The legendary lungfish

Forget about the mandarins. We found out why Munduberra SHOULD actually be world famous: it's the only place in Australia where you can find a lungfish!! And what is a lungfish, you'll ask. It is a long "tampon shaped" fish, that during the summer heat and dryness is able to escape the mighty reaper of suffocation in the stagnant water ponds by swimming to the surface and breathing through its one lung!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yvonne now firmly believes in the evolutionary theory due to this damning piece of evidence (which pietro continues to tell her is not really evidence, just it makes the theory more likely) and would like to invite all the creationists in the world to come have a fishing weekend in mundubbera!!! (for all those that are worried about us fishing in the desert(apart from the fact that we still havnt touched either fishing rods or desert) it is highly illigal to catch lungfish).

The plan for war against normalness by making faces on oranges has long be contemplated and discussed between us (since pietro thought about it at the beginning - great minds think alike) but due to a huge lack of time (the oranges pass in about 0.3sec on the sorting line) this has been changed to a less time consuming letter in each box of oranges, descreetly placed there by pietro who gets payed to count the boxes and stand around and look pretty (which he is surprisingly good at!). The letters would consist in loving messages to the greengrocers of australia and the world, and would no doubt start a love wave that would change the world in say 4 to 6 weeks. We still haven't started, but the planning is underway. This to show to Dora that we still care about saving the world. Thank you for your support from home, donations to the mandarlove project are welcome.

We have both gone through many thoughts in the endless 12 hour shift where we are required to perform awesome and oh so many different tasks: Pietro can't help thinking how the fact that we start packing in the light, and then, at a certain point it becomes dark (this usually at around 5:30 everyday) makes our days so much less monotonous and more enjoyable.
Yvonne meanwhile (due to some serious difficulty in the connection between her eyes and her brain) has often contemplated how nice it is of our boss to occasionally send through small orange tomatoes and little baby pumpkins (that on second glances look very much like mandarines but still). We may be going slowly insane... but dont worry, at least we are enjoying it, making money, and getting to know many koreans, let's see it this way.

We also have a new pet. last night pietro awoke (at 2am, much to yvonnes frustration) to the sound of rustling in the car. After MUCH searching and silent vigilance in the dark, pietro found out that a little country mouse had moved into our humble abode, settling down in the food box. We dont really mind the idea of a pet, or sharing our food, but little dropping all over the car and sleep area do tend to worry us... but still there is very little we can do as the car is not that well organised, and the mouse is small and fast!

Per Silvana: in pratica in questo paese, unico posto in Australia, c'e' un pesce con un polmone che arriva direttamente dalla preistoria, poi mentre si lavora si pensa alle peggio torte: mettere lettere d'amore nelle scatole di mandarini per gli ortolani di tutto il mondo, oppure disegnare facce sui mandarini, come suggeriva la Dora. poi ci si annoia e ci vengono in mente pensieri strani: in pratica stiamo ammattendo. Inoltre l'altra notte abbiamo scoperto un simpatico topo in macchina, ma non si riesce a scacciare perche' in macchina ci sono troooppi nascondigli. Per i dettagli, costringi uno dei tuoi figli o mariti a tradurre, comunque sono solo ------ate.

Bye and much love to everyone
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