We have cicadas in the UK too, although only in one forest in the south and they haven't been seen or heard for 20 years. However they also weren't seen from 1941 to 1961 so they could be due a reappearance soon. No doubt someone would claim such an event is a harbinger of a climate apocalypse or something.
Nobody should be eating something that classified as endangered and possibly extinct. Emulate Wendy Cope and don't eat a Barn Owl either - even though they are very definitely not extinct.
Last night we had a level three thunderstorm come through Eastern Washington. Here is a link to some pictures of the storm. There was some definite rotation to the clouds, though no funnel appeared. We were very lucky.
I suppose it depends on how you define weird. In 24 hours, without leaving my home in southern Ontario, I watched the launch of a space ship in Florida as it happened, I watched the International Space Station in orbit above our house, I joined a church service in Scotland with friends, and now we've watched the ship arrive at the space station.
In 1957 my father came home one morning after his night shift at the radio monitoring station to tell us he'd been listening to the first signals from Sputnik 1.
No - I gather the duty Recording Angel had had to take a flight to a certain heavenly beauty spot, to test his eyesight, and was delayed on his return by the Celestial Police.
His junior couldn't cope, being troubled by a peculiarly un-angelic hairstyle flopping over his eyes, and getting into his ink.
I don't know about anyone else, but I for one am very pleased there was an administrative cock-up circumstances beyond our control causing BF's rapturing to be postponed.
We need another cheese thread. I had just been thinking how good it would be to find some Pont l'Évêque again. Heavenly is probably not the right description as it smells like a toilet that needs to be cleaned, but the taste is quite out of this world.
My dad who was an amateur radio operator looked forward to the solar activity years. After flares finish the upper atmosphere is further ionized and radio signals can zip to most corners of the earth. It was about the only time his signal could reach India or Antarctica.
We now have barn owls in NZ apparently. Not sure if they were blown over from Australia or came by more dubious ways.
According to this, individuals have arrived in a variety of different ways, so the origin of those currently present isn't clear.
I didn't realise they counted as native. I learn something new every day. Good job they didn't go from here to Aus as they could find themselves in a detention Centre as illegal aliens.
Apparently during the lock down NZ Birds Online had far more hits than usual. Probably people checking on some of the birds that explored new places like the centre of Wellington without people - which would be a vast improvement as far as the birds were concerned.
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It doesn't need harbingers: it's here.
In 1957 my father came home one morning after his night shift at the radio monitoring station to tell us he'd been listening to the first signals from Sputnik 1.
It's been interesting so far. Whatever next?
There was a bit of a mix-up with the paperwork, it seems.
His junior couldn't cope, being troubled by a peculiarly un-angelic hairstyle flopping over his eyes, and getting into his ink.
Silly Shippies. Don't you know the Rapture already happened?
Ah know this, because the Lard revealed it to me in a Dream...and Ah am now a-prarphesying in the name of the Lard...glary be!
CHEESE, anyone? Ah have some nice ripe Stilton...
Ooo! Transport it my way, there's a dear boy. Stilton, the cheese of the gods.
Who clicked "Post Comment"?
Actually it's the meek.
Like SCTV's spoof group The Ramblers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vti4Ymo_toc
If the rest of you don't mind, that is.
My sister, glad to see me Gone...
Yes.
The goats probably ate it. Bloody things eat anything.
According to this, individuals have arrived in a variety of different ways, so the origin of those currently present isn't clear.
My dad who was an amateur radio operator looked forward to the solar activity years. After flares finish the upper atmosphere is further ionized and radio signals can zip to most corners of the earth. It was about the only time his signal could reach India or Antarctica.
I didn't realise they counted as native. I learn something new every day. Good job they didn't go from here to Aus as they could find themselves in a detention Centre as illegal aliens.
Apparently during the lock down NZ Birds Online had far more hits than usual. Probably people checking on some of the birds that explored new places like the centre of Wellington without people - which would be a vast improvement as far as the birds were concerned.
June to November, isn't it?
Yes, Hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30. Tropical storms don't seem to be too concerned about the humans' calendar, however!