More Fun With Volcanoes

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…John Banks…he went on to be mayor of our largest city….we should have chucked him in the volcano whilst we had the chance….

…and yes, he did suggest we move foreigners closer to it in large quantities when it was going off!!!

 

So Anyway

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…I’m in the back garden splitting wood when there’s a flurry of feathers between the fence and the apartments next door…lotsa feathers…white and black….black flew out… couldn’t see what it was…white popped up onto the fence, heart pounding like a jack hammer, looked fit to burst…turned around to go get my camera….black was behind me on the peak of the house roof…a New Zealand Falcon, Karearea….rare as all hell… hunting urbanly…terrorising the neighbours doves….and sitting on my house!!!…. a very beautiful bird of prey….no camera….I’m between it and it’s intended target…it’s between me and my camera…slowly moved inside…it fly off before I could make three paces….neighbours dove stayed put for two more hours before it snuck home….I can understand why….

…moral?…

…carry that camera ALL the time.

Back On Earth

….for the first time in what feels like months…Scan 6Scan 7Scan 8

….kinda miss the Planet of the Chicken-things already….

…maybe we could return there someday….

…maybe.

Walking Back From My Mechanics

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…still very autumnal in the middle of winter….

…still no real frost 1 day before the shortest day…

…nice, but we’re all stuffed aren’t we?…..