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Thanks Perseph, Nellie is amazing, who outside of Adelaide knew? Super shot BDJ, I thought it was a projected historic image of a real Adelaide zoo/circus elephant, a bit like Melbourne's Queenie. Queenie was euthanased in 1944 - not for any reason of need, they decided she was too expensive to feed. I was a toddler, and can remember Mum and Dad crying. (Queenie had accidentally killed one of her keepers, but that had been a year earlier).

And just now on a local buy-swap-sell group, a fellow is asking if anyone has a male Pug he can breed with his female Pug. Beyond words. Edit to add: already has a reply, and offering $300.

For NSW I have no idea. But in Victoria there are now no avenues or loopholes, it is illegal.

Exciting news and fingers crossed: so much hope that it works out extra well at the meetings and onwards. Almost envious, I've just fallen for a lovely young light-cream Lurcher/Deer/Staghound type boy: but Rheneas cannot cope with other dogs, I can't even think about it. Wanders off singing "Pretty Boy Floyd the Outlaw" (Guthrie, Seeger).

When I looked at the link I thought goodo, because OH takes a cut-lunch to work daily. Gluten free bread is stupid-small so the sammos fit in normal cheap disposable takeaway containers which I recycle endlessly. Anyhoo, a sandwich will not fit in the bottom of a 1 or 2-litre milk container. Then I read the instructions which are American and they all talk about one-gallon milk containers. That's about four litres: so a larger plastic container than our milk comes in. Bummer. Back to the takeaways. On the up-side, I pick up the left-over fruit pulp from a shopping centre BoostJuice stand. The daily 'take' is one plastic shopping bag full of goodness - from every known fruit and veg that Boost juices. That's for the chooks and geese, mixed with their milled grain, great fresh feed. The Boost staff put my load into a ten-litre white square tub container with good lid that their frozen yoghurt is supplied in. Stronger quality than ice-cream containers. They can't be re-used commercially, just as plastic milk bottles cannot. They scrub up beautifully to store rice, pasta, all that needs to be mouse-proof and moth-proof. Plus for dog food, fridge or freezer containers, waste-paper baskets etc. This size costs around $10 to buy as a food storage container, Décor and all those brands (let alone Tupper, un-affordable these days). So doing my bit with both food wastage and plastic container wastage. Some of the recycling project ideas are just too twee to take the time to fiddle with, but I do like the little boxes from milk containers.

Expensive taste!

So many, they just keep coming don't they, is there an end in sight - will they ever be even slightly eradicated. I keep looking at your shots of them to see if there are any lovely Cashmere types, but don't see many if any.

Yummo to both subjects. This should be Week 5A(or5B) as per page 1 (or not) - but must ask is this the new camera? I've just started with one, so I'll start a 'new cameras' thread rather than clog up 52/2018.

The muffler and the dog tag - both images pose a question rather than tell a story. I don't think I want to know. Lovely furry fern-babies Roova, little clenched fists.

Even at the worst end of a cheaper 600 lens you see the expressiveness of a Corella's face, it's like "eek a mouse". 5/52

I so missed the event. Didn't catch the early moonrise, and then we had enough cloud across the eclipse to miss it. Next morning I was still sleep deprived, but went out for moon-set just in case it was awesome. It was good, just not what I'd had in mind. This morning I was a bit earlier and there was a lovely white moon in a blue sky so made another attempt. Did anyone have a good view of the eclipse? Take photos or yawn and go back to bed?

Yes it's enough to make you cry - well I think I just about did, and that was re the poultry issues, destructive horrible people.

Lovely shot, (are they the 'BJ' reason??)

Oh sorry, stand down, the ref is the Banksia in Mingaling's photo. Big bad bold Banksia Men. The gumnut babies, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Australian classic literature. S&C just turned 100. The only comparison we have with Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter's books are well over 100 years. Another Australian artist of bushland and fairies is Peg Maltby, very much overlooked and under-rated, worth a look on google if you've never heard of her.

Who turned 100 last week? No prizes, naughty corner if you don't know!

Beautiful shed shot Persephone. We shore our few ewes in November, that was leaving it a bit late. But Chocccie ram was only done yesterday, had some let-downs with shearer and he is too difficult for us to risk getting hurt, so he had to "wear it" (read: I'm scared of him and he knows it). And did I get the before and after shots, no I did not, kicking myself. But I now have two bags full of chocolate wool to play with, he was carrying so much.

Magical aren't they, nothing compares to birch forests in the snow.

Can't see it Zm, do you need to make it public or the like?

Wow the finger nails on that animal (and on the koala now I notice). Bunny of the Day - standing up to catch the first sunray this morning. 3/52 And a backlit pair of hairy feet and a hairy chin - has to be one of next-door's Clydesdales. 4/52 - and I'm up to date (for now).

Bunnings sell it, fairly expensive as wire mesh or netting goes, but get what you pay for it is very useful. I use it around chicken brooders to keep mice/rats from decimating baby chicks, but if there was a snake after them also does the job. It is much cheaper at places like Abbots, so worth doing a bit of hunting around for steel or fencing supplies places near you to price compare if you need longer rolls. Hey and agree re the talking dog posts, I'm not reading them through any more than I read Willem's: a tad too gobbleldegook. Heart maybe in the right place, head goes off at a tangent now and then. Here is the wire: I like Whites because a/ they are Australian b/it is good quality and c/ they have the decency to warn of zinc or whatever on their products up-front and offer advice. https://whitesgroup.com.au/fencing-solutions/aviaries-cages/mouse-mesh-details.html

The site mentioned that they would not re-home them outside of Adelaide or adjacent SA-only areas. Is this usually quite rigid, or are they flexible once in a while?

Laughing at toadally lichen. Lovely shots too. And George, just beautiful. Bunny of the Day. (There's a pattern emerging with these torn ears). 2/52

And probably broken ribs along that side from being slammed against the car. Hadn't seen the umbrellas - the dogs look like they wish they hadn't either.

Which are sideways financed by the manufacturers (not to mention their pet-vets and in-house 'nutritionists'). Yes Pal does smell crook - but then so does green tripe and some barf food. (So do Rheneas' farts this morning, which means he's escaped supervision and eaten goose poo, bugger!

I don't feed it and haven't read the analysis, but what I passed on in that post was from a veterinary scientist. Is it any different with horses - no! When we had fit ponies on simple feed back in the day there weren't as many problems as we have now. Pellets and pre-mixes were unheard of, there was hay, chaff and basic additives, oats/bran/pollard/boiled linseed. Now 'balanced' vitamin mineral additive pre-mixes rule, cool this/energy that/performance something else. And a litany of problems comes with them. Not saying everything was rosy with feeding dogs and horses back in the day either, but I still go with Sandgrubber's sentence. Sandgrubber also mentioned above that not feeding fibre is not natural. I've just started my poultry on a hammer-milled mix direct from a farm. The mix is four grains pulverised, with lucerne and oaten hay pulverised through it. And a poultry breeder 'expert' told me today I was mad, that it was "too much fibre". So it's not just dog feeding theories that floor me sometimes.