Just a zoo keeper, really.

When no one's here during the school week, and all's quiet, I've discovered a few creatures about the back yard.

I spied another Blue Tongue lizard. I think, Posie suggested I feed them banana. So I did. I ran inside and chopped banana and ran back outside again and scattered banana about.

 

 

The two Blue Tongue lizards I've seen in the last week are quite amusing because they freeze and pretend they're dead, and the moment you turn your back, they move ever-so-slightly, so as to watch your movements.

Yes, I should be doing an assignment.

 And we've a youngish kookaburra who has started to visit. It's quite audacious and flies right onto the covered deck and scares me into thinking it's going to peck out my eyes.

 

So I let the youngest child approach it.

I think there's some argy-bargy going on between the kookaburra and the butcher birds.

 Here it is again today. It's very cute and it looks as if its mother has crimped its feathers with a crimping iron.

It spied a tiny worm and swooped on it before I could say 'carnivore', and it killed the bacon I gave it by whacking the rind against a pole.

I feel like a zoo keeper with so much wildlife about.

So I had a cup of tea, but took the caramel slice out of the fridge before it had set.

It's not easy being a master chef. Even Heston cops criticism. He looks a bit 'Cindy Brady meets Elvis'.