Today's bulge speaks for itself! I think he needs help containing it, that's for sure :)

Yesterday, after I dragged myself out of bed, took heaps of hay-fever pills and eye drops and all manner of other things to try and ease some of my discomfort because all the flowers and grasses in the damn neighbourhood are having sex at my expense, I fired up the BBQ and decided to have some snaggers for lunch (that's Aussie for sausages).

I couldn't go and start the races at athletics this weekend because I hadn't slept for two nights and I was in a terrible way, so my partner went instead. I didn't crawl out of bed until after 10.00 (which is rare for me because I am up at 6.30 every morning, hail or shine) Anyway, I thought it would make a nice surprise to have a lovely cooked lunch ready and waiting.

So there I was, cooking away, enjoying the sunshine and so drugged up those flowers could fuck all they liked. I finished cooking the snaggers, placed them onto the plate and put them on the side stand of the BBQ while I went into the kitchen to get the bread rolls and salad. 

Little did I know, I was being watched. No, not by a stalker, an admirer, or some crazy axe murderer. I was being watched by the local posse of magpies. They have had babies, too! I have had to change my walk pattern to avoid coming close to their nest, because being swooped by a magpie protecting their territory isn't a good idea. 

Suffice it to say, when I returned, bread and salad in hand, my sausages were gone! ALL of them. Four beautiful, tasty, succulent extra thick Cumberland 'breakfast style' sausages were stolen off the plate while still piping hot. The damn magpies had taken them...the thieves! LOL 

Not only do I have the flora of this country against me at the moment, the fauna is getting into the act as well! Oh well, bread and salad was nice too! *giggle*