Fascinating, thought-provoking 20 minute video: What is the Oldest Mummy in the World? The Ask A Mortician videos are always so interesting.
Today's quail update: sometimes a bird will lay an egg that has no shell around the internal protective membrane (Photo 1). Last week's unusually large egg (13 grams) produced a double-yolker (Photo 2). 🐦
This unusual (to me) dead fish on the beach this morning may be a Black Oreo Dory.
large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish
Look at those teeth! This fish is all head and no body.
I’ve spent much of the day in bed as I’ve been feeling odd all day — a bit dizzy perhaps. On a rare trip ‘out’ I saw and heard baby quail Flop crowing. I guess that’s his sex sorted out then. Fliss almost certainly laid an egg this week, so that’s her sorted too. 🐤
There were interesting clouds at dusk tonight — braided and wave-like.
Today’s XKCD comic has to be one of my favourites.
It seemed fitting on the eve of my 64th birthday to go down to the beach and watch the sun set. It was a gorgeous evening!
Felicia is a very dedicated mother. She's sitting on 5 eggs I've left with her. In a couple of weeks they *might* hatch. 🐦
Hen egg vs quail egg. The last hen eggs we bought are jumbo size. In the photo I put a regular size Coturnix quail egg next to the smallest of the jumbo eggs. The hen eggs are in a normal egg box. Those for the quail are in a cute ‘chocolate' box a friend found. For [@smokey](https://micro.blog/smokey) . 🐦
Found: The women mathematicians responsible for calculating ballistics tables for missiles being used by allied forces in World War 2. (The Top-Secret, Female Computers of World War II)
Also on the beach today this probable green-lipped mussel, with brown ‘beard’.
I haven’t seen any penguins on our beach — until today with this dead one. 😒
Someone had marked its location with a driftwood cross of sorts. The bird was roughly 48 cm from beak tip to ‘tail’ end. 🐦
Florence and Felicia are two of last year’s quail. One of them laid the middle egg in the photo of 3 eggs. It’s a normal size for a quail egg (11 grams). Spot is from the previous year, and Fliss is now 7 weeks old.
This tiny egg (9 grams) and the huge egg (13 grams) came from the run they’re in. 🐦
Today I separated the quail into two groups in separate runs. Poor little baby Flop has been badly bullied by Fatima, the male, meanwhile her mother Felicia is sitting on 5 eggs. I’ve kept Florence, a good, steady girl with them. Fatima, baby Fliss and Spot are now in together.
Clever Siri. I said: “Hey Siri, remind me to move the lime tree in Autumn”. Siri scheduled my reminder for 09:00 on 21 March this year. Technically the first day of Autumn. Perfect.
The beach was looking a bit gorgeous this morning. I had just dug in those sticks to help mark the track.
In the distance is Kāpiti Island, which friends and we will be staying on overnight in a few weeks time. It’s a protected island where endangered species live.
Yesterday this fishing vessel was working *really* close to shore. A good swimmer could have easily reached it. Apparently they can come as close as they like until they reach their quota limit.
How to get list bullets on the Home Page with Marfa theme
The other day I wrote a post with a list in it. Mysteriously, it showed up on the Home Page of my Micro.blog-based blog without any list bullets. I use the Marfa theme.
That was disconcerting and I tried a few things with Custom CSS to sort it out. Finally I found what worked, though it took quite some time to be visible on the Home Page:
#post-list li li {
list-style-type: disc;
}
/* overcomes lack of list marker on home page */
Part of the ‘problem’ is that posts on the Home Page appear in a list. The list marker (bullet point) is removed so we don’t get a bullet point before each post (#post-list li).
A list that appears within a post has to have the marker restored, hence (#post-list li li). As for the list-style-type
, choose whatever marker you prefer. Just be aware it will apply to all kinds of lists in all posts. If you sometimes use unordered lists and at other times ordered lists then my code above will need to be refined.
I haven’t tested it, but something along the lines of #post-list li ul li
and #post-list li ol li
might work.
At our beach we sometimes get Bluebottle jellies and By The Wind sailors, but I haven't before seen these small clear jellies. There weren't loads of them, but I spotted maybe a dozen on our brief walk. The biggest was maybe a hand-span.
