Comments on: What I didn’t do on my holiday

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:21:23 +0000

I’m just so over the date this was published. All I wanted to say is you would have a better chance of communing with nature as it starts to get dark or AM when it starts to get light.

A warm, cosy pup-tent, a V V warm sleeping capsule, two-three thermos-flasks of what you like imbibing, some really thick and yummy sandwiches go down a treat, a torch-so you don’t trip up, a book for when nothing turns up and instructions to the family not to allow the animals out of the house-for they will find you. Perhaps something a tad larger than a pup-tent?

By: Mark Lever

Mark Lever — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:36:49 +0000

This is what you missed on holidays:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/rare-white-wallaby-captured-in-snap/1543943.aspx

Clearly under-employed it its current role, just mooching around the snowfields like many others who can and should have better things to do.

I think he’s well suited to a senior role in firstblog enterprises.

Is there a vacancy?

By: callmeishmael

callmeishmael — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:46:23 +0000

hello firstdog!

i felt compelled to register an account on the crikey blogs network in order to make this comment. i apologise that it has little to do with colourful little houses or geckos.

i was recently in my kitchen, reading my calendar while waiting for the kettle to boil. i made some tea and brought it to my homeofficebedroom, where i now sit. anyway, what i want to say is congratulations on your political insight with regard to flapdoodle the 13th of june!

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:29:20 +0000

I’m devastated! FD – had you winged it 90 mins out of Melbourne you’d have been here in Hastings Point, paradise of the nation. A smorgasbord of tamed and wild magpies, currawongs and eastern seabord birdlife PLUS estuary creatures never seen before in ‘your neck of the woods’! Now & then I’ll send the pix of paradise lost…and next time think outside the state you’re in – we do have a teeny insight into IT telecommunications. Admittedly its crummy.

By: rmacfarl

rmacfarl — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:52:50 +0000

Dear Firstdog,

I’m disappointed! I shouldn’t need to remind you that there are no crows in Mt Martha – only ravens, as you sagely observed in your December ‘08 missive on the White Winged Chough. For shame!

But I forgive you, since you included a crested shrike-tit in your speed-dating cartoon. Along with the chough, that gives you of my top 5 all-time favourite Australian birds! Now if I can just get you to blog on malleefowl (they are so wonderful: look up http://www.malleefowlvictoria.org.au and you’ll see) and grey grasswrens, and I’ll have the full set.

Enjoy your holiday…

P.S. Yes I realise that’s only 4, but with about 800 birds to choose from I have to keep my options open. Actually the 5th spot is reserved for the mallee emu-wren (stipiturus mallee) but I can’t count it because I haven’t seen one yet… :-)

[Firstdog - Crows, everywhere crows!]