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opmania · ‎03-10-2015

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean

And be nice

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out

Of the conversation

ecar3483 · ‎16-10-2018

Apparently it made the heady heights of 27 degrees, today...

And most of us barely noticed.... ha ha.

But someone did...

Someone young, for whom 27 degrees is bordering on a heatwave, ha ha.

I saw her poke her little head out of the possum house, very grateful for the conveniently placed water dish, and drink...

And drink... and drink... ha ha.

It's hot work being a little possum... ha ha.

Then there was the one legged cockatoo...

I saw him standing on the bridge, on his one leg, and thought it was a bit strange...

I don't think I've ever seen a cockatoo with only one leg.

He hopped, hop-hop-hop, over to the water dish and had a quick drink...

Then he hop-hop-hopped back along the bridge...

Well, I thought.... He seems to be coping pretty well, but I bet there's times when he'd like to have a second leg...

And then, the elusive second leg appeared from under his feathers, and was lowered gently to the bridge...

Cheeky little man, cheeky, cheeky little man... ha ha.

There goes my anecdote about an unusual cockatoo... he hasn't left me with a leg to stand on... Oh come on, I had to say it... ha ha.

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marwi_3023 · ‎17-10-2018

Ecar, your jokes are awful but I do like them.
I was very surprised to see the Echidna walking down the street towards me as I reversed my car out of the driveway.
Echidna's are relatively common here and I have seen them getting about but it was the first time on my property even though I see the little nose holes in parts of the garden especially this time of year where it's not soaking wet and the ground is still soft.
I have a resident possum too and I have seen it but mainly I here it's impersonation of a much larger animal as it runs across my roof

baybizz · ‎17-10-2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhWbo135Efc

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baybizz · ‎17-10-2018

Pasodoble Islas Canarias ~ Los Gofiones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7mDsROA5kc&t=17

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ecar3483 · ‎17-10-2018

There's a tree beside the house with a thin branch that reaches over to the roof...

The "tree half" of the branch is fairly sturdy, but the "house end" is thin, and flexible...

So the possums have worked out that the trick is to go half way along the branch and then leap the three or four feet necessary to reach the roof...

It must've been one of those times when I've been out that they've managed to get into the house, armed with notebooks, pencils and tape measures...

They've done their calculations, inside and out, and determined the optimum point on which to land on the roof...

Just there...

Right above the bedroom...

Right above where I'm sleeping... ha ha.

Now, in the darkness, we watch the windows...

When the lights go out we'll give him about half an hour to drop off...

And then we'll drop in... ha ha.

I'm drifting off into blissful slumber, and then there's an almighty thump on the roof....

And if you're really lucky, someone's chasing someone else, so there'll be two almighty thumps... and the thunder of "little" feet across the roof, to accompany it... ha ha.

I had thought about having the roof sealant painted, but I'd want the paint to dry within the day...

It's not that little wet paint footprints on the pergola roof would worry me, unduly, it's the little wet paint footprints on the car that might be harder to explain... ha ha.

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ecar3483 · ‎17-10-2018

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ecar3483 · ‎17-10-2018

What I say and what the possum hears...

I said - "These were going cheap at the supermarket so I thought I'd try them out... I'll give you four, just to see what you think, and then I'll have the rest...".

They heard - "I got these for you...", ha ha...

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marwi_3023 · ‎17-10-2018

I have a little vision of an Eagle being harassed by a Magpie.
If you listen out right at the beginning you can here another Magpie egging him on from the safety of a tree
https://youtu.be/_ziy-ODVMfI