"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Friday, December 23, 2011
It's Christmas Eve in Australia
So you blokes and sheilas get your own special Christmas greetings from the Pacos!
Best wishes to the natives of my spiritual second home.
Update - Question: What's that little critter on the left side of the picture?
Bear in mind (haha that is a very sweet card, no I haven't opened the cognac yet) that it is midsummer here, with daylight saving, so Christmas Eve the sun doesn't set till after 8pm. Weird, no?
'Twas the night before Christmas, and for hours and hours, the birds are making a sunset cacophony, Especially the screeching cockatoos...'
Steve, Kae works at the Yooniversity. Be nice to her if you want to get an academic favour for a relative. She knows peopl, and famil. Connectio.
Paco, the idea that aborigines ate kangaroos and snakes is so fixed in people's heads that I can't persuade them how in forests they mostly ate possum (more abundant than any other food). Agile climbing trees with stone axe, break open possum nest in rotten branch, grab possum's leg/tail without getting scratched and whack him hard on the tree trunk - fast food for four!
Said to be sweet meat, 'cos possums live on nectar. Koalas live on Eucalyptus leaf, imagine how they taste.
Yes it is, and thanks.
ReplyDeleteVery Happy Christmas to you all too.
Bear in mind (haha that is a very sweet card, no I haven't opened the cognac yet) that it is midsummer here, with daylight saving, so Christmas Eve the sun doesn't set till after 8pm. Weird, no?
ReplyDelete'Twas the night before Christmas, and for hours and hours, the birds are making a sunset cacophony, Especially the screeching cockatoos...'
Hey, it's nearly 7pm here on Christmas eve.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow the trip to the Gold Coast and a day with the famil.
If I survive I'll be blogging tomorrow night.
Merry Christmas, Mr Paco!
famil
ReplyDelete?
I blame arthritis.
WV: coadder.
Baldrick.
Bruce it has been 38 here temperature is just starting to ease down, 8.p.m and still light.[Daylight saving in S.A.]
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas.
*arthritis eh, must remember that one.*
Hope you have a great Christmas Paco.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Paco and to your family.
ReplyDeleteRing Tailed Possum.
ReplyDeleteChristmas day here now, up early to start the roast, and no am not cooking the Possum. [Heh].
Merilyn: Where I come from, possum is one of the four main food groups.
ReplyDeleteYair, "arthritis" is saved into my file of handy excuses.
ReplyDelete"Famil" is trade jargon used in the travel agent industry.
Kae, is your cover blown?
Steve, Kae works at the Yooniversity. Be nice to her if you want to get an academic favour for a relative. She knows peopl, and famil. Connectio.
ReplyDeletePaco, the idea that aborigines ate kangaroos and snakes is so fixed in people's heads that I can't persuade them how in forests they mostly ate possum (more abundant than any other food). Agile climbing trees with stone axe, break open possum nest in rotten branch, grab possum's leg/tail without getting scratched and whack him hard on the tree trunk - fast food for four!
Said to be sweet meat, 'cos possums live on nectar. Koalas live on Eucalyptus leaf, imagine how they taste.
That's not a ring-tailed possum, the marsupial terror that drove Tim Blair from his own back yard one thread on his own site?
ReplyDeleteLooks more like an infant drop bear to me. Careful, Paco...
Richard,
ReplyDeleteAre you sure it isn't a juvenile Bunyip?