Behbeh elepant

Here is the Taronga Zoo's nearly seven month-old behbeh elephant, Luk Chai:



Hee!

More of his photos here.

Here is an article in the Minor News about this Spring's first convertible spotted with its top down. Dermot Cole writes:

"The first convertible of the season is not as momentous as the inaugural pothole or any number of other seasonal events — first motorcycle, flower, day without gloves, returning goose, airborne mosquito, softball pitch or blade of grass — but we have passed the first of March you know."

Our local columnists are quite good and funny and make the local paper very enjoyable.

I have another Spring inaugural event to add to the list--first horsefly buzzing in the throes of death in my house. What in heaven's name is up with those appearing during every warm spell? Where do they come from? I can buy that flies might lay eggs in the house at the end of Summer, and so during warm spells, the baby flies come out. But baby flies are born as maggots, are they not? And I do not have maggots, which are macroscopic and which I would notice. What I have instead are fully-fledged adult flies appearing out of nowhere and then dropping dead withing a few days, dropping, as they say, like flies. What's up with that?