I’ve been working on a construction site. As we were driving yesterday, we were stopped in our tracks by an eastern brown snake. It was big — about five foot, or as long as I am tall. It fat, as thick as my wrist.

It was also deadly. The eastern brown snake is the ‘second most toxic land snake in the world’, according to Wikipedia.

We got out of the 4WD to take photos. The snake looked at us for a while, then darted very fast into the grass next to the road. It was beautiful and wriggly.

Sunbathing on the road -- snake

We use the zoom lens -- these things move fast!

Ah, look at its beady eyes

The convenience store 7-Eleven has a series of posters featuring a range of Slurpee flavours.

Lime Pear Slurpees

The fine print says: ‘Fruit image shown is illustrative of flavour only and not an ingredient of the product.’

I wonder if the lawyers told them to do that.

Someone put this poster up next to the tram stop.

Wanted: Live Toadfish

Small, live toadfish wanted.
Can be found by any diligent fisherman.
Please call (…. … …) for reward and delivery/pickup of toadfish.
Reward $70

Yes, I’m

And it’s ripped off so we can’t see the end of that sentence.

We knew it was coming.

The office fruit bowl today

Sorry for the interruption

Someone parked their cherry picker in the Monash University carpark. Monash Uni is full of vigilant park inspectors. I wonder if this picker would ever get a ticket?

Cherry picker at Monash University

‘Hey Joan, let’s go to into YD,’ my brother said. ‘They usually have good casual shirts.’

Jason and I browsed a while and found a purple shirt and a blue-green shirt that I liked.

At the sales counter, the lady packaged Jason’s new shirts and took his card.

One of the other store assistants was hanging around. ‘So the XS was the right size?’ he said.

‘Yeah, the XXS is too small. I knew that XS would be right,’ Jason said.

‘Well, those shirts are great colours.’ He switched tack. ‘Hey, I like your jeans. What brand are they?’

‘They’re Nobody jeans,’ Jason replied. ‘Kind of hard to get in the store.’

‘Yeah, they look good,’ the store assistant said. ‘I have to wear YD jeans and sometimes I get sick of it… Although they’re really good!’ he added quickly.

I was second in the queue to pick up my photos from the Kmart photo lab.

A young man was making pleasant conversation as he packaged up the lady’s wedding photos.

‘There you go,’ he said and handed over the photos and the receipt.

‘Great, thanks, bye,’ said the lady. I stepped forward as she turned away. She had gotten five metres away when the young Kmart employee called her back.

‘Excuse me! I forgot to give you change.’

He took the a five cent coin out of the cash register and pushed it across the counter to her.

‘Don’t spend it all at once,’ he advised her gravely.