Today in Perth was one of this city’s not at all rare, uncanny winter days – the kind which turns visitors into immigrants.
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“Languid”, “calm”, “quiet”, “gentle”…could such words ever properly describe a market, let alone a butcher’s shop within one?
They did in fact fit our experience of the covered market in Antsirabe, late on the morning of 12 May 2018.
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Chapter Two is international, and includes a musical bonus – audio of two of my favourite rain songs. (one of them is an “unissued” version)
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I live in a sundrenched metropolis. Today has been gloriously wild, intermittently very wet, ever-changing, mostly cool.
Many fellow residents of Perth regard such days as “miserable” or “horrible”, to be endured, not enjoyed…and not at all photogenic.
They are wrong/blind; dry, warm sunny days are not the only “good” kind!
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Nearly half of the world’s circa 200 species of chameleon live only in Madagascar, including the most massive – Parson’s chameleon, Calumma parsoni.
Its spectacular ability to change colour is a means of communication rather than camouflage.
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Ring-tailed lemurs (pictured above, in Anja National Park) are its emblematic animal.
Parson’s chameleon (pictured below, near Ranomafana) is the world’s biggest chameleon.
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We are in France for our first time.
However, this bit of France is very much closer to Madagascar than to Paris!
Reunion is a spectacular volcanic island; its (and the entire Indian Ocean’s) highest peak soars more than 3,000 metres above the sea…and rather more than half of the whole mountain is below the sea’s surface.
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This is a sequel/prequel to previous “Autumn Morning…” post.
This post’s photos were all taken in the eastern end of Bathurst Harbour on 22 March 2018, between 6.29 pm and 8.04 pm.
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Three recent essays (one, delivered as a speech to The National Press Club) – each, very different – are provocative, but nuanced.
Richard Flanagan’s, Stan Grant’s and Don Watson’s words are worth reading, in full.
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This sequel to preceding post was made possible by yesterday’s long-awaited arrival of the lens that I ordered in January.
(Q: do mega corporate entities still treat Australia as a “distant colony, there to be exploited, rather than served or serviced promptly?” A: Yes, alas)
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