Genghiscon 2021 is open for business

Not that they seem to have told anyone, maybe they made an announcement on FB or something?

https://sites.grenadine.co/sites/genghiscon/en/genghiscon2021/register

edit: At this time, though, the Paypal link to booking the accommodation at the college doesn’t work, click on the Submit Booking Request button instead of Make Payment and the college will email you a form to send back. Use the email address ON the form, not the one that sends it to you.

 My wasp trap has trapped it's first catch! It's a blowie. 

Western Australians! Is your suburb affected?

 Western Australians! Is your suburb affected?

https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/european-wasp/2019-20-nest-numbers-and-locations
Be on the look out for the black and yellow peril!

Adopt-a-Trap https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/european-wasp/european-wasp-adopt-trap-initiative – free (except for the bait – raw white fish) easy to install, I’ve just done mine.

The people at the Department of Primary Industries seem almost pathetically grateful to
anyone taking an interest.

And seeing as W.A is the only place in the world that’s fought them off for so long,
we should take a stand.

No one wants to drink one of these things from their drink can, or get swarmed
going past a concealed nest of them. Or see them displace perfectly reasonable
endemic species.

 I have been asked to help with the beginners classes for the new Nyoongar language class term, which as a wedjela or if you like, nydiyang person who really hasn’t been learning for very long, and I feel very privileged and honoured to have this knowledge to share.

When our teacher asked if anyone spoke a second language, out of the class of 25 plus, no one put up their hand. Perhaps these people are learning the language of the boodjar they are standing on, with apparently no other language interests, because they feel a sense of responsibility, or to get closer to culture and country or out of interest. It just gave me a nice feeling to think that so many people were taking an Aboriginal language as their first second language.

It’s definitely a Djilba feeling sort of day. Such a short season, today could be more of a Kambarang.

You know it’s Djilba when these words become especially important

koolbardi – Australia magpie (deathchicken, murderbird…)

djankang – Red Wattlebird

balay – look out!

bakanabiny – being dangerous

noorook – egg

manga – nest

djet – flower

#5words #aboriginal #australia #indigenous #noongar #nungah #nyoongar

Blue Spotted Hawker? Who knew?

  I found out how to get a log in to iNaturalistAU as when I was originally setting up the iNaturalist I'd done it from the main site, through Google. All the iNaturalist sites talk to each other, but not all of them let you log in with Google, and AU is one of those. 

Okay...I asked on the forum and was given some lovely clear instructions that worked, basically put in a password on my iNaturalist settings. This translates across to the AU site so now I can do this https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?user_id=aliciasmith for you. I'm doggedly putting in all my photos of plants and critters I've taken since Google photos was a thing. Before that, well, we'll see. 

When I come to the Finland visit I'll enter it from the iNaturalist site I guess?

Because the iNaturalistAU site is part of The Atlas of Living Australia https://www.ala.org.au/ data that the collector has marked as having permissions (there are various copyrights you can mark stuff with without giving away the farm) is transferred to the Atlas of Living Australia.
You are the eyes on your bit of country and you're directly contributing to environmental science.

I just think it's fantastic! And people come along and tell you what those species are that you've always wondered about around the place. I'm not strong on plant and insect i.d but wow, now I'm getting pointers. Blue spotted hawker just sounds *cool*!

And if you're on Blogger you can set up a widget! https://leeceandherhappenings.blogspot.com/?zx=ff159969ab302c7a - of course if you're reading this on  Blogger you'll have already seen it. :-)

Can you run that by me again?

 Being able to go to the drive-in is really good ( and never more so than now in these pandem-eek! aware  times) and when it's a good movie it's a bonus! 

Tenet is a cool movie and extraordinary in its craftsmanship. I liked the characters and the plot was interestingly braided. There's very little greenscreening or cgi, and, no they're not running the film backwards, the actors are driving and walking backwards. Two takes, one backwards, one forwards. Worth reading the imdb and wiki entries for AFTER you've seen the film. Or is it before?

4 out of 5 neat and being taught to juggle by M C Escher on the Sid and Nancy Scale.

The most important distancing method.

Just spotted this from our nation's capital, graciously shared by the ABC News Coronavirus live blog. We don't have koalas in Western Australia, but we do have Drop Bears,  Carnifex elegans rather than C. robusta, but the same applies. Stay safe people!