I would love one of these, but there is no way I would build one as long as I’m renting – another reason to settle down, I guess….
The three penguins labour over a pizza oven
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I don’t like cockroaches and we get a few here since they love hiding out under the deck in the little courtyard garden. I can’t squish them though. I go with the glass on cardboard and flung out the door approach. I hope each one takes the hint and doesn’t come back inside.
A cockroach is perfectly adapted to its environment...
Tags: adaptation, cockroaches, pest control
Fish have different personality types
This idea came from an article about how fish really do have different personality types. And before anyone takes umbrage against my attack on Scorpios, well today is my birthday. I’m hitting the big four-oh and taking the train from Sydney to Perth to celebrate!
Tags: 3 day train trip, astrology, eating, fish, scorpio
The endangered fish that speaks the truth
The fish get a brief reprieve
This week’s fish series came from an article I read about Greenpeace dropping rocks in the North Sea to stop fishing trawlers chewing up the seabed.
The fishing industry seems determined to catch every last fish in the North Sea. The governments of the region and the EU have done little to stop them, but they may soon hit a few snags: a team from Greenpeace Germany and Greenpeace Netherlands has sailed into the German North Sea and begun placing 150 granite rocks on the seabed. They are hoping that the rocks, each weighing 2-3 tonnes and measuring one square cubic metre, will prevent fishing boats from bottom trawling on the Sylt Outer Reef. This highly destructive fishing method involves a net being dragged across the seabed indiscriminately catching everything in its path.Bottom trawling not only decimates stocks of popular fish, such as sole and plaice, but it also results in a large amount of bycatch – which is thrown back into the sea either dead or dying.
Tags: English Channel, fishing trawlers, greenpeace, NOrth Sea, rocks, seabed destruction
Ed knows Aikido
This strip came out of doing a self-defence course with an Aikido instructor. I found the course really useful, but one of the thing that bothers me about this and other martial arts is that you can’t just do it in your track-suit. Once you get serious, you have to wear a daft-looking outfit that you will never be wearing outside should you need to use the skills you learned…
Tags: aikido, fight, hoodlums, hoods, looking for trouble, louts, self-defence
Port Phillip Council is working on some webisodes about how local people are reducing their carbon footprint. They came around to my place to demonstrate what you can do in a small flat. After that, there was some green screen filming and then a quick visit to the garden (the only point I remembered to get some photos – pics of them crammed into my tiny studio would have been much better -oops).
They liked the backdrop of Luna Park (you can also see Penelope the bicycle that also starred in the film)
Once the episodes go up on the internet, I’ll put a link up.
Me with the director, Sergio
Tags: living green
Frank sending a message to Copenhagen
Tags: climate change, climate talks, copenhagen, polar bear
Billie poses in front of our plot
Our potatoes are coming up and pak choi survives the bug attacks
some young plants can be protect with cut down plastic bottles
We’ve had a few servings of mixed salad leaves this week and the watercress has been a surprising star of the well-drained plot.
Tags: gardening
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