I see a tall dark stranger

My wife had an unnerving experience recently when driving home from work. We live in the country, so we're used to seeing wallabies wandering all over the roads, but never anything like this.

She was driving down the street, when she was aware of this tall, dark presence in her rear view mirror. She was travelling at about twenty miles an hour, so she figured it would have to be a pretty fit athlete to be keeping up with her.

Then, the next thing she knew, he OVERTOOK her and raced off into the bush! Not a curly-headed man in a track suit, but an emu out for his evening jog!

Now we've seen everything (or at least she has, because I wasn't there). Ain't nature grand?

We really enjoyed our holiday (I think)

Never ask a tour guide to take your photo!

(unforgettable memories of New Zealand)

Larry, Curly, Mo and the other guy

We have a band of feathery brothers (possibly sisters?) who descend on us every morning for a feed of raw kanga meat. They were all born around the same time and exhibit all the playful stupidity of normal youngsters. At least one of them seems to have imprinted on my wife and spends long moments perched on the table staring intently at her. When they were first born, they would line up with their mouths open, croaking impatiently and she would drop the food into each of their open beaks. Ah, the joys of parenthood (at least she didn't have to regurgitate it for them). No nappies to change either, they just do it right there on the verandah. We are pretty sure they haven't lost their hunting instincts though as we see them swooping on unsuspecting frogs and lizards in the garden from time to time. Soon they'll have young ones of their own and we'll be grandparents. Ain't nature grand?

Here there be monsters

Came across this less than flattering map of Australia.

The scary thing is, most of it is true! .

My brilliant career

Found this old photo of me when I used to play for the New Zealand All Blacks. Ah, those were the days!! Scaring the beejeebers out of the opposing team with a rousing haka. As you can see, my head was slightly out of proportion with the rest of my body in those days. It has grown a lot since then.

A Cinderella Story

Our illustrious leader, Julia Gillard, gets a rough trot in the press these days. The poor woman had to be rescued from an angry mob the other day and this is what some evil genius did with the pics on the internet.



Julia in a three-legged race ...



Julia playing mini golf ...



Julia ice skating ... and all with only one shoe.
I think she deserves a fairer go than that, so I promise not to post any more of these offensive images ...

Except for this ...

And this.

The Incredibles

Just had to post this! What a picture! What a couple! The Incredibles are REAL! I wonder what the dog's super power is?