Miners Strike

I'm afraid that my resolve to blog at least once a week may soon hit a slight snag - my life just isn't interesting enough to warrant such constant updatery. So sorry if this one is a little dull....

The reason for the blog title, is that we have a couple of noisy miners nesting in one of the little trees outside our study/sleepout windows. We have been enjoying watching their progress, and ooohing at the 2 little faces we can now see as the eggs have hatched. However - noisy miners are feisty little buggers at the best of times, let alone when they have babbies. They will very aggressively defend their territory, even birds other than the nesting pair. At the moment their territory includes our stairs and veranda, and they'll try and see us off if we stick our heads out the window to have a look at the nest. This doesn't especially bother us, but the poor cat is now having to cope with the double indignity of no longer being fed steak 3 times a day, and now being bullied by the local wildlife. Sometimes we can hear this massive cacophony of squawking start up outside, and we'll go out to find Jerry sat on the veranda trying to look all nonchalant, and various miner birds and magpies all lined up on the power lines looking like a scene from Hitchcock all shouting at him at the top of their lungs. Am I a bad person that I find it pretty funny that a 6.5 kilo tom cat is scared of some ickle birds? To add to our troubles, a group of golden orb weavers have set up shop at the foot of our stairs. I am not very fond of them (although they are quite pretty I can grudgingly admit). I know spiders are our friends in the constant battle against Australian flies, but I'm not sure how I feel about these spiders...



We've just had an election over here, and I must admit I won't be sorry to see the back of all the campaign advertising. Also I am surprised by how much I care that I was unable to have a say in the governance of the country of my permanent residence. At least that twat Howard wasn't re-elected is all I can say. I am also very excited to discover that our new environment minister used to be in Midnight Oil. Seems somehow appropriate, don't you think?