Admiral Puff

skipping the buffalo contributions

They're supposed to, but just lately it doesn't seem to be working. We've had a mouse plague in this part of the world, to the point where I was looking at getting a diamond python ("carpet snake") and installing it in the ceiling to keep the little buggers under control.The local population (copperheads, browns and the occasional red-bellied black) didn't seem to be having any effect. The python is a constrictor, and so non-venomous, and lives quite happily in the midst of humans. However, the plague seems to have moved on, so that the need for such drastic measures disappeared too.

or the karzi because

These days the funnelweb doesn't trouble me - Attrax robustus prefers the coast, where the humidity is much higher. The low humidity is one of the things that makes summer here quite tolerable. Never seen a redback here, either, in the four years I've been up here. The huntsman, or wolf spider, is here in droves, but he's big, hairy and harmless. He'll give you a nip if he's cornered, but although it will sting a bit it won't do much more. Leave him alone and he'll return the compliment, and keep your small bugs down as well. Joe Blakes, on the other hand ...

Monarch of all I survey - and you'd better believe it! I do imperious very well, don't I?

down to the Palais

but quite easily avoided

and other unmentionable parts

sealed, countersigned and notarised

to those with appropriate

right hand thread farnarkles

on odd numbered Fridays

You're right! I had to get my 111C out of the Warehouse of Doom to check - always causes traumas ...

around the lace holes

Well, ICM has done the early ones in 1:72 ... just not all that well. Hopefully they'll (a) up the scale to 1:48 and (b) make sure everything fits together properly! A Lufthansa 'C would be brilliant!