What the hell, August?

[blamebrampton]

I swear to you it was August the first three minutes ago!

The month in notes: Erised story 5000 words in. Two new garden beds created. No ad staff murdered. No one else dead. Wedding of nice friends! Stomach ulcer mostly under control. Month flown by.

BUT, I bring you all a wacky Australian news story. Because it's what we do. The Australian, Murdoch's 'serious' paper here (once good, now mostly tin-hat), ran a story:



This was the official Australian Unions Twitter response:



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[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

Apropos of not very much, I recall a conversation with an Australian colleague, who remarked rather bitterly that the only coverage of Australia on the BBC was about wacky animals. I kept an eye out for a bit to see if he was right, and while there were pieces about mining and political infighting, the majority of the coverage was indeed about wacky animals.