the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

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]

I thought I'd do a quick search on cats visiting, or staying with graves...

Did  I say quick?

It turns out that it's more common than I thought.

I've heard of dogs waiting at gravesides but never cats.

I'll chalk that one up as the new thing that I've learnt today, ha ha.

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[ecar3483]

We've got a new torch! the catalogue tells me...

It has a rotating head, and four lights.

White, for the obvious, Red for "saving your night vision", Green for map reading (So that's what the green lens cover was for, on that torch... After all these years I finally find out, ha ha), and Blue, which is apparently for "liquid recognition"...

Liquid recognition?

Do they think I can't tell the difference between a gin and tonic, and a lemonade, in the darK? ha ha.

Just as a hint, the little umbrella always gives it away... ha ha.

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[ecar3483]

The crow turns up, picks up some bread and drops it in the bird bath....

He looks over at me and says "Do you ever feel self conscious wearing pants?".

"I'd feel self conscious if I wore pants", he said... "But then, that's because I'd suffer from an embarrassment of britches...".

He didn't need to laugh, I could see the twinkle in his eye... ha ha.

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[ecar3483]

ELO's Telephone line.

I don't go to the supermarket for the range, the prices, the convenience...

I go because they play "old" music, ha ha.

:).

[ecar3483]

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[ecar3483]

I was down the local oval with a mate, and I had a tin cup with me.

He said "When you're finished with that, can I have it?"...

I emptied it on the ground and said "Here you go", handing it to him...

He kicked it right between the upright posts as if it was the winning goal of the Grand Final...

I said I'd never seen anything like that, it was amazing.

I went on to say that with a skill like that, he could make a few dollars - people would place odds on his accuracy.

He said it seemed like too much bother - anyway, he didn't want to get a reputation amongst the bookies as a mug punter.

Ha ha.

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[imastawka]

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[ecar3483]

I pulled up in the driveway, opened the door and...

I won't be getting out of the car just yet because Mother magpie is standing there, where I would put my feet, if I got out of the car... looking up at me, adoringly... ha ha.

"Can I get out of the car?".

"Not yet, I haven't finished looking adoringly at you, yet...., ha ha".

"Okay... Would you like bread or pasta, both of which are inside, which means I have to get out of the car...".

"Aah... Surprise me... And by that I don't mean saying Boo!, because you did that last time, and it was really annoying...".

She knows me too well... ha ha.

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[ecar3483]

The old man bird with the busted leg's down at "his" end of the bridge, having something to eat.

He likes to stay late because then there's no one around to bother him, ha ha.

Takeaway, sitting in the house doorway, at the other end of the bridge isn't really a bother, after all she's too busy with her morning wakeup routine - staring into space, sniffing the breeze, completely ignoring the cockatoo... ha ha.

There's something missing from this equation, isn't there?

Ah, that's right...

An enthusiastic little possum called Zoo...

Who climbs round from behind Mum, and gallops, gleefully, towards breakfast...!

The old man cockatoo took that as an old man cockatoo, in the fading light of the day, would...

He took off, yelling indignantly about it, ha ha.

Meanwhile Zoo made a point of crouching in the corner, while looking at me with her extra wide eyes... "I didn't do anything bad, did I? I'm far too cute to do anything bad..."... ha ha.

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