Funnily enough, potatoes are the one vegetable where there seems to be dozens of varieties, inlcuding the "Mondy" that we discovered at Apollo Bay (just browse through my recent posts for that one). My ancestors were Orchardists and my Great Grandfather developed a few varieties of peach including the "Anzac" and "Zerbe" (Zerbe being the family name).

I spent the first nine years of my life in the country and most of my uncles were farmers so I got to see a lot of farms. The smell of cow manure immeadiately makes me think of milking sheds, while a magpie's warble or a crow's "faaark" makes me think of deserted country roads with sheep in the paddocks. Crows and sheep also go together in my mind ever since the time I was told about the crows trying to peck the eyes out of the new lambs.