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[Morgan]

Sorry I missed your birthday, Stuart. Hope it was a good one. Here's to a little spiced rum in you tea cup after the tea and lovely cake.
Stay well, and warm. Morgan

[pommystuart]

Thanks.

[Hanibal94]

Sea lion interrupts interview about "plague of sea lions"

[Randi]

[jil]

He just wanted the right to reply!

[AvastMH]

He just wanted the right to reply!

That's fair enough by me!

[pommystuart]

FYI

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-09/ ... 100244736?

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

Nice find Stuart I wonder if he went to the same weather recording school as the staff on the Patterson?

[jil]

Interesting article - at least the handwriting isn't too bad!

[Randi]

Did a Cuttlefish Write This?
Octopuses and squid are full of cephalopod character. But more scientists are making
the case that cuttlefish hold the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence.

[AvastMH]

Did a Cuttlefish Write This?
Octopuses and squid are full of cephalopod character. But more scientists are making
the case that cuttlefish hold the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence.

I think you have a point there Randi And with so many arms their typing rate must be phenomenal

[Randi]

Goats are California's secret weapon to fending off wildfires amid worsening drought

[AvastMH]

Hurrah for hungry goats

[Randi]

Good thing to keep in mind....
Your garden hose could contain a serious hazard in the summer

[Caro]

The strangest thing I've seen on Twitter today.
Australia wins.



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[AvastMH]

Nice reminder Randi - ouch. Never thought about the boiling water that must be building up in a hose pipe


That map - Did they do it by 'pin the tail on the donkey'?

[Randi]

Caro's map is a Gall–Peters projection

[Randi]

Mixing trees and crops can help both farmers and the climate

[Caro]

That map - Did they do it by 'pin the tail on the donkey'?

I have no idea what the point of it is.
Lisbon is now the capital of Spain and Madrid, logically I suppose, is now the capital of Portugal.
London is north of somewhere called Bringmeham and Oxford has moved way south.
The UK and Denmark etc are separated by the Barents Sea. Denmark' s capital is Legoland.