Spent the morning working on painting signs, and when Yanni and Aylissa joined in this afternoon, That Bloody Ostrich decided to join in. She is always eating because food is not plentiful for her this time of year, so she can only take in enough calories if she browses night and day, so she continually pecks at things around her. Unfortunately her eyesight isn’t very good - as a rule ostriches are thought not to have particularly good eyesight - so she pecks at things she shouldn’t, like a fire, a shoe, a signpost, the side of your head. Ostriches are not known for having a high IQ.
Interestingly, if you think an ostrich is going to attack you, you simply need to hold up something that appears to make you taller than her. A hat on a stick or an upside down broom. Otherwise, just holding up a stick will work. As long as it’s higher than the ostrich’s head the ostrich will believe you are taller so will back off. I just love that!
I did try telling Yanni this, but you can see in the pictures he preferred to back off herself. Mind you, if the ostrich did peck I imagine she could hurt, although I don’t know if she could do any real damage.
We had a lovely meal this evening, making our own pizzas that were cooked in the outside pizza oven. I got some photos of our kitchen today, so I have put these in. Despite have these very small facilities, plus the pizza oven outside, and a half barrel BBQ/grill, one cook can produce meals for up to 70 people three times a day. And very nice food too, actually. Really good curries, dahl, n’seema, pasties, pies, dhosa,, lentil dishes, chickpea salads, omelet - they will have a go at anything.
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