Terramungamine

Photos of the Terramungamine Stones on the Macquarrie River. There are dozens of these rock outcrops along the river in this area.

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These stones show the grooves left by the local Mund-gah clan as they sharpened their axes and spears, and ground the seeds for flour. "Ground Edge" technology is one of the oldest in the world and was a development of the "struck stone" tools. The Aborigines decided banging the rocks together was a little too crude.

The Terramungamine stones show use dating back 5000 years. This is a sigificant, but not sacred, site and is open to the public.

Livejournal Analysis

Found via ngarewyrd

It's essentially a look at your LJ statistics and comments on them. pretty lame.

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Galah

I could hear the squawks of a galah near the front door this afternoon. When I investigated I found the bird sitting on the front step, looking though the mesh door. It walked inside when I opened the door.

It sits on my hand, enjoys scritches and is very friendly. It's obviously an aviary escapee but I don't know where from since there are no large-parrot aviaries around here - it's all bugies for my neighbours. It's a juvenile: the feathers on its neck are fringed with grey.

The dogs investigated the bird immediately, but some judicious nips have given the bird a personal space of 1 metre on all sides. Poor Scruffy turned his back on the galah and it attacked him! It hung on to his tail while he ran in circles.

So now that we have established the pecking order (so to speak) the bird has settled into the back yard.

Now what do I do? I suspect it was raised in a small cage since it can't fly. It's "unreleasable" so technically I should euthanise it. And so I have. It has been euthanised into my back yard where it can hide in the trees.

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Thanks to lonita