Picking rosemary from my verandah for a lentil dish* I'm cooking, I suddenly remembered Riley, Ace of Goats, and how much he would have enjoyed my
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A week ago I pulled out the broccoli in my vegetable garden, because it was looking pretty miserable & was being eaten by invisible caterpillars. I had broccoli planted in the two big green pots, together with silver beet, which the kurrawongs demolished within a week of planting them.

I've had a fairly shonky but reasonably effective netting ( Read more... )

(and apparently penguins!)

It's (Gay & Lesbian) Mardi Gras time in Sydney, and one of my favourite animal behaviour researchers (he of the sex toys for female koalas) released the news to the world today of lesbian orgies among female koalas Where else but sleazy old Sydney ( Read more... )