Temperature

[happy daze john in oz]

All politicians and academics interested in our climate will find page 217 of Professor Wolfgang Behringers book A Cultural History of Climate Change of interest.
Professor Behringer has studied the last 5 million years in general and the last 5000 years in detail. His understanding of climate changes is outstanding .
His Conclusion? The climate is changing. The climate has always changed. False Prophets and moral entrepreneurs have constantly tried to profit from this. If the changes taking place today prove to be long term... we can only advise everyone to keep calm. The world will not come to an end. If it becomes warmer we will get used to it. Taken from a readers letter 6.12. 2016 JS

And there is the problem John, politicians who have no concept of how to handle money, of course it is not their's anyway, so they introduce additional taxes on what they call climate change and use the term to frighten half the population.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Cappy.
Not sure if you said the birds are saving the berries for jan or for jam; either way they will have a good feed.
Lots of berries mean a bad winter coming up, snails crawling up your house walls means heavy rain coming, same if ants start to come inside.
The months before Xmas there are usually hundreds of cockatoos and Major Mitchel's around here; none so far,maybe there is plenty of feed out west, but we have some blackbirds that have just come here, so beautiful to listen to in the evening; especially after the terrific storm that we had last night which seems to have cleared the air. There are also Bell birds that are plentiful up the Central Coast and down the South Coast.
As for Tem's, Burke has had temps of 47 for days and this is the first weeks of summer, much the same as they have had in previous years, though the the heat this year on the coastal fringes has started a little earlier. Cappy you wouldn't want to have been in Adelaide in the last week or so.
Cheers Des

[j.sabourn]

#32... Jim has the tree died. And have the council this year got plenty of stockpiles of sand and grit for the roads. Never ever saw the council where I lived ready. Always the excuse they weren't expecting bad weather. Maybe they didn't hear Al Gore shouting it from the roof tops. Although he was probably told it from the Greenies, so was only a well paid job for him. In the past he would of been walking around with sandwich boards saying the end is near, not so well paid as of today. The white cockatoos eat all the grapes off my grapevine so have to keep chasing them off. Birds are the same as most animals and will come where they know there is food and water. But the same as humans if they get sick of one restaurant will go to another. Anybody getting worried about the state of the political world today and thinking of digging themselves a Nucleur shelter will have to think twice about the drainage of water from. If the sea rises as some nitwits have claimed maybe better to build an Ark instead. Or playing it safe build both. Cappy has already built his. In the case of your tree, maybe that darned Woody Woodpecker has been around again. Cheers Merry Xmas and try and stay sober until midnight this new years eve, this is always the advice I get, on the 1st January. Good Resolutions no longer make as time is too precious to eff around with. JS

[cappy]

Hi Cappy.
Not sure if you said the birds are saving the berries for jan or for jam; either way they will have a good feed.
Lots of berries mean a bad winter coming up, snails crawling up your house walls means heavy rain coming, same if ants start to come inside.
The months before Xmas there are usually hundreds of cockatoos and Major Mitchel's around here; none so far,maybe there is plenty of feed out west, but we have some blackbirds that have just come here, so beautiful to listen to in the evening; especially after the terrific storm that we had last night which seems to have cleared the air. There are also Bell birds that are plentiful up the Central Coast and down the South Coast.
As for Tem's, Burke has had temps of 47 for days and this is the first weeks of summer, much the same as they have had in previous years, though the the heat this year on the coastal fringes has started a little earlier. Cappy you wouldn't want to have been in Adelaide in the last week or so.
Cheers Des

####hi des aniteresting view from you on the seasons birds etc .......i sometimes think that when the harvests are good ie lots of fruit on trees and berries galore it is from the previous summers gooode weather .....heat in the uk... and some rain in oz... but that is just me tending to look at things from all views .....we have had just a couple of heavy frosts up to press and this week temps of 12 centigrade which is not normal for dec in uk ......while driving up a country lane yesterday ... a huge bird dropped from the sky with a rabbit onto the roadside it was a red kite .....we have hundreds of them in yorkshire now .....they were nearly extinct only a few years ago........regards cappy

[Brian Charles Williams]

I recall a time when in Aden a young first trip pantry boy got terrible sun burn across his shoulders ,blisters like a mountain range from shoulder to shoulder. Because of the pain he couldn`t turn to so was logged for `self inflicted wounds` ....BCW.

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We here in Adelaide Des have not had any temps. over 40o this year....unusual but still over 3 weeks to go until end of 2016 !!

[Captain Kong]

Hi John S.
I saw those Cockatoos eating your grapes at the Barbie at your house last year.
I have been in a Pet Store here and Cockatoos are £1,500 each.
Catch the Cockatoos and ship them over here and you will make a fortune.
A Black Cockatoo would bring in More than that.
Cheers
Brian

[cappy]

Hi John S.
I saw those Cockatoos eating your grapes at the Barbie at your house last year.
I have been in a Pet Store here and Cockatoos are £1,500 each.
Catch the Cockatoos and ship them over here and you will make a fortune.
A Black Cockatoo would bring in More than that.
Cheers
Brian

great idea we could form a company ...get a cock or two here unlimited.........cappy

[j.sabourn]

Are you allowed to say Black Cockatoo, shouldn't you be saying a dark plumaged Cockatoo. Wonder what you would get if you crossed them a khaki one perhaps. Have you noticed that nearly all animals apart from donkeys perhaps, always stick to their own, and don't cross breed like humans, perhaps they know something we don't. Why doesn't a lion mate with a tiger, has this got anything to do with a cock or two. When Cappy starts loading up his Ark will have to mind every pair of animals he embarks are of different sexes, although today that will be a hard job, as may be following man and are bi-sexual. You will have to get them to perform Cappy before they go onboard to prove they can multiply, as well as add, divide and do long division. Anyhow 2 dozen black cockatoos on their way guaranteed to lay eggs, they have already proved themselves. Cheers JS PS still cant find this emu you promised to marry. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Cappy.
Used to be Red Kites around the hills near us when I was a lad but as you say they were nearly hunted to extinction, glad to see that they are increasing with help, farmers are always talking about keeping the vermin down, like foxes and the like, but then they go and kill off the animals that do it for free.
Nine big BLACK cockatoos flew over yesterday, be a few bob's worth there, wouldn't like to tackle them with those beaks take your twinkle off in a twinkle.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

It some times follows that if we get a bad winter here in the southern hemisphere the north will also get one. We had a stinker this year, June to mid November was the coldest for 40 years and the wettest for about 35. Temps as low as 12 degrees is not good I have to tell you.

Many of the regular birds such as thecockortwo are not in the normal spots just now, feed for them in their winter habitat is so good they have not yet moved into summer areas.

But doubt we wil get a very hot summer this year, temps in the Alice have not been very high, only a handful of days of 40 or so. we need the heat in the centre to spread to the other parts of the country. To get a really good hot summer the Alice needs to the low 30's by early September, but not this year.