You can\’t garden in the country unless you can keep snakes out. That means wrapping all the fences and gates in snake wire, blocking off every cranny and nook. And it works, angry snakes patrolling outside the fence, spitting angrily. Unless. Ah, unless a snake gets in through a gate left open accidentally as a […]
Used to know a chap who worked on snakes (a technical officer in a zoology department). When he began he used to boast how he wasn\’t concerned about big venomous snakes, had been bitten a few times, no problem, we were all wusses to be scared of browns, tigers, blacks, taipans, adders. But after he
Half way through Summer. Thank goodness. Half way towards no more heat and bushfires and snakes. Usually I\’m a glass half empty kind of guy. But when it comes to Summer, and the middle of January, the glass is certainly half full.
A pet hate of mine is the use of the term \”He/she passed\” meaning they died. It began, I guess, as a euphemism – \”passed away\” being a more gentle way of saying \”died\”. It gave a mental image of someone gently leaving life this Earth, having, in the Victorian term, a \”good death\”. But
The problem with renting DVDs from a mail order company is that they all come with damage. The damage – scratches, dirt, scrapes, bangs, magnetic – is often deliberate. It causes the film to \”skip\” so that you miss several minutes of the story, rejoining it at a later spot, trying to work out where
