Belatedly sharing this:
In response to this:
Just a quick reality check for anyone down here at the bottom of Africa who thinks that we are in any way important globally.
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Success Page
I might only have had a little one, but believe it or not, I bought an even smaller one yesterday. Having paid the bill, I got this:
I quite like the idea of a Success Page. It’s much better than the Constant Disappointment Page just to its right.
I’m going to play with my tiny one in the National Park later this evening.
Little one
Let’s be honest about this: mine is nowhere as big as some people’s. And I doubt that it will ever get that big.
But size isn’t important – it’s how you use it that matters, right?
Right?
Anyway, that’s why I popped my small one out earlier in the back garden and pointed it skyward. Right at this little fellow.
Here’s a bigger version. And here’s a different angle.
He’s a Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura) and that ridiculous tail is his way of attracting Mrs Pin-tailed Whydah. And wow – doesn’t he just like to flaunt it?
He’s backwards and forwards across the neighbourhood hoping for a bit of nookie from first light through to sunset, and he’s a chatty little bastard as well. I’m not sure if his efforts have yielded any success yet, but if they have, then it’s very clear that he would like some more success please, Ma’am.
He’s even more spectacular in flight with a stiff… breeze blowing, but that wasn’t happening today. If I do spot him in those conditions, I’ll whip my small one out again and give it my best effort.
Blue Wall
Nothing here today because I walked the beagle all over the neighbourhood, painted a wall blue and braai’ed dinner – on a weekday, nogal. I know, right?
It’s freezing in Cape Town. I’m off to bed.
More on those horrendous Amazon forest fires
So much more awful than ever before, fueled by wood Bolsenaro’s policies and utterly cataclysmic for what’s left of the environment.
Or… er… pretty much the same as the last decade and a half.
As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.) Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data.
It’s blatant hyperbole.
Again.
Once more for those at the back, I’m not saying that the fires are a good thing, or that we shouldn’t be concerned at the damage they are doing. I’m merely saying that what the green-leaning environMENTAList media are telling us isn’t exactly the gospel truth. The fires they should be more anxious about are the ones in their pants.