Menagerie update

Menagerie update

Just after the last post, I saw a crawly that seemed too slow for a cockroach. Our seemed to be a beetle, and quite a cool one. Bad photo, sorry. Bentley had a play with it and then vomited. Not sure if that was grass-related or beetle-related.

Ribbit

I was worried about biters and cockroaches now we have a terrace. There are some large dead exemplars of both in the runners of our sliding doors. So far, though, the most extraordinary addition to our menagerie is some frogs (or things that sound like frogs) in the...
Hong Kong photos

Hong Kong photos

I am depressed because I don’t think any of my thousands of HK photos are up to this standard. But I think he’s a pro given the AFP logo on a few. I am uplifted because they are amazing. Worth watching them all as a...

On hold at the China Club

I just realised that the telephone hold music for the China Club in Hong Kong is this classic Monty Python song. Stylish! Monty Python- I Like Chinese 1980 – YouTube.

A very British day

Got up late, mowed and watered the lawn =:-), went for Sunday roast, sang renaissance music in a church, finishing with beers and dinner in a British gastropub. It’s slightly odd that it is 32 degrees and ferociously polluted outside, but apart from that spot...
Moving day

Moving day

Bentley is not liking this at all. He’s pictured above the kitchen cabinets in the new flat and has now built a fortress from the stuff up there to protect him from the evil humans who are wrecking his comfortable life.

Israeli desalination

Some amazing stats on water use in Israel following the worst rainfall in years. This is massive. 30% of potable water from desalination rising to 40% in 2015 90% of waste water recycled for agricultural use Max $500 each year for a family’s needs for...

More on US gun control

Or is that moron gun control. Yes. ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this,36131/