Mmmm. Basking. As though my pores are drinking up the sunshine. Common analogy, strange image. I have no idea how people can stand living in cold climates all year round. My mood pretty much follows the seasons: i'm cold and bitter in winter, warm and genial and lazy in summer. I think i'd become an evil yetti if there was no warm relief in the years cycle, hurling a sharpened ice-pick at whoever got on my nerves.

Oh! A honeyeater just swooped down and collected some straw from one of our hanging baskets! Springs a'comin!
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Some words you just have to say a certain way:

Snigger: pronounce 'schnigger'. Draw out the schh sound

Nerd: pronounce 'nyerd'. Purse your lips like a turtle while you say it and do your bug-eyed impression.

Excellent: Mr burns style.

Kraken: dramatic, Davy Jones style.