Mark is still alive

Yes, after a few rough days of Flu, im back!!!

tongue twisters from today

Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said this butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my butter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So she bought a bit of better butter, better than her bitter butter. Twas Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

The big black bug bled black blood.

Seven principles for garden and landscape design

Hi All,

I just found this and thought it may be of use to others in the class.

Design, like most activities, has principles which can be ignored - at your peril.

1. "Consult the Genius of the Place' is the first law of landscape planning and design. She helps those who work on site, gets cross with those who deny her existence, and has some views on style. In areas of high landscape quality, whether urban or rural, she often prefers a conservation approach, which makes new development similar to its surroundings. In areas of low landscape quality, she usually prefers an innovative approach, which creates a contrast between new development and its surroundings.
2. Planners and designers should make places that are good from as many points of view as possible: social, functional, artistic, spiritual, economic, hydrological, ecological, climatological, and others too. Use can be combined with beauty, pleasure with profit, work with contemplation. The garden can be the planner's crucible. Do not allow the specialist to grab even one petal from the six-lobed flower of life.
3. Work with your clients. But remember that plans and designs have many clients with divergent interests: those who pay your fees; users; builders; the wider community; the natural world. Landscape planners and designers must look beyond the narrow technical limits and tight geographical boundaries that constrain most of the built environment professions.
4. Precede good design with good planning. To work otherwise is to design castles upon sand. Sometimes, good planning occurs by accident. More often, it takes longer than design.
5. Design space before mass. Buildings, trees, shrubs, walls and mounds are mere packaging. They contain space.
6. Use materials of only the best quality. They may be the cheapest materials. Water, grass and water-washed gravel, for example, are of the first quality. Precast concrete slabs are a third-rate material. Sometimes, however, money must be spent with generosity. At the end of a long career, Thomas Mawson reflected that clients always appreciate quality and soon forget expense. If you try to save them money, they forget what you have done and always resent the inferior quality.
7. Learn from the work of painters, sculptors, architects, poets, musicians, philosophers, novelists and others. These interests can come together in what Jellicoe has suggested may be the most comprehensive of the arts. The principles of art and design are wide and deep.
For the above principles, thanks are due to: Alexander Pope, Humphry Repton, Patrick Geddes, Paul Klee, Christopher Tunnard, Arnold Weddle, Siegfried Gideon and Geoffrey Jellicoe.

source: http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/design_methods/seven_principles_landscape_design

Darebin Tip

For those of your who were left wondering where the tip is and when it is open - as I was - here is the info in case you are wanting to head over there to score a few treasures like Kati.


Outlook Market
The Outlook Market is a shop run by Outlook Environmental which sells recycled goods. Items sold in the shop include:
Furniture
Timber
Bricks and building material
Clothes
Toys and Games
Tools
Collectables and bric-a-brac
Books
Household items

Location and Hours
Darebin Resource Recovery Centre Kurnai Avenue (off Henty Street), ReservoirMelway Map Reference: 18 C6Opening Hours8am to 3.30pm, 7 days a week (except Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, Good Friday and Anzac Day)

Build your own goat cart

Hi Ya'll!

When you are all permies living off the land somewhere, you may like to consider creating your own simple goat cart. You can race or just cruise around, or move things from place to place...

http://www.bundarra.com/How_to_build_a_goat_cart.pdf

Happy carting! :-)

more book information

hi again

i have just found this site also
it is cheaper & has a good selection of books you may find yourself looking for for your collections

http://www.booksandcollectibles.com.au/bsearch.php3?restrict2=157&type=ALL

Barossa Vintage Books SA

bye!

Great book for budding designers

Hi All,

I have just found a treasure on my best friend's bookshelf. It belongs to her partner who has been a landscape designer for years. The title is "Landscape Graphics - From concept sketch to presentation rendering" by Grant W. Reid (ASLA).

If you are interested in obtaining a copy, as I have just done (on order in the post!) you can find it on this great website Biblioz which is the best place to look for out of print books or hard to find items. The postage is expensive as many of the items have to come from OS.

http://www.biblioz.com/search.php

There is also these ones there that folks may like to check out:

• Color Drawing: A Marker/Colored-pencil Approach for Architects, Landscape... By: Michael E. Doyle
• Book ID: 2235007649 - (stocked in U.S.A.)
• Buy this book for AUD$11.40 (approx. USD$8.39)
• * Approx. Price incl. shipping: AUD$30.88 incl. GST (approx. USD$20.66) Delivered to: Australia
• Description: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. Used - Acceptable. Former Library book.1st. ACCEPTABLE with noticeable wear...

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Prairie Landscape Desgin Guide Author: Virginia Yakimovich-Parenteau Pbl: Border City Graphics, Lloydminster AB, 1990 Price: AUD$40.11 (approx. USD$29.53) ...Lloydminster AB: Border City Graphics, 1990. Original Wraps. As New/No Jacket. complete garden design kit- pages at the back include the graph paper and the cutouts of trees, perennials, etc to layout your garden pictorially. No names, no damage. Excellent value. " easy to use, very visual - one of the mso\\ost helpful guides I've come across" " adaptable to any home and yard. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall.
Other Information
Condition: As New Binding: paperback	Dust Jacket: No Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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FreeHand Graphics: For Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers: A Problem-Solving Approach Author: Sutherland, Martha Pbl: Design Press, 1991 Price: AUD$44.27 (approx. USD$32.59) ...Normal shelf wear to cover, corners and edges. No apparent markings throughout. Tightly bound. Grear reading copy! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Audience: General/trade. Good. No dust jacket as issued.
Other Information
Condition: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Binding: Trade paperback	ISBN: 9780830634804

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• Residential Landscapes: Graphics, Planning, and Design By: Pierceall, Gregory M
• Book ID: 2237743446 - (stocked in U.S.A.)
• Buy this book for AUD$46.03 (approx. USD$33.89)
• * Approx. Price incl. shipping: AUD$67.31 incl. GST (approx. USD$45.05) Delivered to: Australia
• Description: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Reston Pub Co, 1984 Clean, bright and tight. Minor shelfwear, primarily... more

Have a great weekend! See you tomorrow. Meggs

Still making compost

Compost making 13/05/09

Compost & Garden

Compost Making and garden planting at Swipers Gully today...

A Green New Deal for Victoria

you guys may be interested in checking out this new blog from Friends of the Earth

http://greennewdeal.wordpress.com/

waste NOT want NOT

i just went to the darebin tip,
its fucken ace man, serously, all this stuff people will chuck out.
me and my housemate spent 8 dollars (thats 4 each) and got

• 2 bags (one big backpack, one handbag)

• a wormfarm (not fully in tact, but the peices are use able)

• a silver cloud tree sapling. .is sapling hte right word?? baby tree?
• a suitcase that holds audio tapes(our stereo only plays tapes and radio..)
• a saucepan with pretty pictures on the outside
• a big porcelan bowl
• a giant magic eye painting WOOHOOOO trippy man
• like, 20 tapes, including, maddonna, aretha franklin, indigo girls, culture club, tracey chapman, roxette, jackson 5, lou reed, billy bragg, eurythmics, sinead o conner, tom waits
• lots of storage jars
• a little bin to use for compost
• a red leather purse
• an etcher sketcher thing to leave notes like EAT THE LEFTOVERS PLZ

andmore stuff. i cant be bothered, does anyone even read this blog anyway??
like, yeah. the point is, ALL this shit, ppl just threw in the bin, the fucken bin man, not even the op shop.
there was SO MUCH amazing building materials and garden stuff there, i was like amazed and excited, and i was looking at all these tins of rainbow paint and i met another person going thru them and it was a woman who runs the school garden at thornbury primary school.
its a really great garden there, i went there with meggs.
they use rope for there keyhole garden. so ace!!

anyway the point is, WASTE NOT WANT NOT----(produce no waste)
we can get almost everything from the rubbish bin!!!

xxxxxoxoxoxo

new Podcast's

New podcast at http://www.pdcastsusworldradio.libsyn.com/ with Warren Brush.
There is also other stuff about his work. http://www.permaculture.org.au/author/Warren%20Brush -I found it very inspiring!
Bela

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Reducing our energy consumption

Just seen an interesting programe-http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/05/01/2556373.htm
The Longnow foundation has other interesting speakers- like this-http://www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/04/17/2546038.htm
Dimitry Orlov on the collapse of the USA

Riparian Zone- Ninks Rd ,St Andrews

Hi, All.
Found the email i sent Virginia last week with all the notes.Possibly over 100 pages in 5-6 pdf 's
Tried to post to studywiz (maybe Virginia could do it -i re-sent the lot to her)Have tried again to night to post it to this blog-no success.I can post it to all of you inividually ,so you could include it in your reports.Please let me know your preference.
regards,Bela

Blog to watch

www.permaculture.org.au

check out this amazing permaculture collective from texas

http://www.rhizomecollective.org/node/7

sooo coool!!!!!!

xoxoxoxo