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A cracker of a storm passed through Melbourne last night - as you can see!

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Jess the Phascogale Lady

Ever heard of a brush-tailed phascogale? Me neither, until I met my friend Jess. A phascogale is a tiny little marsupial with a big brushy tail and an unusual habit: after what Jess calls a "frenzied" mating season every autumn, all the males of the species drop dead of exhaustion... I'm not making that up! The phascogale is the central species that Jess is studying for the PhD she's almost completed. She's recently had a paper about her research published in the academic journal Austral Ecology, and asked me to take some photos to accompany a press release issued by her university. So we went down to what little bushland we could find in our 5km COVID lockdown limit, and this is one of the results.One speedlight through a MagGrid, screwed onto a Gorillapod hanging off an adjacent tree to my right. Second speedlight perched on a convenient tree stump left of shot and behind Jess. Each triggered with a set of Phottix Odin IIs.

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Eileen Walsh

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Little Desert National Park

Sunset over Little Desert National Park in western Victoria, as seen from the Pomponderoo Hill lookout. The next day, the area in the direction of this photo was burnt in a bushfire.

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Cedar and Matt

The first time that Irish set dancing was seen in Melbourne since the COVID-19 pandemic began was this, er, 'masked' dance at St Georges Church Hall in Ivanhoe in December 2020.

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Support Local Business

Chris and Zac at We Man's Kitchen, Preston. Chris (left) owns and runs Wee Man's Kitchen, hidden inside brewpub Tallboy and Moose. In normal times, his menu draws from his Scottish heritage: big burgers, chips with curry sauce, and Irn Bru floats for dessert. Now, though, his takeaway menu is all about the mac and cheese: what he calls "fancy posh comfort food". He'll do you a Sunday roast too, if you ask nicely, and he's a bloody nice bloke, too. Wednesday to Sunday, 12-9:30pm with home delivery available around the local area. 0431 750 996

Matt Harriage

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