I realise that most of the regular contributors to this wonderful site dont live in Australia, but for any who do...
I'm about to move from Melbourne to a tiny town in East Gippsland for work and I'm trying to find out if there are any other ITM / celtic musicians down in that part of the country? I'm guessing that the odds of there being a regular session are pretty slim!!! (Now I appreciate the dilema people like Emily have, where the nearest session is half a day's drive away!)
If anyone knows of any players from that neck of the woods I'd love to establish contact with a view to starting something up.
Otherwise, watch the Sessions section for a new venue, somewhere in this beautiful area of Oz, sometime in the future.
Isn't East Gippsland where they have giant earthworms (up to two metres long)? I seem to remember being told that when I was passing through there years ago. It may have been enhanced by a few tinnies though. Good luck with the session.
Australia's a big country - there's a lot of earth to chew up. Even with earthworms two metres long, there's still a great barren desert in the middle.
Didn't Darwin do some experiments where he observed the reaction of earthworms (and possibly ants) to music? I've only seen these referred to, however - don't know what the results were...
I have long suspected that earthworms can not hear as I have never been able to train mine to do any tricks and I can only put that down to deafness (and possibly the lack of legs). They may have no ears but they do have a kidney (a nephrostome) in every segment. It's a good evolutionary strategy for avoiding expensive dialysis and I felt that needed to be said in their defence.
I would imagine their hangovers are fatal, like they are for snails... I may need to apologise to the entire order of arthropods, but I have in fact been responsible for some 'snail pubs' in the past. These are plastic tubs full of beer, that you sink into the ground. Snails love beer and they just crawl right in...
This wasn't for fun, you understand - it was in defence of my lettuces... honest...
Ooo, I hate cleaning up after those. I buy that iron stuff that they eat and crawl off to die, so I don't have to deal with the carcasses of my actions. I always feel like Hitler when I do it, though. But I can't stand watching them chew up everything in my garden to shreds otherwise. They especially love the hostas...
But I think I remember from high school biology that earthworm brains are about half way down, aren't they? I never did find the brain in my pickled earthworm, but did get a look at someone else's.
Earthworms, now -- I'm very proud of the amount of earthworms in my garden these days, as when I moved in, there were next to none in the heavy clay that I dug up for beds. Now there's tons. Let's hear it for compost!
Earthworms are in the same phylum as leeches. Leeches are popular with some Neuroscientists as they have 20-odd segments, and the CNS comprises of a head ganglion, then an identical ganglion in each of the 20-odd segments. Each ganglion contains just some 400 neurons, many of which have been identified and their arborisations mapped.
Thus they are good model systems for various neuroscience investigations.
...Jeez.. I hope to hell there are no animal-libbers reading this. Hopefully their sympathies don't extend down to slimy things that suck your blood.
Going bush...
Going bush...
I realise that most of the regular contributors to this wonderful site dont live in Australia, but for any who do...
I'm about to move from Melbourne to a tiny town in East Gippsland for work and I'm trying to find out if there are any other ITM / celtic musicians down in that part of the country? I'm guessing that the odds of there being a regular session are pretty slim!!! (Now I appreciate the dilema people like Emily have, where the nearest session is half a day's drive away!)
If anyone knows of any players from that neck of the woods I'd love to establish contact with a view to starting something up.
Otherwise, watch the Sessions section for a new venue, somewhere in this beautiful area of Oz, sometime in the future.
Gerry
# Posted on June 15th 2003 by GerryTh
Re: Going bush...
Isn't East Gippsland where they have giant earthworms (up to two metres long)? I seem to remember being told that when I was passing through there years ago. It may have been enhanced by a few tinnies though. Good luck with the session.
# Posted on June 16th 2003 by Geoff Pollitt
Re: Going bush...
Australia's a big country - there's a lot of earth to chew up. Even with earthworms two metres long, there's still a great barren desert in the middle.
# Posted on June 16th 2003 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Going bush...
Fair dinkum, they do have giant earthworms there. I have actually dug up one that was half a metre long!!
I wonder if they like The Music?
G
# Posted on June 16th 2003 by GerryTh
Re: Going bush...
I don't think earthworms can hear - but then , neither can Evelyn Glennie.
# Posted on June 18th 2003 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Going bush...
Didn't Darwin do some experiments where he observed the reaction of earthworms (and possibly ants) to music? I've only seen these referred to, however - don't know what the results were...
# Posted on June 18th 2003 by Nell
Re: Going bush...
Once I get down there I'll have to do some experiments... Purely scientific of course
Besides, I might need the company!!!
G
# Posted on June 18th 2003 by GerryTh
Re: Going bush...
I have long suspected that earthworms can not hear as I have never been able to train mine to do any tricks and I can only put that down to deafness (and possibly the lack of legs). They may have no ears but they do have a kidney (a nephrostome) in every segment. It's a good evolutionary strategy for avoiding expensive dialysis and I felt that needed to be said in their defence.
# Posted on June 18th 2003 by Geoff Pollitt
Re: Going bush...
But imagine what their hangovers must be like!
# Posted on June 21st 2003 by Pádraig
Re: Going bush...
I would imagine their hangovers are fatal, like they are for snails... I may need to apologise to the entire order of arthropods, but I have in fact been responsible for some 'snail pubs' in the past. These are plastic tubs full of beer, that you sink into the ground. Snails love beer and they just crawl right in...
This wasn't for fun, you understand - it was in defence of my lettuces... honest...
# Posted on June 21st 2003 by Nell
Re: Going bush...
Ooo, I hate cleaning up after those. I buy that iron stuff that they eat and crawl off to die, so I don't have to deal with the carcasses of my actions. I always feel like Hitler when I do it, though. But I can't stand watching them chew up everything in my garden to shreds otherwise. They especially love the hostas...
But I think I remember from high school biology that earthworm brains are about half way down, aren't they? I never did find the brain in my pickled earthworm, but did get a look at someone else's.
Earthworms, now -- I'm very proud of the amount of earthworms in my garden these days, as when I moved in, there were next to none in the heavy clay that I dug up for beds. Now there's tons. Let's hear it for compost!
Helen started the gardening thing. Sorry.
zls
# Posted on June 21st 2003 by Zina Lee
Re: Going bush...
Earthworms are in the same phylum as leeches. Leeches are popular with some Neuroscientists as they have 20-odd segments, and the CNS comprises of a head ganglion, then an identical ganglion in each of the 20-odd segments. Each ganglion contains just some 400 neurons, many of which have been identified and their arborisations mapped.
Thus they are good model systems for various neuroscience investigations.
...Jeez.. I hope to hell there are no animal-libbers reading this. Hopefully their sympathies don't extend down to slimy things that suck your blood.
Danny,
Neuroscience Gestapo.
# Posted on June 21st 2003 by Rudall the time