This is the Friends of Dallas, the Friends of History debating society.

The Friends of Dallas debating society.

We don't debate Dallas anymore.

Dallas has acquired a clan of magpies.

Jeremy turns out to have acquired them too, and the revelation came this week.

Jeremy sent me a wonderful picture of, is that Papa, Magpie, Jeremy?

That is Papa.

That's a grandpapa, we call it.

Grand Papa, so Jeremy comes out.

You were 10 minutes late, Jeremy.

10 minutes? I was. I was 10 minutes late, John. No word of a lie. I walked into the kitchen. I knew I was a little bit behind. It was a Saturday morning. I figured I'd sleep in a little bit. Just enjoy the fact that we really didn't have much scheduled on the day. But no, sure enough, I was 10 minutes behind my normal time of feeding the magpies around about

8 o'clock and I didn't think anything of it except when I came down to the kitchen and looked

out the big double doors I suddenly noticed there was a make pie pacing on my patio out the back

there not only was he pacing every now and then he'd basically turn looking at the kitchen

and glad at me and I could actually see he was tracking'd basically turn, look in the kitchen and glad at me.

And I could actually see he was tracking me because as I walked around the kitchen, I could

see his head very much honing in on me.

So needless to say, I got the message very quickly.

And I should say too, Dallas was just behind me wagging his tail.

So I think I could see the collusion happening quite clearly here. But needless to say, I went into the pantry, went into the fridge, got the little bits of meat out.

It was a special week, too.

We had some leftover kangaroo meat that Dallas didn't eat from the dinner before.

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