There was a bit of excitement at my place this morning.
The State Library of Queensland asked permission to archive my blog in the National Library of Australia as part of the PANDORA initiative to preserve our online documentary heritage.
PANDORA, Australia’s Web Archive, is a growing collection of Australian online publications, established initially by the National Library of Australia in 1996, and now built in collaboration with nine other Australian libraries and cultural collecting organisations.
I still can’t believe my little blog is going to make it to the National Archives.
To celebrate, my dear friend Wendy who is staying with me for a few days took me out to our local (rather smart) florist and treated me to these lovely fresh flowers.
Altogether it turned out to be a very special morning. Not quite what I was expecting when I woke up today.
Allotment Adventures with Jean 
Jul 27, 2012 @ 22:54:40
What a nice compliment to you! You should be proud.
Jul 29, 2012 @ 16:59:12
Thank you Heidi for your kind words. The invitation came as a great surprise, but I’m delighted. It has taken me a couple of days to reply as I have been having issues with my internet connection, but it’s all fixed now. Best wishes. Jean.
Jul 27, 2012 @ 23:59:35
Congratulations Jean your Blog definitely is worth it.
Jul 29, 2012 @ 17:01:08
Dear Beth, Thanks for your kind words. As I said to Heidi it has taken me a couple of days to reply because of internet problems. But all fixed now. I had a great morning today over at the Morningside Fair which Di has been working on for months. It was a great success. Fortunately the weather was wonderful, sunny and DRY!
Jul 28, 2012 @ 06:47:35
Congratulations Jean! I’m so proud that I get to be a reader and ‘blog friend’ of your amazing blog that it’s being made into a piece of Australian History 🙂 Enjoy your day, I imagine you’ll wear a smile for a while 🙂 Regards, Ruth xxx
Jul 29, 2012 @ 17:09:41
Dear Ruth, thank you for your kind words. It was a bit of a thrill when I received the invitation to be in the National archives. Does that make me a “National Treasure”? I say that tongue in cheek. But I am thrilled of course. I do enjoy checking out your blog, and it’s so lovely to get your comments on mine. Best wishes. Jean. xx
P.S. Since I started my blog, and reading other friends’ blogs I have been using up my KBytes (is that what they call it?) within a week when it should last a month. But I’ve fixed it today and now I can use 50 KBytes a month. I might never get off the computer!!
Jul 29, 2012 @ 17:15:53
Hi Ruth. Me again. I meant gigabytes. I am trying to be at the sharp end of technology to impress my children – but sometimes I get my bytes mixed up !!!
Jul 28, 2012 @ 11:22:10
congratulations! i really enjoy reading about your adventures too 🙂
Jul 29, 2012 @ 18:04:23
Dear Elizabeth. Thank you for visiting and for your kind words. I checked out your blog and the last post I could find was in May.
Do you have a new blog, or are you just resting for a while? Best wishes. Jean.
Jul 28, 2012 @ 18:33:07
Wow that is such fantastic news! Congratulations on that and having such a wonderful blog that I’m not surprised has had this honour x
Jul 29, 2012 @ 17:13:11
Thank you so much for your congratulations. Not sure how they make the decision about which blog to feature, I suppose the present movement towards growing your own food could be something they want to register in the archives. Either way, I’m thrilled they chose mine. Best wishes. Jean x
Jul 29, 2012 @ 20:56:32
I’m thrilled for you 😀
Jul 29, 2012 @ 18:16:58
A most well deserved honour Jean 🙂 you most certainly deserve the kudos as I get no end of valuable information from your site 🙂
Jul 30, 2012 @ 07:34:09
Thank you for your congratulations Fran. Best wishes from Jean.
Jul 30, 2012 @ 17:52:02
I am very proud of you and your efforts and can’t wait to read your posts each time you post. I told the Polytechnic lecturers about your amazing compost tumblers and I think that the handyman is trying to work out a way to make them lol 🙂 You are a font of knowledge for us 🙂
Jul 30, 2012 @ 14:27:11
How wonderful Jean!! So pleased for you…it must have been such a lovely suprise!!And so well deserved!!
Jul 31, 2012 @ 06:09:31
Hello Jode. Thanks for visiting and for your kind words. It was a surprise. A lovely one.