Helen, Jeni, Amanda’s mum and Amanda at some of the road garden

Yesterday, Sunday 4 August, I went to look at a verge garden that Amanda Townsend and her family have built at Maroubra.  Beautiful and inspiring.

Then Amanda took us out the back of the house and I saw the funniest, most tender thing; a beautiful, so smart, black kelpie herding some chooks.  Both dog and chooks are on good terms.

It’s hard to photograph a black kelpie so the photos aren’t too good and they don’t show the kelpie’s tenderness, alertness and strategy for herding the chooks from A to B.

The funniest bit was when a couple of chooks got up on the trampoline and the kelpie followed them there to get them down.

Enjoy.