So that's what's been stealing the tea-spoons, ripping the rubber off the car windscreen wipers, and screeching like tins going through a wood chipper.
The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
Who's a pretty boy then? says life as it knees you in the groin.
ReplyDeleteA kea versus Ikea: Home Improvement cage match
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For example, seven Kea were found dead following an aerial possum control operation at Fox Glacier in July 2008.
ReplyDeleteIt took a second reading for me to clue in to the fact that possums weren't dropped from the air to control the Kia population. That that did seem odd enough to me to beg a second reading is sadly comforting to me right now, as is the fact that this post was simple enough for me to get on the first reading.
Guard the kidneys, old chum!
ReplyDeleteI confess that that GIGANTIC font has bugged me for the better part of the century, but every now and then it leaves a small bucket of serendipity amongst all the toxicity...
ReplyDeleteGuard the kidneys, old chum!
ReplyDeleteWith the keas on one hand and the bow-wielding unipeds and skraelings on the other, we're stuffed.
And that one idiot hobbit threw the best weapon in the volcano.
ReplyDeleteHe clearly was concerned about a war crimes trial in The Hague...
ReplyDeleteI've been called "the clown of the mountains," too,which is weird cuz I don't even live in the mountains plus I am a very serious person.
ReplyDeleteUh pink ears, ma'am, just sayin'
ReplyDeleteI am as god made me, sir.
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