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  2. Sitting Small

     

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  4. Post Odyssey.

     

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  6. Flying Foxes cover the banks of the Yarra. Hanging in the trees like strange fruit with nocturnal hunting habits. Thousands of these creatures used to hang out in the grounds of the Botanical Gardens but people got fed up and decided to evict them and move them several kilometers upstream.

    A number of techniques will be used to encourage the
    flying-foxes to leave the Gardens. Typically, flying-
    foxes dislike sudden, loud noises or fast-moving
    objects near them. So, most of the dispersal
    techniques used in the Gardens will involve noise (eg.
    banging on sheet metal, air horns, track and field
    starters’ pistols, recorded noises) and movement (eg.
    flags on the ends of long bamboo poles, large helium
    balloons). 

     

  7. Yesterday I ended up riding down a badly overgrown quasi track by the banks of the Yarra and stumbled upon a big patch of wild garlic. I collected a bag full and put it in a Bolognese last night and washed it down with a bottle of red. In fact it was more like a chilli con carne with spaghetti.