The late summer stonefruit are now declining in quality and increasing in price. There have been no mangoes for a long time..
I bought some naartjies and oranges today – they are likely to be my fruit staples for some months. I think farmers are going to battle with diminished and expensive fuel…
Damn! I didn’t want to go along that ugly road!
From 6 a.m. until 5 p.m. there is a shrieking hullabaloo of rainbow lorikeets in the big Golden Penda tree next door. They get drunk on the nectar from the bright yellow flowers then spend the day shrieking at each about how good life is!
5 p.m. must be Nature’s closing time as the noise ceases like it has been switched off! Until then it is a rowdy, unrestrained party. You may be unlucky enought to be pee’d upon as they fly shreiking from tree to tree.
They fly straight at you and only veer away at the last moment!
I love them! So quintessentialy Australian.
They are not alone: they have a midday siesta and that is the time that the noisy friar demonstrates his unusual squawking, creaking call which is so unmusical it makes one grin! Every now and then the resident noisy miner flock think they see a snake and they set up an enormous racket!
In early mornings there is also the maniacal cackle of the kookaburras and the crow choir practice, conducted succesively in all four corners of their patch.
When herself worked night shift she used to rush out and clash cymbals at the crows, who still generally avoid Bahr Palace.
Do other countries have birds that are actually called ‘noisy’? I know there are howler monkeys elsewhere…
Life goes on … just ignore the news and keep your head down and all the stuff over there will disappear….
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