Been Out of Circulation...

Just a quick Hi! to all my tribe friends as I have been way out of touch..
Unfortunately I have been ill & even missed out on our big performance for Cultural Night... :-(
On some mighty drugs now & getting there, so will try & keep in touch & post some pics soon!
:-)
Shirin

True Luv!

My latest pic in my album is in celebration of my having acquired my first ever Guinea-fowl!
I have always loved these birds...anything with a head(tiny) to body(round) ratio like that has gotta have ...um...personality!

Anyway, some friends of mine run a suburban wildlife management business...removing possums from roofs & rescuing snakes from washing machines etc and a coupla of weeks ago they were asked to remove this weird bird from a suburb that had been kinda rural, but was expanding..thus less room for 'wildlife'.
It turned out to be a feral male guinea-fowl who had obviously been surviving in the area for some time, but all on his own. I didn't want him to be euthanased, so as I am in a semi-rural area & we have chooks etc I said I would take him!

So Percy, as he is now known, spent the first couple of weeks in our chicken coop but not very happy as now he was locked-up as well!....meanwhile I was doing some net research, finding out as much as I could about guinea-fowl, learning that Percy was indeed a boy, and that they are generally fairly monogamous...So!...the search began for a girl!

Now, I don't know what subtle cues guinea-fowl might use to choose the 'love of their life', but my choice would have to do him :-)

So the other day I arranged a 'marriage' for Percy, and he now has Gertrude, a younger woman, but they appear to have taken to each other well.
After a few days 'honeymoon' together in the chicken coop to settle in, today they had their first day outside...they had a great time & were obviously so happy to be able to wander about selecting the best bits of grass & having a dust-bath together.
I was a bit concerned whether they would think of our place as home (Percy spent his first few days 'escaped' in the neighbours yard when we first got him), but this evening they wandered back on late sunset & settled down to sleep on top of the chicken coop!

I am so thrilled!
There is enough room around our place for them to wander around during the day & sleep safely at night, either on the chicken coop or in a tree...If Percy had lived wild for a few years already I guess he has the instincts to survive, and he appears to be protective of Gertrude already...
maybe they will even have 'keets' !(the name for guinea-fowl chicks)

:-)

Withdrawal Symptoms

...my darling Peg stopped on the Motorway at about midnight last weekend...!
I could pretty much work out what had gone wrong, (blew the reg/rec) but wasn't the kind of thing you could fix on the side of the road, without some electrical spares.
At least I had the mp3 to listen to while waiting for the towie! Luv my music on the bike..

So now I have been waiting for a week for my motie-bike...sob..and the weather is perfect!

To look on the bright side tho;
1) it has made me drive my car, which had a flat battery, so must have needed it,
2) the tow-truck driver was kinda cute & he asked me out for a drink at the pub!

:-)

Pet Dramas!

I was 'planning' to go to another festival last weekend, to let-it-all-out before Uni started again...but the Universe had other things in store for me.

Was feeling a bit crook & run-down before the weekend & was humming & ha-ing about going when my cat (Molly...photos are being technically difficult, so will be up soon I hope) got really sick on Thurs. It appears that she may have been bitten by a snake, a hazard in a rural area, and was basically paralysed, but luckily still breathing!
It was pretty bad for a while & very distressing for both her & me...but after a week in the vet hospital on a drip etc, she came home last night. VERY wobbly & second-hand but fighting to get better.
We don't know what type of bite/snake it was but not an Eastern Brown as she didn't display all the typical signs for a bite from one of those...sadly another cat in the vets had been bitten by one & it died.

And while Molly was at the vets, my friend Colleen's Staffy, Angus, somehow got tangled in his chain & dragged into the dam on their place by his 'girlfriend' Brigid, and luckily Colleen was right there, as he went down to the bottom with the chain...
She had to drag him out & resuscitate him as he was gone. I went to visit the 'patient' that afternoon & he stopped breathing again due to all the dam water & crap still in his lungs, so I have now performed mouth-to-nose on a dog!
(I wouldn't recommend the flavour).
We got him going again & rushed him off to the vets, where he spent the next few days in the cage right next to my Molly!
He has pnuemonia, but luckily is also now home but on lots of drugs...

So it was fated that I had to stay home on the weekend for very important reasons, obviously!

Great weekend was in the stars!?

By one of those weird little coincidences, when I was @ the Fest I mentioned in my last entry, I kinda re-met a lovely lady I had done a Tribal Wk/shop with & also met her hubby & two of the kids.
It turns out we have lots in common so this weekend was a long weekend (Friday was Australia Day), and a band we all like were performing near their place, so we agreed to meet up again.

Had a terrific time dancing to the band (luv u Oka boyz!), watching the performance artists (check out the Dream State Circus if u eva get a chance) and stayed at their lovely place, & met all the kids.
Also a top bike ride there & back..yee haa..

Read my stars in the Saturday paper & they said 'it will be important to network w ur female friends, and over the next 2 weeks u will make friends of both genders due to synchronicity'...!

How cool is that!

Can't keep the grin off my face...even inside my helmet!
:-)

Amazing time!

Went to an amazing psy-trance/tribal/earth festival last weekend (well ended up about 6 days actually!)
Can't even begin to describe the incredible influx of experiences..music, dance, circus, people, chai, talk, synchronicity etc...but all round want to do more!

Didn't get any piccies really as too busy just doing it!

If anyone is going to EarthFreq near Tenterfield in Feb I'll catch u there!

:-)