Good Morning 🙂

6 am.

It's minus 2.4, not far off the prediction.

The "Feels like", apparent temperature is a balmy minus 6.5.

 

I went back to bed. The world can cope without me for another couple of hours, ha ha.

 

 

The bird bath froze, predictably enough.

I have learnt that taking to the ice with a hammer is not a good idea, ha ha

The ice round the edge of the bird bath melts, leaving a floating sheet of ice.

Hitting the ice with a hammer displaces the water - roughly in a front of pants direction... ha ha.

There are subtler and easier ways of breaking ice, and I don't mean asking it if it comes here often, ha ha.

 

Canberra, it gets cold here.

That doesn't really work as a tourism slogan, does it?  Ha ha.

 

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It is 50 years this year since I moved to Canberra and I still remember that first winter like it was yesterday. Brrrr!!!

 

When I moved back to Sydney I had to ask if it was an abnormally hot winter....I was getting round in a t-shirt.

What's casting a shadow there, on the table...?

Specifically on that side of the table...?

It's not a shadow, it has an ear, ha ha.

The smallest member of the family has come in for breakfast.

 

He's doing well, it's only been a week or so since he decided that didn't need Mum anymore.

So she's disappeared off to have a well earned break, ha ha.

It's the same thing with Piano and Moreton.

The day that Piano decided that she's a big girl, now, Moreton heaved a sigh of relief and packed her bags for Club Med Possum, ha ha.

 

 

I headed out the back to put "breakfast" out, expecting that the old man bird with the curved beak would be there, waiting for me, doing his expectant dance, ha ha.

Not today.

Well, fair enough, he spent most of the day here.

I'm at the big table, fending off the wattlebirds and the currawongs - "Hurry up! Hurry up! Move out of the way!" - (that's them, not me), ha ha, and out of the blue he appears - not standing on ceremony, he lands on the bridge and heads straight for "His" spot .

That's where "His" food goes.

It's not that he won't eat in half a dozen other places, but he has "His" spot, ha ha.

It's a good thing that I put food there, beforehand, or by golly I would have received a frowning and a half, ha ha.

 

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