
In poets corner after seeing doctor for checkup – 2 weeks since operation, and almost…human again.
In poets corner after seeing doctor for checkup – 2 weeks since operation, and almost…human again.
Aaaaaaaah
cried “Wee! Wee! Wee!” all the way home.
Back home at last.
I suppose it would have been cheaper to buy the wine and cake….
Mastodon has a theme:
#The7FilmsToKnowMe
To which I contributed (https://mastodon.social/@OscarBeau):
The Princess Bride
Charade
The Big Lebowski
Groundhog Day
Singin’ in the Rain
Blowup
The Big Chill
I chose films which make me feel good to know they exist. I hug myself with glee when I think of them. Other lists of course are possible – favourite musicals, best 21st century, best drama, best romcom, or just numbers 8-14, 15-21 etc – and maybe I’ll do some of those as the mood takes me.
“Conservative” political parties in western countries all share ten fundamental features.
Surely some foxes are atheists?
From one of my childhood favourites, mentioned in my Memoir “Hammering on the mind’s door”.
… is prologue.
My book concerning fire in the Australian environment, extinction of the megafauna, and Indigenous interaction with the environment in general (and in total opposition to the works of Flannery, Pascoe and Gammage, among others), is available online. https://www.routledge.com/The-Pure-State-of-Nature-Sacred-cows-destructive-myths-and-the-environment/Horton/p/book/9781865081076
All my individual publications in this field (and others) are available free online at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Horton9
Also many of my older essays are still available here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/david-horton/28320
A wondrous apparition provided by magician
To say that Australian plants are adapted to fire (and flood, and storm, and landslide) is like saying that grass is adapted to lawnmowers.
Saturday, 7 December 2019 at 8:28 pm – view South from my window, horrific smoke from major bushfires in the mountains of southern NSW.