Posts by Islander
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Chris Waugh,
weather permitting.
*very* wet here (and this is the Wet Coast!) so I'll just gaze upon that truly luscious looking mooncake instead!~ ka mihi koa ki a koe me to whanau katoa- cheers Islander
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Islander,
O, and what strange wee biceps...
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Arrrgh! The brightness! Never again the 3rd bottle of wine...
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom: Questions and Answers, in reply to Sacha,
GOODNESS!
I really should watch more televsion! Seriously!
This crap has been out there - snd no official thingie has done ANYTHING!
Fukx o dear -readies comment blowtorch and heavyduty sarcasm armoury- GOoooo! -
The colours, the colours! The bedazzling mindrazzling colours! Spinning even!
Thank you all-
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Islander,
O, and parry/s has a rather specific meaning in English, whereas pari/
paris doesnt. -
Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to ChrisW,
Sorry!
My sense of humour is…deficient. I am apt to take anything to with birds as A Serious Matter Indeed-
I like dice ducks…and yep, like the males, female paris will do face to face combat- mainly a beak-trusting match rather than the males’ extraordinary chest-whacking bouts (which you can hear from quite a distance.) -
Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom: Questions and Answers, in reply to DexterX,
Key is an embarrasment – eventually he may be forced to resign
Sooner rather than later is my fervent hope- which, given the numbers, could result in a very interesting situation…
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As my Big O home is on the market (no agents thank you, and it's all low-key) I've been looking at my bookshelves...
I have lotsnlotsnlots of bookshelves & 27000 plus - books.I never thought I could bear to part with any of them but -now- I'm looking...
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to ChrisW,
Obviously a shelduck and closely related to our paradise shelducks (putakitakiatama/atoa). They are a big noisy highly territorial species and it seems to be a characteristic that the female is more beautifully coloured than the male...both of them sit on the eggs and both of them fly *very* fast. There's quite a few breeding pairs round Big O, and we have "SLOW DOWN! Ducklings!" signs we put up at need- because they will wander around the place, rightly reguarding it as their own.
(One of the sadder bird experiences in my life related to Dr L: she had raised a pari chick to adulthood. It was a female. It knew her house of raising. About 18 months later, I saw this pari leading a parade of about 12 pari chicks down a Big O sideroad- with a clearly anxious male backing the parade...Dr L was no longer in residence. Over the weeks, we saw the 12 chicks whittled down to 2, and the mum had obviously given up on going back to the house...there was nothing we could do to help.)