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Rough couple of days. But I went in to uni today, so clearly it is time for Peafowl Adventures: Photo Edition!
Not very good photos, sadly, because I left my camera at home, and in any case, I need to charge the batteries for it. And my laptop's webcam, which I used instead, has trouble with daylight. (But works very nicely indoors.)
The peatoddler I mentioned before is now very clearly a peakid. Look at this spunky youngster:
When I dubbed the peakid the peatoddler, it was maybe five inches high. I'd now say it's about ten inches high. feet to head-top, standing straight. Here's the peakid with the peamama:
Taking photos of a white peahen, outdoors, with a camera that dislikes daylight is a bit tricky, so this is the best shot I got of her:
And, because the other one wouldn't get out of the sunlight, two shots of just one of the peacocks:
Caption submissions are so needed for that second one. "Pea... what, you say?"
The two pealesbians appear to have broken up; if they haven't, they have a much more casual relationship than was on place when the two brown peahens were patently a couple. The brown ones wouldn't be parted. However, all three peahens and the peakid were chilling out together in a casual, relaxed manner as I was leaving the Dolphin Theatre, where I was taking the pictures... I know, because they were chilling on the exact path I needed to take to leave, and as I walked between them, the non-mama brown peahen blucked at me incredibly reproachfully.
"Bluck. BLUCK. BLUCK BLUCK."
"I'm sorry! I'm just going over there! I'm sorry!"
"BLUCK."
And then they all pointedly moved back a bit, away from the direction I was heading.
The peacocks were calmer, although one of them bitched at me when I stopped taking pictures of him. (No, really.) I didn't see either of them try to approach any of the peahens, so I didn't see whether trying to do so still gets them beaten up; in any case, the peadrama seems mostly to have settled down, but the peahens are VERY disapproving of interlopers.Current Mood:  exhausted
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I had never seen one in real life before: today, we got a Chick Tract in our letterbox. (The Beast.)
My brother-out-law Chas tossed it to housemate Dave, declaring that since Dave is the only heathen in the house, obviously it must have been meant for him.
Dave's reaction can more-or-less be summed up as: "Uh-huh."
... Speaking of religion. Conversation I just had with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) velithya, aka Dean, whose wedding - to Chas - is this coming Sunday.
Me: Hmm.
Dean: Hm?
Me: [I explain that I've been looking into a nearby Anglican church, and found their website, and read out their statement: We affirm the Church’s mission, in obedience to Holy Scripture, is to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in every generation. We acknowledge that this is Good News for people regardless of their gender, race or sexual orientation. We believe that, in order to strengthen the Gospel’s proclamation of justice to the world, and for the greater glory of God, the Church’s own common life must be justly ordered. To that end, we call on our Church to live out the promise of the Gospel; to celebrate the diverse gifts of all the members of the Body of Christ; and in the ordering of our common life to open the ministries of deacon, priest and bishop to those so called to serve by God, regardless of their sex, race or sexual orientation.] So they look like the kind of open-minded, progressive church I like to go to.
Dean: Might be worth checking them out... but maybe not this Sunday.
Me: Yeah, I've got stuff on this Sunday.
Dean: Oh? What's that?
Me: Oh, a couple of my friends are getting married.
Dean: That's nice. Anyone I know? [Starts laughing.] Dammit, I was doing so well.
Me: I don't think you've ever met the bride, actually, but you may know the groom reasonably well.
Dean: Is he hot?
Me: He's not my type, really. But he might be yours.
I am tired enough to find this hilarious. (Dean plans to marry Chas. She thinks he's attractive. I think Chas is the awesomest non-legally-adoptive big brother ever. I can't really imagine being attracted to him. This works well for all of us.)
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