Paint dust
I’m hoping the painter has finally completed work at the lodge. Vacuuming 155 square metres (1680 square feet) of wooden floors is a pain in the arse. I think I need to hire a floor polisher now.
The garden zoo was busy today
I went outside and spotted a medium sized wallaby doing some lawn maintenance.
Garden Wallaby
I grabbed the camera and was just about to click the shutter release when it was spooked by a noise from the forest.
Garden Cassowary
Yet another cassowary in the garden. I’m going to miss these when we move back home.
Garden Cassowary
Cassowary having a dog-like shake of the feathers.
Garden Cassowary
And off. They don’t stay long because we don’t feed them. A fed cassowary is a dead cassowary.
Golden orb weaver spider
To give you some sense of scale this little lady is larger than my hand. Cute!
Golden Orb Weaver Spider
Golden Orb Weaver Spider
It’s probably a Nephila pilipes and also likely to be a juvenile female. You can read more about this baby on Wikipedia. There are nine male admirers sitting in her web and waiting for her to return. The males are probably 5% of the size of the female. Yes, they really are that small.
What have the Greeks ever done for us?
I was thinking today about Greece and the problems it faces. Should the European Union bail out Greece with large sums of money? No, the EU shouldn’t but the entire world should.
I can already hear the economists among my two readers saying that this is a bad thing. They may be correct. Argentina decided to simply default on their debts and seems to be doing just fine. I am not an economist so what do I know? Here’s what I do know:
The Parthenon. Credit: Wikipedia user Thermos
Python fans will recall the moment in The Life Of Brian when the question “What have the Romans ever done for us?” was asked. Just transpose Romans to Greeks and you’ll see where I’m going with this.
If you think about it for a moment, the world owes Greece a massive favour. Almost everything you see, do or touch today will owe something, somehow to Greece.
The Greeks gave us western civilisation, democracy, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, geometry and much, much more. These innovations affect everything. They may have stood on the shoulders of a few giants to do so but what we have today is largely thanks to Greece.
And while we’re at it, how about the United Kingdom returns the Elgin Marbles to where they belong. Every little helps.
Flappity flap
Shade sail that suffered in this morning's wind
Shade sail that suffered in this morning's wind
We had the first storm of the wet season last night – two weeks early – and the shade sail at the renter decided to let go of one corner this morning. I can’t see this lasting long in a real blow.
A 6m x 6m sail blowing around in a strong wind isn’t the safest thing to be around.
