This is what happens if you ignore a weed growing on your lawn for a while. It grew to over four metres and had thorns all along the stem. In an effort to convince me that I should remove it, my wife found out that it is a Giant Devil’s Fig, which is classified as a “Noxious weed” in Brisbane. After much nagging, I chopped it down before the native bats could eat its fruit and spread it further.
And yes, my lawnmower is missing a front wheel…
Big dust storm in Brisbane today. Some reports have visibility down to 200m, but all I know is the CBD is no longer visible from my work, which normally only happens during the worst thunderstorms. Being inside does not stop the dust annoying your throat and eyes…
Not as exciting as in Sydney where the dust in combination with sunrise caused everything to turn red and Mars like.
Photo source: Brisbane Times
This is why I had a bit of trouble getting home from work last night. My office and car was on one side of this flooding (about 300m in the photographer’s direction) and my house is very inconveniently on the other side…
Photo source: The Australian
