Mozzies
With the warm weather coming in Orange we should all prepare to wage a nightly battle against attacks by waves of mozzies, enemies of a good night’s sleep, who are itching to get at you.
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They breed wherever there’s still water, and the warm weather following all the rain we’ve had sets up the best possible conditions. They’ve already launched attacks around the district with golfers at Canowindra claiming the mozzies were so thick this week they flew away with the balls. Mozzies are pretty fussy little critters, carefully selecting their victims to attack because some of us invite them to bite while others never get nipped.
One theory is they’re attracted more to blondes and redheads who are likely to stand out in a crowd while other research suggests they could be drawn to people wearing dark colours such as navy, black and blue. And if you’ve had a few beers at a barbecue, as you do, you’re another preferred target because alcohol increases body temperature and that attracts the buzzing pests. But to help us combat the pests, the avagoodweegend company Aeroguard has a website called mozzieindex.com.au that forecasts mozzie activity. The risk is ‘moderate’ for us this week.
NSW greyhounds
Those two greyhounds Stop Press overheard talking last week at the Wade Park gates were excitedly chatting again this week. “It’s great news we’re not going to be topped,” one says. “Best *%#@ news for months,” says the other. “The @#?% premier has done the right #*@^+ thing for a change.”
“So now you can settle down without having to swear anymore.” “You’re @#?% right. My owner didn’t *%#@ swear at all until we were @#*># banned and then he #%+@ starting talking like that all the time because he was %#@* shattered.” “The premier says the industry has to change and that means us too, so you have to stop swearing now.” “Yeah, you’re @#?% right. Whoops. Sorry. I promise I can change and I won’t *#~%*@ swear again.”
Yawning room
It would be interesting to know how a yawning room in a Woolloomooloo art gallery is going, set up after the Australia Council gave $20,000 to an artist to induce boredom when looking at art. But just thinking and reading about yawning makes you yawn. So have you yawned yet? There’s lots of things that can bring on boredom and make you yawn without the help of a $20,000 arts grant like navigating potholes in Orange streets. Long waits at traffic lights burning up fuel. And what about being stuck at the Anson St pedestrian crossing. That’s enough to make anyone yawn waiting for Brown’s cows to wander across one after the other. So have we got a boring lifestyle or what? Yawn!
Borenore Caves
Signs on the Escort Way at the Borenore Caves entrance that say ‘Borenore Karst Conservation Reserve’ have baffled motorists for some time. Some thought the people who made them didn’t know how to spell caves but karst is an area of irregular limestone where erosion has produced fissures, sinkholes, underground streams and caverns. Borenore has a series of limestone caves renowned for their karst qualities because they’re totally surrounded by volcanic rock that flowed from eruptions at nearby Mt Canobolas.