These are Not mozzie bites. They are urushiol-contact thingies from fresh-shed mango-flowers. Resulting from me disporting gaily under the beautiful golden blooms, taking pictures which I can't do anything about now because the rashes are now itching so much I can't think !
Will be back after they heal to the point where they don't itch ...
I just saved a minute spider, less than 1 centimetre from foot-tip to opposite foot-tip from a watery death ! I wouldn't have seen it if the wash-basin hadn't been white porcelain !! I could have turned on the tap Oh My God !!! *Hyperventilating still*In other news
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Always, in spring and summer and a good bit into the monsoon, I am awakened (sometimes at an insane hour - like just around 3:30 AM or so) by the Magpie Robin and the Koel
This is not only Johann Hari's opinions/thoughts/knowledge. Those words are about matters I know about reasonably well. Those words are also what I think, and I believe what I think is important. Even if only to me.
I find it very interesting that Charles Darwin's birthday, 12 February, and Valentine's Day, 14 February, are so close. It must mean something in the great cosmic scheme of things ... Charlie was a nice guy
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