..save me from your Mansions in the Sky! Early this morning I had to watch a group of Yellow Throat Miners tear apart a Grey Crowned Babbler… terrible things to have to watch. Yesterday evening I’d noticed a lone Grey Crown skipping through a tree beside my camp. They are rare and they are rarely alone. He was mewing plaintively, there were other Grey Crowns about but they appear to have excluded him. The birds are pairing now so males…
A new website! U Can Talk.. RUOK? Apparently these socially uplifting sort of sites do us a world of good. A world of good? My arse. Why is it that these social uplifters always want to link suicide to mental health? If we Can Talk, then its time to broaden the whole topic and for the uplifters to realise that for some, suicide is a Right of Life. For some of us, regardless wether you think we are deranged, our…
Ah, poor Barney the Dunce now he’s all up in arms because of a hint, a whiff that his self-reporting of ‘travel expenses’ could be a bit iffy. A bit! Well, he’s claimed $16k expenses for him and his girlfriend. $16k ‘travel expenses’ for him and his girlfriend.. at our expense, but for our own good and most definitely in our, Australia’s, interest – he says. Self reporting. An employee of the people is allowed to do that. The people…