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in other bad news

UK approve "emergency" use of neonicotinoids on monocultural sugar beet crops.

Emergency caused by who? Aphids? Sugar beet for what? Beef?

Neonicotinoid has six syllables, it must come from tobacco somehow.

Tobacco has millions of seeds and sticky leaves insects die on.

What sort of emergency does it take to start killing bees?

Bees are a very peaceful listen in early morning sun.

Keep a patch of salvias near your washing line 

so you can listen to their hum while pegging clothes.

And study interesting wasps, they are always appearing.

It's baby pumpkin time. Will bees find their blooms? I hope the rats don't.

I hope they grow big enough to eat (not the rats, the pumpkins).

Bees or no, pollinating pumpkins is fun. Break off a stamen

from a male flower and then rub it on the female one.

crucial

 

three lists

People I saw smoking today:

Someone way up in the bucket of a cherry picker working at the top of a church tower.

(Have you ever seen a cherry picker picking cherries? They seem too big to me compared to cherry trees) 

A coles worker taking a break on a low brick fence with a very fat mate, both in red T-shirts. The smoker was cupping his smoke with his hand to light up.

Young red-headed bunnings worker taking a break just outside the garden goods delivery gate. 

Driving I listened to a two-dollar gang of four entertainment! second-hand cd (remastered 1995) and on Boundary Rd heard:

Light myself up a cigarette
Nicotine really goes to my head

Pigeon spikes I've seen since the day before yesterday:

• on the balcony of a corporate travel and leisure agency
• above the door of a real estate agent
• atop a Tuxan shoe repair sign and
• a thai massage sign in an alcove of an old radio retailer.

Bags of bean sprouts I saw yesterday: At the doorstep of an Asian supermarket.

a future of grey lozenges

source: Australia's whole-of-economy Long-Term Emissions Reduction Plan,
Australian Government Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources.

more banter

- I was made for loving you baby, you were made for loving me --
  Please don't put your nose hair on my vanilla. (Pause.) Quote of the day.
- It's all a quote of the day with you, pookie.