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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Julie Cross,
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Common names are such a tangle, eh! Latin binomials are more reliable, although occasionally subject to change....
I'm pretty sure I've seen video of spurwings fighting with their spurs. Very strange!
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
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the Transit of Venus
Ian, you're stellar. :-D
I'm looking up the Sumner valley and it's like being inside a snow globe, the snow's falling so thickly. The hills are sugared and the pine trees fit for any cliched Christmas card.
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Julie Cross,
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lapwing plover
If they're anything like our spurwing plovers, they're shy, so you did well to snap them!
I used to often hear them fly over at night, making that distinctive cry, when I lived in Opawa. But I almost never saw them.
They're great at spotting new habitat if it opens up. When the land on the corner of Brougham and Colombo was cleared for a building project which fell through, there were depressions in the ground which filled with rainwater, and lots of sticky mud. A pair of spurwing plovers immediately moved in and acted like it was custom built. :-)
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
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That’s how we used to do it in the proofreaders’ room at The Press –
One of my sisters did that job for a while. There was one chap who used to often fall asleep, as it was his third job of the day.
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to Tom Beard,
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You say that like it’s a bad thing.
I thought somebody might say that. ;-)
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
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what sort of take-up would one expect if poly-relationships became legally sanctioned?
Everybody would be taking up with everybody! Nobody would get anything else done. ;-)
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to JacksonP,
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"Piffle", Jackson? Willing to bet nobody’s used that word since Bertie’s cruel Aunt Agatha. ;-)
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Hard News: Sub Mission, in reply to Emma Hart,
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In the meantime I content myself with my pro bono work.
Stop, stop, you people make me laugh so much it hurts.
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I know many of you will have already seen this, but if anyone else needs a LOL, this just in from Shelley Bridgeman:
Sex has become so respectable and acceptable that it’s a ubiquitous backdrop to our lives….When exactly did this shift occur -and can we attribute it to the internet which seems to wear the blame for most contemporary societal ills?
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
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Ian, you said it. :-)
complex roots of unity
And here's to the polymorphous universality of the internet with all its Virtual Love Relationships. PAS is a many-to-many connection that's as meaningful to me as most in my life. Love y'all. Sayin.