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moving the garden hose reel to wash the car, we found a pair of Marbled geckos[1] living in the coils
[1] Marbled gecko
a much needed mow of the lawns and half an hour of battling the long grass edging
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The wildlife
Do I restart the Gemini blog I had (or have)? A few notes from here and there, but no entries for most of Jan. Yes or no? I would prefer to publish it from Org mode so I can write entries remotely
Wildlife for [2022-02-02 Wed]
Pausing to open the gate in the front garden when I was nearly collected by a juvenile magpie[1] that flew down and perched on the fence within arm’s reach. Someone nearby must be feeding it, completely fearless as it hopped around and took pieces of bread and cheese from my fingers, although it did keep one eye on the cat… as did we [1] Australian magpie
Wildlife for [2022-01-31 Mon]
Walking down the garden late at night, trying to find the cat that had decided it was too hot to come inside. A flicker of movement infront of me at around thigh height and I stopped just in time. The very large orb spider was busy building her web across the garden path, from plum tree to vegetable garden to outdoor chair – perhaps with a view to catching pedestrians
Weereewa wildlife for [2022-01-30 Sun]
Early morning ride. Flocks of Eastern Rosellas[1], some crimson[2] too. Magpies[3]. The grebe[4] nest nearest the road now has 2 eggs. An unidentified hawk or harrier. One swamp wallaby[5] up on the escarpment and later a few mobs of roos[6]. Thick clouds of little flies and a few dragonflies, the rest waiting for more sun. Rabbits zoom across the road, some very close. [1] Eastern rosella [2] Crimson rosella [3] Australian magpie [4] Australasian grebe [5] Swamp wallaby [6] Eastern grey kangaroo
Tomorrow was Thursday
An accidental statement from Cam, but a good name for a book
Wildlife for [2022-01-25 Tue]
Yesterday. Sacred kingfisher[1] on the ride to Harrietville, second I’ve seen this trip. Saw one up on tawonga gap on Saturday Gang-gang[2] cockies In pairs creaking around in the trees, a small flock of king parrots[3], kookaburras[4] most mornings starting at dawn. Magpies[5] all around and I think I just saw a small flock of bowerbirds [1] Sacred kingfisher [2] Gang-gang [3] King parrot [4] Laughing kookaburra [5] Australian magpie
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Wildlife for [2022-01-23 Sun]
Hot afternoon, not the hottest its been in Bright. Blue faced honeyeaters[1] around, thought I saw some earlier, definitely just saw a few on the rubbish bins [1] Blue-faced honeyeater
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.