The Gardener's Cottage

04/09/2026

https://www.thegardenerscottage.online/2026/09/04/the-yellow-peril-arrives/

It’s that seasonal time of the year of the yellowing. The Silver Wattle and Blackwood are flowering and depositing pollen everywhere. Not to mention the daffodils, jonquils and forsythia as the early burst of spring yellows complementing the snowdrops and hellebores. The beginning of spring herald...

06/08/2026

https://www.thegardenerscottage.online/2026/08/06/peking-over-the-plants/

Gazebo in Progress at great risk to OHSM. Or is it WHSM? Ah Soh! We have been assured by the Chief Bellringer of Anarchic Indocrinations that No Ah Soh, Ah Soh's constipated brother, was not a slave on this fabrication. As such the current tariff on exports from the State of Rebellion to USA are

04/06/2026

Google declares Mara Creek is a tourist attraction!
https://www.thegardenerscottage.online/2026/06/04/1261/
I can't wait for the flood of sightsee-errs

18/05/2026

https://www.thegardenerscottage.online/2026/05/18/the-revenge-of-the-post/

21/04/2026

Finally, after two months, Australia Post will mark where I am supposed to put a letterbox. Or will they?

Australia Post threw down the gauntlet and announced a meeting which they insisted was arranged for 12:00pm. A meeting to discuss letterbox placements. Not to assess the delivery to Warrentinna Road. Not to address the Branxholm Issue. It was as clear as mud. Sophie from Launceston may or may not ha...

15/04/2026

Curiouser . . . and curiouser . . .
We live in hope . . . We die in disappointment

The Mystery of the debacle plunged further into the murky depths when there was a call from an unknown number. Probably more of the usual spam it was ignored, but they left a voice message. The message was retrieved with the anticipation of the sound of someone hanging up or the discordant ching cho...

09/04/2026

https://www.thegardenerscottage.online/2026/04/09/posting-a-clarification/

After the Easter weekend, true to form Australia Post counter proposed meeting times. The same unsuitable time on different days, designed to create another irrelevant back and forth commenced via the intermediary Contact Centre without knowing whom the meeting would be with or what was on their age...

06/04/2026

https://www.thegardenerscottage.online/2026/04/06/the-tentacles-tentatively-extend/

Finally, the official refusal was provided by Australia Post. Rather than answer questions, the pretext was that Australia Post had corrected unspecified problems with internal management had been addressed and so the new delivery regimen was perfectly clear. The rejection of the request allowed a c...

29/03/2026

blind, deaf and dumb

As the performance of Australia Post to date was lacking the urgency necessary to address the threat of the Stoke Street mail boxes disappearing in a puff of insanity, e-missiles were fired at the responsible ministers. To ensure total transparency of accountability the responsibility for Australia....

19/03/2026

Another Surprise Delivery by Australia Post