posted by [identity profile] numbat.livejournal.com at 07:07am on 10/12/2003
If you don't have the energy perhaps instead you might like to ponder that in Remarkable Names Of Real People, compiled by John Train he lists somebody called Original Bug as being mention in the Liverpool Echo (but not what year unfortunately).
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 07:21am on 10/12/2003
Ah yes, pondering is easy. Original Bug sounds like one of these bizarre spammer names people are using these days.

Thank you for the beautiful card BTW (talking of feathers) - it also goes very well in the living room! I always thought of Australia as more lush and verdant because of all the amazing plants you have (and the ability to grow pineapples in your back garden), but I guess that comes from seeing the plants in isolation instead of against a background of dry dust.
 
posted by [identity profile] numbat.livejournal.com at 04:31pm on 10/12/2003
There are lush tropical places in Australia and there are some spots which seemingly have no shortage of water. They make up only a small part of this very large island though. I've travelled out west, past Canberra and spent as much as six hours on the road without seeign a house or a tree, just dry brown grass and the occasional fence. Out there for most of the year the native birds are the only colour.

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