The wonder of Weeny’s wildlife continues
Continuing the stories of C8 ants of Ants, Alison Stewart of Waitara would like to add: “We made climbing the ants/down the wall of our balcony of the 6th floor apartment for several weeks. C8 hopes only that Noah is not reading this.
In other news about the wildlife, Harrington’s Joy Cooksey would like to put in a word for “the great Arachnid who has a great circular web tent, draped by a tree through the roof of my house. It must be admired for skills and perseverance as it continually does the repair work during the recent wild time.”
Rinking Turkington by Rockdale makes another spider story, referring to: “Going to a garbage bin outside a light last week, I discovered that an enterprising spider had made a net as a lid above the entire basket and I was waiting for a prey. (I didn’t have a heart to break the beautiful construction and had used the bin next to it.)”
For larger animals, Murray Hutton of Monte Colah would like Peter Miniutti (C8, Thursday) to consider that Coyote is not a stupid animal: “How many Australian natives can you appoint that they have the means to order all types of accessories by the ACME company?”
Hence, the cynical Roger Lenehan by Eagle Heights (QLD) adds: “Having guided many hundreds of thousands of miles in my life, I think the most stupid animal of the road, in so many cases, is the human being”.
In a different topic: the word target of last Friday, Ytebio. This brought a burst of protesting letters in number not seen by the great “Spikenard” Kerfuffle of 2003. The writers barely, reluctantly, accepted the Yterbio but questioned the pronunciation, so C8 would like to direct them to the great Tom Lehrer and his song of the elements of the elements Set on Gilbert’s melody and Sullivan’s Model of a modern general generalWhere you will discover that it is “it-tt-BEE-TIM”, relating to the only other Y, Ittrium (it-re-hum), both appointed for the Swedish village otherwise not acting of Ytterby.
Back to another literary question, the personal rites of reading C8. Lindsay Somerville by Lindfield says: “I have always read Colonna 8 from top to bottom, so I try to remember each element. Only when it is done, I try to remember each element on the contrary. Having a maximum of 10 articles is a supreme test that I often take some time to conquer.”
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