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Just love it when my orchids flower. Especially since I'm really bad at caring for them, they mostly have to make do on their own. Occasionally I remember to water the poor things, and about once a year I might remember to liquid feed them. Still they are very loyal and continue to flower. This year my favorite is "Tetleys Little Fireball". A lovely red which had 6 flower spikes on it with 18 to 21 flowers per spike. I was really impressed with this effort. I wonder how many spikes and how many flowers per spike it would have if I gave it some attention? Perhaps it prefers to be ignored. Anyway, it looking good, so I've cut the spikes and brought them inside to enjoy them. Orchids make great cut flowers as they last for ages. My other orchid to flower this year was "Chocolate Brown". It's the first pic. My yellow hasn't any flower spikes this year and my green one has one flower spike, but hasn't opened as yet. It always seems to be the last one ...

Flew to beautiful Brisbane for my nephew's wedding on Saturday 30th October 2010. The wedding and reception were held at Bretts Wharf. What a beautiful setting. The wedding was at 3.30pm in the lovely garden setting on the wharf, then the guests lingered and had nibbles and drinks whilst the bridal party went off for photos. When they arrived back more drinks and food flowed for the rest of the evening. There was no formal sit down dinner, just platters of food brought out continuously all night. There were breaks for speeches, cake cutting, some fun guessing games for the bride and groom, the traditional garter toss etc. During the evening when a gong would sound, everyone would head out (or turn around) to the lawn area where we were entertained by a flame thrower!! Spectacular, a very talented and no doubt hairless gentleman!! To say he was very good would be an understatement. All in all, it was a beautiful setting, a gorgeous wedding party, a r...