Cornucopia of Parrots
Posted 8 January 2009 in Random Photographs by Catriona
This evening brought many more parrots than usual flocking to the palm tree:
I know: still nothing to do with books. But, while the book I’ve been re-reading my way through today—Andrew King’s The London Journal, 1845-83: Periodicals, Production and Gender—is a fascinating and extremely important book, especially for anyone with any interest in serial publication in the Victorian period, in penny weeklies (it is the only full-length academic account of these journals yet published), in reader-response theory, or in theories of textual consumption, especially among those groups of readers (such as the working class) whose experiences used to be considered unrecoverable, it’s not the sort of book I normally blog about, especially on a day that hasn’t been as productive as it should have been.
So, instead, let’s all marvel at how cute birds are when they’re eating upside down, and wonder how they’re able to eat upside down, when I tend to choke just trying to drink on a slight incline.
Seriously—I don’t intend the blog to become an image blog, but neither do I want to get into the habit of skipping too many days: a picture of birds eating is a nice step on my current path towards finding a compromise between my blogging and my (unpaid, because I’m currently unemployed, but vital, if I ever want to be employed) academic writing.
I’ll make it up to people who want something a little more word-intensive by starting my real-time blogging of season one of Doctor Who this weekend.
Share your thoughts [7]
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Matthew Smith wrote at Jan 8, 11:43 am
I was happy to see a pair of Pale Headed Rosellas at my place the other day. The rainbow lorikeets tend to survive better in suburbia as they are more aggressive breeders. The rosellas and the endangered scaly breasted lorikeets breed less, don’t travel in packs and are vulnerable to predation by large birds such as crows because suburbia doesn’t offer the kind of dense shelter trees that bushland offers. But I still like rainbow lorikeets.
I think they are re-broadcasting Torchwood in the next few weeks too. Not sure which season.
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Catriona wrote at Jan 8, 12:17 pm
Ooh, Torchwood? Is that a hint? Or, perhaps, it would be more polite to say, a suggestion?
It would be nice to live-blog Torchwood, since it would be a genuine live-blogging, whereas this blogging of Doctor Who would be at best real-time blogging rather than live-blogging.
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Catriona wrote at Jan 8, 12:18 pm
And, now I’ve checked that link you added, that pale-headed rosella was the one I saw in my garden a few months ago, wasn’t it? I love those—they look like enormous budgies.
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Kirsty wrote at Jan 8, 01:15 pm
‘(unpaid, because I’m currently unemployed, but vital, if I ever want to be unemployed)’
Is this a Freudian slip or some pointed commentary on the scarcity of academic jobs? It works either way : )
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Catriona wrote at Jan 8, 01:26 pm
Damn! I blame the humidity.
Pointed commentary aside, I might go and change that before Tim notices . . .
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Tim wrote at Jan 9, 04:32 am
Wouldn’t you need to edit the comments as well, to cover your tracks? :p
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Catriona wrote at Jan 9, 04:52 am
Technically, yes, but then I worry that that would make the commenter look mad. So I’m really only covering my tracks for people who read the entries but can’t be bothered to read the comments.
Is not life about compromise?
;)