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Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother,
Mother and Wife of German Descent
I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com
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AuntyUta 
I do like your elephant. The flowers are very pretty, and will brighten up your garden. Do the grass tiles let the rainwater through? I am very tempted to replace our grass with something that doesn’t need cutting! But the rainwater needs to soak away into the earth and not run off into the sewers.
Hello, Cat. We always like to look at this elephant. We’ve had it for quite some time. We hope these flowers are going to do all right once we plant them out. We assume the rainwater can get through the tiles. We cover with them only a small outside area where for a long time we had no more grass growing, just a dirty bit of floor. But it is the area behind our house where we like to sit at a table.
Great flowers Uta, we bought the same recently and they really are beautiful.
Damned if I can remember their name, was it violets ?
Cheers
Emu
I wasn’t sure, Ian, whether they’re called pansies. So I looked it up in Wikipedia and found this: The pansy is a group of large-flowered hybrid plants cultivated as garden flowers. Pansies are derived from viola species Viola tricolor hybridized with other viola species, these hybrids are referred to as Viola × wittrockiana. Wikipedia
It says in one description:
Pansies are hardy annuals whose flowers have “faces.” Yes, these flowers with ‘faces’ do look like our flowers. In Germany people call them “Stiefmütterchen”. My mum used to plant them in boxes on our balcony.
Cheers
Uta