A year ago, I found a dead bat next to the footpath. As a reminder, here it is again.
Yesterday, I found this bird.
Here is another dead thing I found on the street that same day.
I see dead things
Month: September 2012
Can I take a photo of your carrot?
I was walking to work when I saw this.
‘What’s that?’ I thought. ‘A pot plant? In an orange pot? Oh… oh, is it carrot? I bet it’s a carrot!’
I ran in front of him and sure enough it was a carrot.
‘Excuse me! Can I take a photo of your carrot?’
He nodded calmly.
I got to work, super excited by this very strange, very Melbourne carrot incident.
‘Oh, the carrot man,’ Emma said dismissively. ‘I’ve seen it in the news.’
What?
Sure enough, there have been sightings of the Carrot Man all over Melbourne for at least a year.
Carrot man sightings: mystery bugs city, MX Melbourne
A man with a carrot, Fitzroyalty
What’s with the giant carrot?, Herald Sun
Who is Carrot man in Melbourne, 3AW
Banana bend
EC Commission Regulation No 2257/94: all bananas must be “free of abnormal curvature” and at least 14 cm in length.
In 2008 while I was in the UK, it and other EU nations voted out rules about the curves of cucumbers and bends of bananas.
Such rules would have denied my enjoyment in buying my weekly bananas at Dandenong Market.
Admittedly, extreme curvature is inconvenient for storage in my banana house.
Another day, another protest
It’s been a good week for civic participation. As well as the teachers’ strike, there were anti-fur protests at City Square for Melbourne Spring Fashion Week.
The big civic disruption, though, was the battle between Grocon and the construction union, CFMEU at the iconic Myer site on Lonsdale Street. It led the 7am radio news bulletin almost every day.
The police were very busy this week.
Red and purple
As I walked to work at 8am, I saw more and more people wearing red shirts. Around Fed Square, groups of three or four were smiling and drinking coffee.
A block later, four police men in fluoro yellow jackets walked towards me. Then a crowd of police in fluoro poured put of the police station on Flinders Lane. They all headed to Fed Square.
By mid-morning, it was clear what was going on.
I wonder where the purple people came from?