Hey misshestermoffit!
Well, the majority Aussies do what most Westerners do for New Year. We get drunk, kiss each other and then at various stages through the early hours of the morning, either pass out, get into a fight or keep drinking til the sun comes up...
The capital cities put on big parties and fireworks etc. Some of us will sit around the TV and watch the different 'ringing ins' of the New year in other countries. Others will do the church thing, or put on tinfoil hats...the usual deal.
HOWEVER, some of us will be doing similar things to korvette and Chinacat. WE won't have kids here tomorrow night either!
We might even sneak our new second hand 4WD out and go for a drive out to the caves...maybe...
Roosters are male yes...
He was a LARGE Rooster so I never thought he would be taken by a hawk. I never saw that hawk but my neighbor told me after I disclosed my horrible loss. Ol' Noah (nice old guy) said it was the bifggest hawk he had seen in a long long time and the hawk hung out on the far fence line for three days he said......waiting for the right moment. BASTARD!!! It all became clear to us ... after. All these years later I still have people ask about him....... he left an impression. Of course how I got him and raised him.....well that's a story for another time
...... out.
Our in-laws had a dog disappear about six months ago. This was down south where we were earlier this year. This particular dog had a habit of lying in the morning sun in the paddock to get warm. She'd just lay there looking dead...
...We have
Wedge Tailed Eagles here. Big buggers. They can stand 3 feet tall (as tall as a roadside guide post) and have wing spans averaging 2 to 3 metres. It so happened that a pair had been hanging around the general area for about a week or so. We suspect that 'Pearl' may have become wedgie food. She was only a small terrier size.
....TANGENTAL BRAIN DRIFT....
I was thinking of wedgies, but then thought of Sunny and Wilma...and then the Monty Python Parrot sketch popped into my head...
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Further trivia:
At
Graham Chapman's memorial service, John Cleese began his
eulogy by stating that Graham Chapman was
no more, that he had
ceased to be, that he had
expired and
gone on to meet his maker, and so on, finally calling him an
ex-Chapman. Cleese went on to justify his eulogy by claiming that Chapman would never have forgiven him if he had not taken the opportunity to reference the sketch.