saints you can call them Dragons, but ref won todays Parra Manly game dreadful problem, is some one making cash out of gambling on the game?
Or is it mandatory that lines men leave their seeing eye dogs in the shed and refs be rude self important fools who have no idea of the game?
Thanks contributors we did ok.