The woman smiled cheerily at the people seated in front of her on rows of plastic chairs, and held up a cat. “Good coat for this time of year,” she said, ruffling its fur. “The tail’s a bit long for my liking.” I tried not to laugh. A woman in the [...]
* Sentence uttered by Prince Valiant, entirely without irony: “Awesome! Bananarama!”
* I am listening to an audio book of Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) and have a longing to acquire a small stubby legged dog and name it Montmorency. What a [...]
“Hello!” I said cheerily. “I’m just calling so that you can identify a frog for me. Hang on for a minute, I’m going to hold the phone out - listen for the one that sounds like, “pok! pok!” - sort of like someone chopping wood in the distance.”
Our population of frogs have been [...]
We watched the most amazing thunderstorm tear itself across the sky last night. It was like someone had installed a disco strobe light high up in the atmosphere - the entire sky flickered and lit up constantly with varying intensities of brightness, sometimes lancing a brilliantly clear fork of lightening before thunder deafened us [...]
I was a little lax with sunscreen application on the weekend, and various parts of me, including two big patches of skin on my knees, are now a lovely shade of pink. I have been slathering myself with moisturiser in an attempt to prevent peeling, but I’m not sure how successful that plan is [...]
My mother recently told me that the term flying fox is used by those who think of bats as pests, and so I’ve tried to follow her lead and call them fruit bats instead, despite calling them flying foxes for much of my youth.
Every year, colonies of spectacled fruit bats used to nest in trees [...]
It seems that Steve Irwin has died. I always found the man incredibly annoying, and couldn’t stand his documentaries, but he was an environmentalist in the public eye, and I’m sad that he’s dead. What a terrible thing for his wife and children.
We have a dead cat in our front garden.
It has no collar, and no-one has come to enquire about its whereabouts.
I’m not sure how it died. We found it flopped on the grass near the footpath, and thought perhaps it had been hit by a car, and someone had thrown it up onto the [...]
My mother went through a stage of poultry breeding while I was in high school. In addition to the chooks, which we kept for eggs and sentimental value, she bred runner ducks (because of a fondness for Leunig cartoons and the runner ducks which are scattered through them), and Chinese geese, an elegant breed with [...]
“Arggh!”
“What’s wrong?”
“There’s a CRAYFISH in the hallway! And it’s SNAPPING at me!”
It turns out that crayfish are quite the escape artists. One minute, the hall is empty, and I walk into the bedroom searching for my shoes. When I walk out, there the crayfish is, defending its new territory. It’s the [...]
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