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Feb

Help! We are under siege.

   Posted by: Past Contributers   in General, Light Hearted

It’s Saturday morning and the natives resumed their relentless attempts to take over our place.
They are wild, uncivilized, ferocious and dangerous.

Take this guy, who thinks that the balcony was built to become his private dining room.

Turkey

Where’s me food!

Or this lady, who thinks it’s her right to transform our spa storage compartment into her bedroom.

Sleepy Possum

I’m tired and sleepy. Leave me alone!

And you thought that fighting for freedom against the joined forced of fascist, communists and Islamists was tough.

Well, think again!

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24 comments so far

Patrick
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Beautiful pictures Felis. You certainly live in a wonderful looking place. Just one question though, Why do you invite Phillip Adams round to share a meal on your balcony?
:twisted:

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February 12th, 2005 at 12:26 pm
Patrick
 2 

*after thought*
Is that a ladder in the background of the first pic? Are you painting you poor unfortunate?

*Paddy hates painting*

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February 12th, 2005 at 12:31 pm
Scott
 3 

Careful, the RAC or the Socialist Allaince Group will be on your doorstep waving plackards and calling for a Senate Inquiry or Royal Commission into your treatment of the intruders Felis.

Great pictures, don’t be shy in posting more.

I remember driving to work one morning and thought that a mess of grey round things on the road were rocks for a retaining wall. Imagine my surprise when I got closer and found that they were guinea fowl.

It’s a bloody menagerie out my way.

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February 12th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Felis
 4 

“Is that a ladder in the background of the first pic? Are you painting you poor unfortunate?”

Thanks Paddy for all your empathy.
I sure could do with some TLC.
I get none from me missus when it comes to the “light domestic duties” (read – back breaking, brain damaging hard labour).

Yes, it is a ladder, but this time is not painting but cleaning gutters and the roof (gum trees you know).

“Why do you invite Phillip Adams”

I actually thought it was Margo, kind of like her twin sister, wouldn’t you say?

“…Inquiry or Royal Commission into your treatment of the intruders Felis.”

Thanks for the warning Scott.

And the Damien person already visited this website!
I am DOOMED!

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February 12th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
Patrick
 5 

No Felis, “the Damien person” loves you. He lives in a strange world where a little hug and love will fix everything.
lets all have a love in!

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February 12th, 2005 at 2:24 pm
Felis
 6 

“He lives in a strange world where a little hug and love will fix everything.”

Something like “Play School”
or “Sesame Street” but all singing bloody Goombaya?

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February 12th, 2005 at 9:30 pm
Patrick
 7 

Yes! Find a campfire with a few stoned hippy types all singing Coombaya, and you will find “the Damien person” :lol:

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February 13th, 2005 at 1:21 am
Kati
 8 

let’s have a barbi I cook mean turkey! No Damien isn’t invited to sing Coombaya.

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February 13th, 2005 at 2:03 am
scott
 9 

we could cook Damien…

He’s a turkey..:lol::lol::lol:

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February 13th, 2005 at 2:44 am
Kati
 10 

I think Damien is already cooked.

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February 13th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
romanwanderer
 11 

Great pics.
Signed, the Roman Stalkeress

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February 14th, 2005 at 5:01 am
felis
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Hi there RW,
“Great pics.”
Thanks.
I compressed them too much From 3Mb each to 27Kb) and their quality suffered.
It’s because there is only so muchspace on the server.

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February 14th, 2005 at 8:11 am
Patrick
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Hello there romanwanderer. Thank you for slipping across from Felis’s site.
Felis, I set the picture size for the blog at 500kb. If you would like it set higher, please let me know and I’ll get right on it. As long as the pictures are not so wide that they force the page to have a scroll bar down the bottom, the size is of no real relevance to me.
3mb can be done if you wish it.

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February 14th, 2005 at 12:32 pm
felis
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“Felis, I set the picture size for the blog at 500kb. ”

Patrick, I wasn’t complaining.
I think the limits you’ve set are very reasonable.

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February 14th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Patrick
 15 

I know you were not complaining :razz: The option to increase the size for you is there if you wish it.

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February 14th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
gindy
 16 

What kind of bird is that? Some sort of vulture?

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February 15th, 2005 at 5:02 am
felis
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Hi there Gindy!.
“Some sort of vulture?”
No, Gindy, it’s an Australian Brush Turkey.
They cannot really fly, I mean they try, but it is rather pathetic.
It is an interesting bird.
The male prepares a mound(up to 4 metres ca 12ftin diameter and 1 meter high) with his feet.
Then he choses his lady and after brief and noisy courtship he forces her to lie eggs into the mound.
Then he covers the eggs with more top soil and chases his “former” love away.
The male looks after the mound by adding or removing organic matter/dirt.
It is to maintain the right temperature.
The chicks hatch in about seven weeks.
From then on the male forgets about his fatherhood.
As soon as the chicks hatch they are on their own.

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February 15th, 2005 at 7:53 am
gindy
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“No, Gindy, it’s an Australian Brush Turkey”

That has got to be the ugliest turkey I have ever seen. Last question, do people hunt them?

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February 15th, 2005 at 9:10 am
felis
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“do people hunt them?”
No, they are in fact protected species.
Most of the native Australian fauna species are protected.
Only some are not (mostly fish).
Early settlers of course hunted all sorts of animals here.
Brush turkey is limited to the rain forest areas.
There are also Australian Lire birds around our place.
Their males can mimic almost any sound to impress their girlfriends.
Usually it would be voices of other birds but once I herd one male imitating a car horn.

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February 15th, 2005 at 10:02 am
Damien
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Aww come on, let me come to the BBQ, Ive calmed down, Ive got off my high horse. Im going to hang around here for a while to see what I can learn from this.
I would most certainly bring roo meat for the occasion, if you guys dont mind eating roo? But I will spare the guitar and “coombaya” coz my singing really sucks.

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February 15th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
Kati
 21 

Actually I love roo. But there is a slight problem about inviting you to a BBQ. You people run in packs and are always armed. I wouldn’t want a BBQ ruined by urine.

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February 15th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
Patrick
 22 

Roo can be a bit tough Damien. Unless you marinate it first or eat it almost raw. A nice juicy steak would be my first choice every time.

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February 15th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
gindy
 23 

Very interesting. I am a little freaked out about eating Kangaroo though. But, I would try wild turkey any day. Thanks for the info.

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February 15th, 2005 at 7:11 pm
Felis
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“But I will spare the guitar and “coombaya” coz my singing really sucks.”
You’re officially invited Damien.
Yeah, I worried for a while about the guitar thing.

Now I remember!
It was bloody Kumbaya not Coombaya.
And yes I sang it and played my guitar.

‘Twas many moons ago and I looked like a “real” hippy type.

Agrrh. I wasn’t a pretty sight.

“Very interesting. I am a little freaked out about eating Kangaroo though”

You’re right Gindy, they kick like hell.

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February 15th, 2005 at 7:32 pm

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