Peter Relph

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Retired in the bush in Far North Queensland, Oz

Grumpy old bugger whose politics are still where the left was 50 years ago before they either fell apart or dashed off to the right.

Near immobile, behind a PC, next to a window, my two windows on the world I see birds kangaroos & fascists, & good people..

Cornish, Welsh, English, possibly a tiny bit Traveller. Born in Bristol
@310ppm.

Currently also
@[email protected]

L'Etranger, observing, wondering, despairing
Blog:https://relph.org/author/admin/
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My current FireFish.Social experience
Does anyone else have all manner of trouble getting anything from FireFish.Social?

Maybe it's just my computer, which responds normally to all other social media sites, but FireFish always appears on the brink of failing totally & always gives me error messages when I try to post, even if the post had gone through as hoped.

[Retrospectively] The error message for this post.
Bushfire sunset through the smoke from the Watsonville fire this evening
Recent visitor, presumably a Yellow Faced HoneyEater?
Don't know what is going on, three different new birds in two days, this is one of them.
Anyone?
Also one briefly glimpsed looked something like a Noisy Friar but with white splashes on each cheek or neck, & another with yellow patches on its cheeks, I don't think the last two were the same.
Looking at a 1901 Census in the UK, one 64 year widow had a Footman, a Butler, two Housemaids, two Ladies Maids, a Cook & a Kitchen Maid.

Seriously.

My rellie was a 16 year old Housemaid.

It's not much, but it was home.

Leyswood, Groomsbridge, Sussex

This appears to be it.
A 20-year research project satellite-tracking seals has found new places in East Antarctica

The deepest parts of the Antarctic are difficult to explore but seals have helped reveal the mysteries below, and it's a thousand metres deeper than researchers thought. 

ABC News