Thick Knees in Australia

Right in the middle of Brisbane we came across a couple of these fellows lurking in the undergrowth. In the city botanical gardens, which are quite small and surrounded by large office blocks we spotted them,  poised to do something, we’re not quite sure what. They are known as Bush Stone Curlews, also called Bush Thick Knees, about knee high (my knees!) and nobody else seemed to have spotted them so well were they camouflaged. They had a peculiar trick of dropping their heads to one side as if to listen for bombers overhead and a most interesting low buzzing sound which was their contribution to the wildlife sounds of the city.

 Nice selection of in house brewed beer at the Brewhouse Brisbane on Thursday night! The American Pale Ale went down well as did the Lady Marmalade Apricot Amber Ale but the surprise to us was the presence, among lots of Aussie beers, of bottles of Buxton Brewery ales - how did they get here??

Rigorous performance analysis of our latest parkrun at South Bank Brisbane has revealed that factors such as the high humidity, size of field (400+ runners), a viral affliction during previous week and lack of knowledge of the course, cannot alone account for the dismal time of 21.17 and the key overriding factor was eventually scientifically determined to be general malaise and shortage of energy due to a lack of beer the night before. Vicky suffered too and came in with a time of 34.42.