Christmas...Arrrrgh!

I just collated the christmas presents I've bought for this year. Andrea's is about the only complete one (and I have her birthday present for next year done too. Everyone else is a bit spotty...though I do have a theme idea.

A first for today

I was down the back cleaning up all the dropped mangoes (mainly eaten by flying foxes) when I noticed the awful smell...Dead flying fox in the back yard. We've had trees for 40 years, had flying foxes visit and eat them for almost as long and this is the first dead one. I'm a little dubious given the spreading Hendra zone this season. It could be natural causes, but I aint picking it up with anything but a long shovel straight into a pit.