Date and Time: Friday, 15 February, 2019 at 12 Noon Venue: West Adelaide Football Clubrooms. Attending: Alex Riley, Rod Parham, Ellen Krueger, Marilyn and David Harding, Apologies: Jenny and Gary Easther, There will be a wonderful salad bar fit for any Creature. For Bookings: contact either Alex Riley on 0419 035 970 or Rod Parham … Continue reading
Lightning and stars a perfect combination Image Credit: Photograph by Penney Hayley · · From Stargazing As I watch this electrical storm move around Lake Kununurra in Western Australia I realized that the stars were also visible. Personally I believe Ii’s a great combination. Kununurra has sky is unpolluted and as I was shooting away … Continue reading
The Mandrake, Mandragora officinarum, is a plant called by the Arabs luffâh, or beid el-jinn (“djinn’s eggs”). Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshades family (Solanaceae). Mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, apoatropine, and hyoscyamine. The roots sometimes bifurcate, causing them to … Continue reading
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1757 to 1795, was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in Georgian London. A small, attractive pocketbook, it was printed and published in Covent Garden, and sold for two shillings and sixpence. A contemporary report of 1791 estimates that it sold about 8,000 copies annually. Each … Continue reading
Crimson rosellas can detect members of their own sub-species by the smell of their feathers. Image Credit: Courtesy Deakin University A BIRD’S SENSE of smell may be just as important as its sight in identifying family or potential mates. Crimson rosellas (Platycercus elegans), colourful parrots that inhabit eastern and south-eastern Australia, can identify their own … Continue reading
Pictured is poor old Wat Tyler being slain by one of Richard the Second’s thugs during the Peasant’s Rebellion in England during June, 1381. Just when Wat Tyler and thousands of peasants (mainly women) were getting the upper hand in the Peasant’s Rebellion Wat Tyler made a terrible and fatal mistake. He trusted the word … Continue reading
