Specializing in meats raised on native pasture since 2010.
Joined January 2009
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Jun 14
When you marry a dancer from southern California (the @agricultrix), music like this becomes part of your family culture. Impressed to see the hustle, JCVD. This was four years before Bloodsport.
Jun 13
Jean-Claude Van Damme showing up as an enthusiastic background dancer in cult classic Breakin’ (1984) will never not be funny. 🤣😂
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Jun 14
Woke up, and at some point I checked the World Cup scores. Scotland had won and for some reason these ancient incantations, unheard by me since childhood, came into my head.
And we'll really shake them up
When we win the World Cup
Cause Scotland is the greatest football team.
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Jun 14
Man, where had that been hiding? I looked up the song. It is Andy Cameron singing Ally's Tartan Army and it is awful. Yet it lives on in my brain, untended for 48 years.
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Jun 14
As a rugby fan, I only pay attention to the soccer when it is the World Cup, but then it is the greatest sporting event on the planet. Entire countries' bragging rights are on the line; mess up and it might be decades before you score a goal again.
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Jun 3
I saw some video with a non-real Aussie accent so I need to clear the air by putting a real one on. Plus I get to do the edgy thing of having an external link in the first tweet because I don't want engagement, I'm on smoko.
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May 31
The pasture is a bit of a mess up here, but the herd eats it all. A few chicory stems will remain.
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May 31
Yesterday's aftermath with the chicory stems evoking Passchendaele.
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May 26
A photo under the wire showing a cross-section of the pasture plants.
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May 26
This place looks awesome. I like French design, even the French pre-dreadnoughts. The problem with housing estates is the same as the problem with all housing until you get on a farm - your neighbors are too close.
May 25
Was curious as to where to Gilliam's Brazil was shot and it turns out a great deal of it was not on a soundstage, but at some fucked up housing estate in France that just looks like this
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May 22
Second fave bureaucracy story: I switched universities for my Honours degree and to take classes to fill in some missing pre-reqs (e.g. graphics, compilers) would have been difficult for them and expensive for me. So they had me crash the courses without enrolling.
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May 22
I did all the work and exams and got graded. The profs knew what was going on. Nothing made it on to my academic transcript but the school was happy and so was I. Thanks to the guy who organised that, I hope he is enjoying a happy retirement in Sydney.
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May 16
We have a cow called Soup Dragon, born a few years back when it was an S name year. Now 2026 is a B year, and true to The Clangers her calf is called Baby Soup Dragon.
#TheClangers
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May 10
We have a couple of good local radio stations that play French music, and my fave is Voix de l'Armagnac. Lots of brass, accordions and songs popular once upon a time. If you're driving around our rural French roads you might as well listen to stuff you'd not hear in the USA.
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May 10
With the magic of the internet you can listen to Voix de l'Armagnac from anywhere in the world. No ads either, just an occasional recorded message.
radio-vda.fr/ecoute.html
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May 9
Grass here is getting tall. This will be grazed in a couple of weeks.
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May 9
We had visitors who had a son who refused to read, would not read at school or home. I showed him my copy of AD&D Deities and Demigods and the dude spent the whole visit reading it, so I let him keep the book. Not sure if the parents learned anything from this.
May 9
it is possible that Moose is reading too much Asterix
other ancient deities he is lately invoking:
- Belenos
- Jupiter
- Isis
- Osiris
- Thor
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May 6
They bred a bird to move like a headless chicken while maintaining its head.
May 5
Thanks to an unbearable Australian children’s book series my kids are obsessed with, I’ve learned of the parlor roller pigeon, an abomination against god that can’t fly as an adult, just “rolls,” by which they really mean “moves forth by violent, paroxysmal outburst”
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