Boards, birds and basil

It did occur to me that credit should be given where credit is due - my better half does all the crummy 'uncredited' slog so that 'young royalty' can have personalised name boards painted for them! 

From this............................................................

To this!    

 

Dankie my liefsteling!

 

 My incredibly talented sister has done 100 sketches in 100 days - Birds of prey (to be exact) and has put them up for auction to raise money (and of course awareness) for the work that they are doing with the rehabilitation of raptors.

 Do yourselves a favour and check out 'Radical Raptors' Plettenberg Bay; South Africa.
You can bid on stunning sketches like these ones and while you are there, (just in case you don't win the one you bid on) make a donation towards the fantastic work they are doing.

We are so proud to have three of these taking pride of place in our home.

 

So although we are in a 'rental' home - and the garden such as it is, is a jungle, there is a flower box just outside the sliding doors. The gourmet kitchen has shown a decided lack of fresh herbs for use in fragrant pots of winter fare, so the author has decided to try her hand at growing her own herbs - "how hard can it be?" Apart from a disaster with sweet basil, everything else is doing really well and has already provided flavour to many exotic and not-so-exotic dishes!

Could someone please tell me what it was that was so intent on destroying my sweet basil? (dusting it with bug repellant stuff helped not a jot!) I can't imagine that it should be grown indoors? or under netting?

 

Dis al!