Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
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No comments yet? Maybe, like me, everyone had an insanely busy Sunday!
Too late for a lazy Sunday now!
I came home from a holiday in Europe and spent most of the day snoozing on the couch attempting to catch up on must-see TV episodes missed while OS.
Hate. Jetlag.
Liam’s weekend: watched a bunch of gaelic and Australian rules footballers try to figure out International Rules, saw a brilliant band on Saturday night, received a drunken death threat, bought a car.
On monday last week, just prior to a trip to Sth Aust, the dogs caught up with me on the treadley with an orphan lamb bleating at their heels. For colostrum I used cows milk with an egg and honey but next morning was off on my trip.
Mrs Z used a watered down cows milk ’til I arrived back midday thurs. The owner of the sheep agisted here had put aside a lamb milk replacement for me. We then suffered the very cold antarctic blast of wet and miserable weather so I converted the old dog trailer into a shelter for the lamb that Mrs Z named Sugar [survivor grampians].
So my weekend was as nursemaid to this amazingly resilient and surprisingly smart orphan.
Spent most of Saturday reading and taking notes from Robert Barnes, An Unlikely Leader. The Life and Times of Captain John Hunter. His chapter on Hunter in the American Revolution/War of Independence is a bit scant, relying on Hunter’s somewhat unreliable memoirs from the 1801 Naval Chronicle. Has some very good insights into Hunter’s childhood and early youth, and into the plusres and minuses of Hunter’s character. Haven’t finished it yet.
Watched the last episode of The Bill. What am i Gonna do with my Saturday nights?
Sunday. Watched Insiders. The more I see of David Marr, the less I admire him. Mainly got caught up on LP_ most of the day. Combination of interesting discussions, and being hypnotised by a computer screen. Night, watched Stephen Fry having a scary time in Africa, Poirot, and the Canonisation. On the latter, Church stuff still bores me shitless, though I liked the macabre touch of the hair imbedded in a wooden cross. Somebody out there has a sense of humour.
here is Sugar and the dogs.
Zorronsky, poddy lambs are generally cute, but poddy lambs being nurtured by wolfhounds (or are they lurchers?) is extra awwww.
The shot of the one doing the toothy grin behind the lamb needs to be made into a caption competition methinks.
“Hey kid, fancy a roll in the mint?”
Worked, and wished I was back up north.
Arrived back in Australia on Friday.
Started work at 2am on Saturday.
Started work at 3am on Sunday.
The newly-beloved in Hiroshima has decided that she loves me.
Her four-year-old daughter likes me because I’m a new playmate that she can be cheeky to and not get into trouble.
But the nine-year-old lad doesn’t like me at all, largely because he now has to share his mum.
They’re Deerhounds tigtog but you are close. 26 outcrosses of the Deerhound were used to bring the Wolfhound back from the brink and Lurchers are look-a-likes being Sighthound crosses with smaller breeds. The dog with the grin was yawning, he’s seen it all before.
Greetings from beautiful Princeton, New Jersey!
(Yeah, I’m aware of the irony: I just used the words “beautiful” and “Jersey” in the same sentence.) Lots of squirrels around here, both literally and figuratively.
I’m told they’ve got a university hidden someplace in this town. My theory is, if I keep stumbling around aimlessly, I stand a pretty good chance of finding it.