Oops!

One evening last week I stopped at friend's after work and didn't get home until after dark.

While I was taking my things out of the car later in the evening I noticed a pigeon stuck in the front grill of the bumper. Euwww. I pulled it's wing, but it was stuck. Thought "I'll take a photo of that and caption it "Oops!" to put on the blog.

Next morning, no bird. Just some wing feathers stuck to a bit of wing on the ground and some other feathers clumped and unclumped. Must've been a hungry critter... probably a local cat, but usually they find a spot to de-feather the bird as they eat it and you'll find all the feathers together. No sign of the site. I don't know what ate it. But it pinched my blogstory.

Bastard.

Today I'm going to lunch at a PG student's place. There will be a group of mostly PG students I think. Should be fun. And interesting food. She is from Malaysia and she visits me to have occasional five to ten minute English lessons. It's great, because we are both learning - sometimes she visits and we go on a hunt for words using the internet and I learn too! One day she was talking about food. She thought that lamb was goat, I suppose that's come from being told that lamb meat is like goat meat.

Poor woman, I'll have her speaking strine in no time - I've already got her practising the long, flat vowels of strine.

Malcolm Douglas dead!

Died in a car crash....

Malcolm Douglas, born in 1941, is known as a wildlife presenter and conservationist.



Update:
Should have put this up earlier. He was killed when his 4WD door pinned him against a tree, he was alone and suffered massive chest injuries.
Mother's comment was "I hope it was quick."

Seen on the way to work on Tuesday

Diggings

Some diggings from my yard....

These are from the front yard, I think they're bandicoots'.

These are from the backyard, no wonder Floyd's started barking at night with all these animals around!

Then there's these diggings....

However, I caught the culprit on camera.... smiling!

Update:
Now I wish I'd shelled out for the wireless video camera which I saw in Aldi the other week... I'd like to get some film of those bandicoot critters in the yard. I've seen them scampering around in the dark only once or twice.

Your mobile phone is killing gorillas and chimps in the Congo

I really, really dislike chimps and gorillas. I don't find them cute, or funny. I hated the chimps in any movie ever made with chimps, and Clyde, whatever he was. YUK.

There's a substance mined in the congo which is used in mobile phones, coltan, and we shouldn't be buying new mobile phones made from a new supply of coltan but recycling the coltan from old phones into the new phones. This from some Zoo ranger somewhere (maybe in the Congo, but she sounded Aussie and looked like she was wearing an Australia Zoo khaki uniform...).

What they neglect to say that this substance is used, from the looks of what I can see, in every modern electronic device we use. (no link, I'm not sending anyone to the sites, but you can google and read up... it's only been a problem since 2001, or before)

I guess we should just pack it all up and toss it away.

We won't need it when

a) we can not afford to buy power, and
b) there is no power

ponder...