the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

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 

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Yesterday, just as dusk started to settle, long after the birds had gone home I heard someone singing...

A soft, gentle voice, singing a short song, perhaps six or eight notes long that repeated itself, again and again...

But not a human voice...

Ooh... Mysterious... ha ha...

It turned out it was Mother possum, and my guess is that she was coaxing her youngster back into the pouch ahead of their nightly wanderings...

I've heard similar, in the past, but the youngster was much older and was, frankly, being a pain...

The song, for want of a better word, sounded more like a distraught adult telling a child to get a move on, "Or I'm going to change the WiFi password..." ha ha...

This was, to some extent, like a lullaby... "Get in the pouch, go to sleep, Mummy has to go and find things to eat..."... ha ha...

 

I suppose if I'm going to mention pouch tantrums, I should throw in probably the best of them all...

This is going back a while, but thinking about it still makes me smile...

The little possum had been out of the pouch for a couple of days, and was fairly comfortable and fairly confident riding on Mum's back.

Mum stopped on a broad piece of the bridge and sat down...

The little possum made a couple of attempts at climbing off... and back onto Mum, ha ha...

On one attempt the little possum confidently climbed onto Mum, got a good grip on her fur, and then looked genuinely startled...

Where's Mum's head gone? It should be here, in front of me...

Let's see how long it takes for the little possum to work out that it's facing the wrong way... ha ha...

"Well, if the world is going to be that mean and cruel to a poor little possum, then there's only one course of action left" -

So the little possum climbed off Mum's back, walked around beside her, and pushed it's head into her belly, just in front of her back leg...

Today is brought to you, little possum, by the word "Disappointment"... ha ha.

"No"... her Mother said... in that End of story tone... ha ha...

There was, of course, the requisite "Oh, but...", and several more attempts at playing bulldozer, but Mum didn't budge... ha ha.

After about ten seconds of sulking, the little possum climbed back up onto Mum, the right way round this time, clung on tightly and glared at anyone, everyone, it didn't matter who... "You're all in this together and I'm just a poor little possum, and you're all big meanies..."... ha ha.

 

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The shy, and progressively not so shy old man bird flew off with the flock when they left in the late afternoon, a couple of days ago.

That was a break from his usual routine - he'd stay until everyone had gone and then forage about in whatever was left over...

What a surprise! Someone seems to have overlooked this pile of sunflower kernels (his favourite)... and this pile... and this pile as well! ha ha...

With the sun fading fast, he'd waddle over  to the trees out the front and settle in for the night...

It was an arrangement that he seemed pretty happy with... ha ha.

And then, a couple of days back, off he went...

And he didn't come in the next day...

And he hasn't been in, so far, today, but that might change...

The pair of old man birds who lived here for a month did something similar...

One day they went to be with their people...

Which is, I suspect, what has happened this time...

I'd grown used to having him around.

He might come back, he might not...

Either way, he'll be okay, ha ha.

 

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Have I got something stuck in my teeth?

 

Ha ha...

 

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Evening Ecar.

 

Talk about ' walk this way '. lol

 

 

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"That's blatant sexism, that is", I observed...

"Look at the way it's holding the women's movement back", I continued...

Then I sat back and waited for the inevitable groans... ha ha.

 

 

And on a completely unrelated note...

 

How do people who went to posh schools greet each other?

(You'll have to say this quickly...)

Air

Hair

Lair

 

 

Ha ha....

 

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Polly Wants a cracker... NOW!  

 

It weighed in at 7 kilo, and stood some 3 feet, waist height, tall... and I think I find it challenging with the single kilo, ankle height version... ha ha.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-07/fossils-of-giant-parrot-heracles-found-in-new-zealand...

 

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