Rowan, thanks for the letter -

Joy sent me some pics from Marysville, including one of blade & handle of a what had been a spade, & another of a round hole that had been a fence post. I seem to have deleted her email (oops), so I'm not sure who took them.   

Maybe they were Mary's pics as a chook & duck were in one pic, feeding amongst green shoots.

I remember pics posted by Valda of similar green shoots in her blackened garden in Sydney's Blue Mountains after fires there a few years back.

sandra