A cooler day.

Mutterings continued.

21.9c, a nice wind, the promise of rain. Much better.

I've just come back from having dinner with Dad. He's moved all his stuff into the new place and it all fits better than we thought it would!

When Animals Strike Back:

"Beavers keep stolen cash
From correspondents in Greensburg, Louisiana
November 16, 2004

BEAVERS found a bag of bills stolen from a casino, tore it open and wove the money into the sticks and brush of their dam on a creek near Baton Rouge.

"They hadn't torn the bills up. They were still whole," said Major Michael Martin of the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office.

The money was part of at least $US70,000 ($91,000) taken last week from the Lucky Dollar Casino in Greensburg, about 50 kilometres north-east of Baton Rouge."

"Snake charmer quits after 24th bite
From correspondents in Kuala Lumpur
November 10, 2004

IT was the last fang for Malaysian snake-charmer Bidin Mat Hashim when a cobra bit him in front of a Korean television crew. After 24 snakebites in a 50-year career, he's calling it quits.

Bidin, who has been handling snakes since the age of 15 and appeared regularly on television, told the New Straits Times: "I have given serious thought to it and have decided to stop, once and for all."

You think after the second or third time he would have got the hint. The snakes don't like him.