Thursday, 27 March 2008
HI Gondies, The latest news regarding Cane Toads comes from the beautiful well endowed (in the breast department), Andrina, previously known as Andy. She /he (it is awfully confusing now since Emily held THAT party), but any way Andy/ Andrina said in his ever so endearing female voice, (high B flat as far as I recall) that "maybe by keeping the cane toads in the freezer for the whole week it actually preserves the poisonous aspect of the Cane Toads". (not bad logic for a bust-y brunette hey?) If Bodha or anyone elso knows if we need to have them unfrozen for an amount of time before they will be safe for fetilizing...please respond. Soon, we have full freezers. I found your green bucket Bodha: will deliver soon. The cane toads need to express one more point: they were concerned with the lack of dress up entertainment offered by the actual shareholders with the exception of Rosie and Andy and Aparmait at THAT great fun party.........even the Cane toads left early on the party night.......found more stimulation inside drains found in the vicinity of the water closets. They are genuinely concerned if a Shareholder Meeting damages creativity? Until the next episode, Toadaloo, Yuti and the Great Hunters
Latest Cane Toad News
THE LATEST REPORT FROM THE MINISTRY FOR CANE TOAD MANAGEMENT
Practical hints omitted from the last Cane Toad News Release. Many toads were found in one spot: a puddle beside Tess and Eric's sperated bathroom shelter. Trapping strategy: make a few puddles a couple of nights before hunting to bait and catch them easily. Once caught, put in fridge, freeze and allow one week before using as compost. National parks taught Bodha that if wait a week the poison is no longer active and they make the best compost. Keeping in mind that our purpose is to prevent deaths of native animals from eating Cane Toads, digesting their poison, and to give space for native frogs. Toadaloo Hunters and Gatherers
Practical hints omitted from the last Cane Toad News Release. Many toads were found in one spot: a puddle beside Tess and Eric's sperated bathroom shelter. Trapping strategy: make a few puddles a couple of nights before hunting to bait and catch them easily. Once caught, put in fridge, freeze and allow one week before using as compost. National parks taught Bodha that if wait a week the poison is no longer active and they make the best compost. Keeping in mind that our purpose is to prevent deaths of native animals from eating Cane Toads, digesting their poison, and to give space for native frogs. Toadaloo Hunters and Gatherers
Cane Toad Management Report
NEWS FOR EVERYONE WHO MISSED OUT ON ALL THE FUN WITH THE CANE TOADS>
Andy gets a medal for picking up most of the 28, we (Bodha,Andy,Yuti) collected. Bodha gets applauded for her creative ability to conduct a whole choir of Cane toads using a cane garden rake. Yuti gets a clap on the back encouragement for she finally picked one up and screamed and then realised she was still alive. Nonetheless, Yuti does, however, have a keen eye for the toads (and good speed in telling Andy to pick it up). Aparamit got 20 on his own !!!!!! Near the dunnies of course.....Bela and Astra and Carolyn got probably close to 20 also. We enjoyed the competitive element and so I reccomend you do not totally trust my figures, I have some pecuniary interest in making sure our group is sounding impressively superior. So once a month we'll pursue this fun until people go round saying "What is a cane toad? Never seen one". It is nice to be walking in the night through our land, having fun supporting each other; walking after dinner is a very healthy thing to do. Toadaloo, Yuti
Andy gets a medal for picking up most of the 28, we (Bodha,Andy,Yuti) collected. Bodha gets applauded for her creative ability to conduct a whole choir of Cane toads using a cane garden rake. Yuti gets a clap on the back encouragement for she finally picked one up and screamed and then realised she was still alive. Nonetheless, Yuti does, however, have a keen eye for the toads (and good speed in telling Andy to pick it up). Aparamit got 20 on his own !!!!!! Near the dunnies of course.....Bela and Astra and Carolyn got probably close to 20 also. We enjoyed the competitive element and so I reccomend you do not totally trust my figures, I have some pecuniary interest in making sure our group is sounding impressively superior. So once a month we'll pursue this fun until people go round saying "What is a cane toad? Never seen one". It is nice to be walking in the night through our land, having fun supporting each other; walking after dinner is a very healthy thing to do. Toadaloo, Yuti
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Sunday, 23 March 2008
New Webpages
A few new pages have been added to the Gondwana website:
cheers, keith
- Some of Gondwana's history is on the History page.
- Some historical photos are here.
- Landcare photos are here.
- Building the Meditation Hall is shown here.
- An article on Dru Yoga is here.
cheers, keith
Monday, 28 January 2008
Site 4, Gondwana (Test Video, 49 secs)
Site 4, Gondwana
You might need broadband to view this video.
This video was made using the video mode of my ordinary digital camera with resolution 320 x 240 pixels, and 15 frames per second. The file size of the video is 13 MB, and took about 15 minutes to upload to the blog with broadband. Video files can be a maximum of 100 MB, and would take well over an hour to upload with broadband.
cheers, keith
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Gondwana News
18 Jan 2008 - 21st Birthday Reunion
Gondwana celebrated its 21st birthday with a weekend reunion event (18 to 20th January). This was highly successful with many previous community shareholders and residents present. One photograph from this event is at the top of this page, and there are a lot more on our Photo Album page.
15 Jan 2008 - Community Title
Byron Shire Council recently approved our development application to convert Gondwana from a Multiple Occupancy development to a Community Title development.
This change to Community Title offers an improved legal structure for Gondwana, including separate land titles for each dwelling site which will enable us to raise mortgages on dwelling sites. We have been working towards this for over five years now, so greet this approval with a great sense of relief. There are still a number of consent conditions of the approval which we need to implement, so it is still a little early to bring out the champagne, but it is still an important milestone on this particular journey.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
How to contribute to this blog
Anyone can read this blog, but you will need to be invited by email to post to it. If you are a Gondwana resident or a friend of Gondwana, please ask me if you wish to post to the blog, and an email invitation will be sent to you. You will need to have a Google account to contribute to the blog - the email invitation will give you instructions about creating one if you don't have one already.
You can post anything of interest to Gonds and friends of Gondwana - and it is easy to insert links, photos or videos, etc. Ask me if you have problems.
cheers, keith