Apparently the Cricket season is upon us down here in Sunny New Zealand: this morning a bunch of kids showed up in the school yard across the street in white trousers and shirts and holding funny flat bats. Then they started playing this silly looking game involving wickets.
It's one of those things that really makes me feel like I'm living in New Zealand.
Now if only I could figure out the rules ....
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
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Jen has been doing a lot of reading of environmental laws for her Environmental Forensics class.
Apparently, it is illegal to import squirrels into New Zealand. This explains why all of the oak trees have huge piles of acorns around them. There are no small rodents to obsessively gather up all of the nuts and bury them in the hopes of maybe remembering where a couple of them are in the spring.
This concludes your Random New Zealand Tidbit for Monday, May 18.
Apparently, it is illegal to import squirrels into New Zealand. This explains why all of the oak trees have huge piles of acorns around them. There are no small rodents to obsessively gather up all of the nuts and bury them in the hopes of maybe remembering where a couple of them are in the spring.This concludes your Random New Zealand Tidbit for Monday, May 18.
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