BILL--your efforts to keep the blog alive are HERCULEAN; where is the rest of the "team"? I apologize for my absence--busy, busy, but also doing some "bushwalking". Did not see a WOMBAT (but saw one at the zoo--was name chosen with regard to Oz at all?) but did see KOALA (took several hours to spot him high in the tops of the eucalyptus trees and really, during the day, these critters are quite boring; we made noise and he looked up and scratched his ear!) and KANGAROO (huge "mob" of long-legged hopping deer--one with joey in pouch! Did not care that we came near) and WALLABY (small 'roos who seem to travel solo, more curious). So much for the fauna on my trip to WESTERN VICTORIA. And doesn't that adjective, Victorian, just conjur up images of repressed sexuality? Weird connections are activated in my brain, hearing it everyday makes my life absurd.

more later.