Disco Knitter » Animals http://lara.nettle.org/blog Knit One, Hug One.... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Pics from the last few weeks http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/11/24/pics-from-the-last-few-weeks http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/11/24/pics-from-the-last-few-weeks#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:13:33 +0000 lara http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/11/24/pics-from-the-last-few-weeks

Banana smiles at Pearl Beach

Happy to see his birthday trampoline

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Paining at playgroup

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Trying on Bonnies goblin mask

Meerkats!

Hot and happy

Feeding the giraffes – a bit scared

Of this!

A wallaby taking a dip

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Koala hanging about

Just having fun!

There were emus

And a bunny

A very friendly echidna

A pretty parrot

Another meerkat on watch

Happy to be allowed an icy pole

The lemurs and the lemur keeper

On safari

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Ducks and ducklings

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A dip to cool down

Ricotta hotcakes for breakfast

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We dipped our toes into the Macquarie River

We saw the hippo, and we saw him take a long underwater stroll

Inigo and Ursula got glittered in a mall – just because I spoke bad Italian, and the make up woman was Italian, and very sweet

And my adorable husband is starting to look like Huggy Bear, the pimp from Starsky and Hutch.

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]]> http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/11/18/on-the-road/feed 3 Pearl Beach weekend http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/11/13/pearl-beach-weekend-2 http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/11/13/pearl-beach-weekend-2#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:03:29 +0000 mark http://lara.nettle.org/blog/?p=2927 #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; }

Mark went snorkelling to see what he could see – and he found this amazing sting ray, just off the beach! He got some video too, but it hasn’t been uploaded yet.

And our favourite moment of the weekend was Alex and Inigo splashing together in the surf and playing surf rescue :)

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Click here to take a quiz to see if you can “see through the spin”.

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Ogden the Octopus.

And I got my results – 12/12 for Human Judgment and Decision Making, 93/100 for Psych 102. Phew!

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Mark and I did heaps of snorkelling in Fiji, as well as snorkeling from the island, we did a one day tour with the promise of a glass bottomed boat, but most of the coral around the island we visited was dead, so we were pretty dissapointed. The one highlight was feeding the fish, which I felt terribly guilty about – but it was very fun. The fish were all around me, and a few missed the bread and tried to get bits of finger. The good news is that they cleaned up my burn wound nicely…

]]> http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/05/11/fish-frenzy/feed 1 The odd couple? http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/04/16/the-odd-couple http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/04/16/the-odd-couple#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:22:57 +0000 lara http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/04/16/the-odd-couple Wilbur and Angel

Wilbur and Angel are looking for a home. If you live in Melbourne, and are looking for the oddest couple of cats ever, let me know.

If it wasn’t for the fact that we are saving pennies for Fiji, and I swore never to have a feline in my life ever again, I would sooooo adopt these guys…

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]]> http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/03/04/need-a-laugh/feed 0 Finding the Study Hard Going http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/02/25/finding-the-study-hard-going http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/02/25/finding-the-study-hard-going#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:20:04 +0000 lara http://lara.nettle.org/blog/2011/02/25/finding-the-study-hard-going But does teaching my bird how to do a trick using positive reinforcement count as homework?

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