Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Julie Cross,
It's a Tawny Frogmouth
Fabulous pic, just wonderful. Sorry to hear about your tragic incident though.
Tawny frogmouths seem to get around in pairs. I remember how two turned up at a New Year's Eve celebration in Greenwich on Sydney's North Shore in the late 90s and set up their booming from a tree in the backyard. Unearthly sound, they kept it up for ages.Saw a pair once in the bush on Cremorne Point, on the Harbour. It was just before dark, they lay flat along a branch, beak to tail, trusting their camouflage. So close you could have reached out and touched them.
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Ian:
I will not be at any of these events, this ain't over yet...
Hebe:
I don't need manufactured and scripted "closure". I'll do my own, when I'm ready.
Right on. A pox upon the wretched events management culture that fails to recognise what it can't control. Wouldn't surprise me if "Pop-up Commemoration" was kicked around the table before being reluctantly canned.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Hebe,
Yum. Slurp. Thud.
Yeah well, the botox cornetto.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Islander,
Islander, Graham Pizzey's A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia is one I absolutely love. Despite being Australian there are enough species in common, migrants, stragglers and imported aliens to make it really useful, but it's the sheer labour of love quality that won me. And those marvellous factoids, like the regional accents of magpies.
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From the Press comments, this has to take the cake for utter unalloyed dopiness:
Brad #1 12:11 pm Feb 04 2012
The silent majority support Bob Parker here in Christchurch. He is visionary, positive and gets the job done. A group of 3000 protestors rounded together by the local Labour party groupies doesnt truely represent local opinion. Thank goodness we have Mayor Parker as opposed to Jim Anderton who would clash with the minister Brownlee and the Government. Nothing would get done! -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sacha,
Chch Council asset sales on the agenda. Knock me down with a feather.
Eugenie Sage notes a pattern.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Julie Cross,
Maybe common swift which migrates from India.
Got to be a welcome swallow, as swifts don't perch like passerine birds, their legs are too short (Disclaimer: I'm not an ornithologist, just fascinated by der tweeties).
Swifts and swallows are supposed to be a classic example of convergent evolution, as they belong to completely different bird families.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sacha,
Apparently not.
According to the article Hebe linked to above, a total of 13,935 votes were cast in the by-election for Burwood-Pegasus, way down on the 2010 figures. -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Brownlee really can't help himself
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sacha,
It is at least “answering” the question, unlike last term where you’ll recall Brownlee got away with refusing to do so.
Said Simple Simon to the Pieman "What have you got there?"
"Pies, c*nt."
