Casa EvilMoon had a bizarre encounter last night. At about 11pm I was heading out the back door for a smoke, when I noticed something out on the concrete. Thinking it was a wandering dog, I was about to yell at it when I got the shock of my life: it was a dirty great Black Wallaby! I hissed at moonlit to come see, while trying to keep Polly from getting outside but it then started hopping down the driveway. It stopped at the end of the driveway for a few moments before bounding away up the street, after nearly being hit by a car. We watched it disappear around the corner and thought that was the end of it...but then it came back. It stopped out front of the house for a few more minutes, and then hopped away down the road...where it stopped again in the middle of the road, and was nearly hit by the same car again, which must've gone around the block! The damn thing then hopped back towards the house, and came around into the backyard again! Fearing it might get spooked and attack Polly...or me...I managed to scare it back onto the street, and then down to the lagoon. Again--foolishly--we thought it had gone but within a few minutes it was back sitting in the middle of the road about halfway between us and the lagoon. As I was watching it, someone walked around the corner down by the lagoon and up the hill, which sent it hopping straight towards me and back up the driveway into our backyard again. By now I was beginning to get annoyed but when I tried to scare it out again, instead of heading down the driveway, it managed to jump the side fence into our neighbour's backyard. That was the last we saw of it but about fifteen minutes later we heard it hopping--those suckers make a lot of noise when they get moving--outside but by the time we got out there it had finally disappeared for the night.
Mal ,'Shindig'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
Discussion of episodes currently airing in Un-American locations (anything that's aired in Australia is fair game), as well as anything else the Un-Americans feel like talking about or we feel like asking them. Please use the show discussion threads for any current-season discussion.
Add yourself to the Buffista map while you're here by updating your profile.
Heh. And Americans think they have deer problems. Deer can't leap fences nearly as well, I'm thinking.
It must have thought Sylvester and his son were in your house.
Hey Raq, I'm thinking about coming to Greece at the end of Feb. You're in Athens, right?
Am-Chau, the magazine showed up today! Thank you very, very much!
Yay! I was just wondering yesterday if it had made it.
Night of the Black Wallaby
I think your experiments with Wallaby Attraction Pheremone are starting to pay off.
SA, cool! I am in Athens. You are welcome to stay at my house, if you can stand the two-year-old.
SA, cool! I am in Athens. You are welcome to stay at my house, if you can stand the two-year-old.
If by stand you mean spoil, then yes.
Do you have any airline suggestions? I can't seem to find any cheap ones that fly in or around Athens. Is there another airport nearby?
I think your experiments with Wallaby Attraction Pheremone are starting to pay off.
Hee. Not as well as mine.
I'm reading the Harry Potter story written by our own lovely Fay, and now I'm curious again about the etymology of various British slang. I know what things like "for a game of soldiers", "you're pulled", and "big girl's blouse" mean, but why do they mean that? I dislike being baffled by my own language.