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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Totem (the OTHER kind)

Over the years, lots of people have told me about their totem animals. I've never had one - until now.

Litoria peronia, sometimes known as The Maniacal Cackle Frog.

We're indexing photos of local amphibians at the moment. This is a fantastic website. It's only slightly ironic that my parting words on leaving general reference work in a public library were "at least I'll never have to do another *&*()!@! frog homework assignment again".

I have been knitting, I just haven't been blogging - promise to update soon-ish.

7 comments:

Ginger_nut said...

The kind of frog one likes to hear about on a knitting blog :)

is it also your power animal?

Bells said...

i was starting to worry about you Bea - glad to hear you're still around (even though I saw you on Sunday!) LOL!

Denise said...

Excellent frog name and noise, there! I wonder how it would react to a set of DPNs...?

Enjoy the frog pics! That reminds me - I need to get some frog recordings from my FIL to some ANU project thingy...

Kate said...

It seems that frog homework will probably be my lot one day - I'll try not to bug the local librarian! I can't think of a better totam to have than an amphibian : )

happyspider said...

great totem! maybe we should read you the yarn harlot's thoughts on crochet and then put it on youtube... just for illustration ;)

DrK said...

roflmao at the thought of what your own 'distinctive call' may be

Kate said...

Oooh goody - howework help online. This kid is going to learn typing and email in record time ; ) At some stage and I'm going to beg the neck down matine jacket patter from you. Despite keeping an eye out for vintage patterns, I have yet to find one as lovely as yours looks when completed : )