September 27, 2009 – 6:00 am
When the vicious Gingernut Cox was introduced to this country by a thoughtless tourist early in the last century
not only did thumbs suffer but the humble Wild Gingernut was driven to extinction. The interloper will stop at nothing to get at the food it craves.
However, Archie informed me yesterday that gingernuts still live in the [...]
A certain visitor sees mermaids wherever he goes. Here; in the desert; absolutely everywhere ……….
……. let’s play along with him …… he doesn’t get out much.
Here are two poems for him.
Ode to a mermaid
There’s at least one advantage it seems to me
Of being a mermaid, and that’s housemaid’s knee.
Although danger lurks of being de-scaled
When scrubbing [...]