Look who came to the party

[fivemack]

There was a special offer on lemons at Sainsbury's, and I remembered that various of my friends had expressed various levels of irritation at the way that all lemonade in shops contained artificial sweeteners, so I made up a large quantity of lemonade and threw a party.

[one coffee-cup full of sugar, one coffee-cup full of water; put in a pan on a gentle heat until all the sugar has dissolved; add one coffee-cup full of lemon juice, which is the juice of about six lemons; pour into a jug and allow to cool; pour a bit into a cup and add water, fizzy or not, to taste]

The party seemed to work fairly well; it was a lovely night, so I set up my telescope and we admired the moon, and beckyc saw our visitor above while wandering indoors to pick up binoculars. After a little while, the hedgehog moved into the next-door garden, where she engaged in an uneasy, though hard to photograph, stand-off with the district cat.

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[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Not keen on possums; the biggest thing we routinely find up trees in England is a squirrel, so I was disturbed to find cat-sized arboreal creatures ambling around in a noisy noctural fashion when walking across the University of Sydney campus at midnight in the winter.

From the described powerful-but-slow-to-anger don't-pester-me temperament of the wombat, I wonder if the Australian mythos includes people dwelling alone in the deep countryside, distrustful of visitors, and identifying with wombats -- or do they have too much an overtone of stupidity to make sense as an object of emulation? The ones at Taronga were asleep the one time I was there, and looked like smooth furry rocks, I was disappointed.