Daisy Chains and Picnics

We usually have a barbecue on a Sunday evening for tea. We try to do something different but always end up with a chicken as everyone here eats chicken!!. Scott was saying the other day that he hadn't cooked on the kettle barbecue for such a long time so we decided to cook something on that.  I got a Marion Bay free range chicken on offer from Hill Street grocer so that was what was going to be cooked on the kettle barbecue. Ingredients 1 whole chicken, 1.5kg - 1.8kg 1/2 small orange, quartered 1/2 small onion, quartered 1/4 cup cranberry jelly 2 tbsp orange juice Method 1.  Light the charcoal, we use a charcoal chimney positioned over a naked flame. Leave for approx 30 - 40 minutes until the white ash has formed on the charcoal. They are ready to cook on when they turn almost orange/white in colour. 2.  Prepare kettle bbq for cooking the chicken, we used two wire racks to separate the coals to the side of the bbq so the drip tray could sit in the centre. Add 1 1/2 - 2 c...

I noticed that the cacti that was planted in with the succulents weren't growing as well as the ones that are planted in pots on their own so I wanted to replant them separately in the hope that they flourish like the others. Would you believe the cactus on the left was larger than the one on the right when we got them both at the same time! We were trying to work out where we could put them and decided at the edge of the pool decking against the back wall.  Where we planned to put them. We didn't want huge plant pots that would encroach on the deck space so we went in to Bunnings to see what they had, nothing caught my eye until I saw these vertical paver stones which I thought would make perfect planter boxes for the cacti.  They are $49 for a pack of 6 but we noticed some broken ones that had been placed on a shelf above the boxes, a member of staff happened to be passing so we asked him what they would be doing with the broken ones, he said that they would be marked down a...