Spring, in this neck of the woods, is absolutely glorious. We are sitting on the balcony at the moment, the temperature is 24 degrees and there are Rainbow Lorikeets, Eastern Rosellas, Galahs and Corellas fluttering around. The koalas are peeping down out of the trees (well we can't see any from the balcony yet but they are only at the end of the road)  and Ella, in particular, is looking impossibly cute. Almost everything seems to be bursting into flower and we are taken by surprise by sudden wafts of scent as we are walking along with Monty. There is one house we pass where the garden smells really strongly of bubblegum but we can't see which plant in the garden is producing the scent, maybe the owners just chew a lot of bubblegum...
One thing I did not expect to see was this Blue Tongued Lizard appearing from under the house while I was painting the side balcony yesterday, it made me jump a bit because I thought it was a snake when I first saw his head poking out. He was about 18 inches long and just sauntered across the garden then under the fence to next door, it was lucky Monty didn't see him because the lizard was not moving very fast and I am sure Monty would have caught him.
We are now part way through our big solar install. The hot water is finished so plenty of long free hot showers now because, although we are pommies, we do shower more than once a week! We are just waiting for the solar power panels to be put in on Friday and, what with that and our free underground water for watering the garden, we will be paying for hardly any of it any more. We won't mention the cost of the installation and the pump for the watering, at least we won't be getting big monthly bills and it should all pay for itself within about four years.