tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post1450115307856072705..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: Oh, such a perfect dayBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-88429397514389055472013-09-26T19:31:30.859+10:002013-09-26T19:31:30.859+10:00Gosh, Bunyip, I am a child of the bush as well, an...Gosh, Bunyip, I am a child of the bush as well, and as soon as I plunged into your prose I came up through the water, young again!<br />Still gasping, laughing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-19776953874620588142013-09-25T15:09:35.111+10:002013-09-25T15:09:35.111+10:00BBB compared to flicking a fly or a lure into a tr...BBB compared to flicking a fly or a lure into a trout stream the overpaid adolescents of the AFL are a non-event and after Saturday hopefully forgotten for a luxurious all too few months.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-48130755068737254062013-09-25T13:37:00.668+10:002013-09-25T13:37:00.668+10:00Professor, I beg you to put aside your fishing rod...Professor, I beg you to put aside your fishing rod and instead, tell me why the AFL even make a pretence of having umpires who know what our wonerful game is all about. How is it that Will Minson only received two votes during the whole of the season. Big Will is the most talented ruckman in the AFL. Do something about Prof. He should have at least equalled the Brownlow count. Big Bad Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-13579016284068150842013-09-25T09:09:37.977+10:002013-09-25T09:09:37.977+10:00If I am to get biblical within a tent, please make...If I am to get biblical within a tent, please make sure that an eager Hagar is installed upon the LiLo before I part the flaps.Bunyiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-87483273708358885502013-09-25T09:07:28.705+10:002013-09-25T09:07:28.705+10:00It's not a blue tongue, it's one of our wa...It's not a blue tongue, it's one of our water dragons, which are found only in the state's extreme east, the southernmost extent of their range.Bunyiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-70219046155045890762013-09-25T08:13:02.260+10:002013-09-25T08:13:02.260+10:00Professor; you make me wistful for that crystal cl...Professor; you make me wistful for that crystal clear water and the opportunity to spend a morning pottering around with a gold pan followed by an afternoon snoozing in the shade then collecting wood for a fire to heat my shower water before cooking dinner and spending the late evening listing to the night noises of the bush and gazing into the fire whilst sipping a single malt, then into the swag for a night unsullied by the sounds of civilisation. The High (and Low) Country is where my heart lives - we are *so* fortunate in Oz so, yes, let's not have city boys and girls legislating for an area and an a tranquillity they will never know and have no real care for or understanding of.<br /> Xericnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-66008291201541046282013-09-25T08:06:10.602+10:002013-09-25T08:06:10.602+10:00Prof, every soul needs its day contemplating natur...Prof, every soul needs its day contemplating nature's ebb and flow, putting aside the idiocies of the left, and eking out the small beer of simply sitting and watching in the moment as other living things live out their own day, in that great and unknown scheme of things, much as we do ours.<br /><br />And what a 'brilliantined' trout in that steady hand, Prof.<br />Got me all poetic, shades of Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood" with life's sap rising along with all the little egg-laying ladies of your glen: - ""Mrs. Rose Cottage's eldest, Mae, peels off her pink-and-white skin in a furnace in a tower in a cave in a waterfall in a wood and waits there raw as an onion for Mister Right to leap up the burning tall hollow splashes of leaves like a brilliantined trout" .Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-87008052262097183272013-09-25T07:16:59.423+10:002013-09-25T07:16:59.423+10:00Once FTTB (fibre to the bush) is connected it'...Once FTTB (fibre to the bush) is connected it'll be perfectAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-15405164489411584992013-09-25T07:04:05.331+10:002013-09-25T07:04:05.331+10:00Doesn't look like a Sydney blue-tongue, Profes...Doesn't look like a Sydney blue-tongue, Professor. Do they make them differently down there?<br /><br />PeterTB<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-57292796044942086942013-09-25T06:30:18.524+10:002013-09-25T06:30:18.524+10:00Good to see you catching those pesky, invasive fis...Good to see you catching those pesky, invasive fish species, trout, Prof. Help save the beautiful water dragon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-11158898138446272202013-09-25T05:46:38.467+10:002013-09-25T05:46:38.467+10:00It's said that they also surf who only stand a...It's said that they also surf who only stand and wait, so the same could probably apply to other water-related past-times.<br /> <br />I suggest, Professor, that you get the tent out today and heed the Biblical injunction: "Ye shall sew what ye ripped". The Old and Unimproved Davenoreply@blogger.com