What is it Wednesday? Good and bad

It seems to be one thing after the other at the moment.

I am still overwhelmingly busy at work.

Then the other night E our eldest phoned up to say she had just been crashed into by a Taxi in Deb’s car.

The good thing was no one was hurt.

Not so good the Taxi driver decided to try to deny responsibility.

The next good thing was she had her 6’3” 240 lb boyfriend in the car so no one was going to try to intimidate her.

Then the Taxi driver tried to say he was not insured.

E called him on that: Taxi companies are mandated to have insurance.

Next the Taxi driver read out his licence but tried to give the wrong number of digits.

The boyfriend came in handy here (insisting he see the licence himself).

Finally, the Taxi company phoned up yesterday to try and intimidate Deb into withdrawing our claim (bad move there Deb doesn’t intimidate for anybody)

Deb pointed out that E had witnesses and photographs to prove her version of events.

The final nuisance is we are going to be down one car for at least two weeks (parts have to come from Italy to fix the car).

But all in all, we are Ok after all - Nobody got hurt!

Now for the fun: What on Earth do you think this is?

In which Al admits he has no idea

Well the title of this post says it all.

More often than not when I think I have posted an easy WIIW nobody gets it. But when I post one that I think is tricky a number of people score a bulls-eye.

With this image I thought I would misdirect people.To be fair to myself a few people did take the bait (welcome back Anne) and guess a drain of a shower or bathroom.

Others like Carolyn V and John D came pretty close by guessing a ceiling.

Two people got close enough for me to award a good 90%. Jai (who also guessed shower but came back with her second guess) and Kristen M guessed a bus ceiling and an airplane ceiling. Well you both picked it as a speaker and a ceiling but it is neither a bus nor an aircraft.

Here is the image I cropped fromIt is the inside of a “W class” tram from the 1950s.This is what they look like from the outside. They still run them in Melbourne and they are very popular with tourists. Commuters generally prefer 21st century ones like this.

What is it Wednesday?

Work just keeps getting madder.

I had been fantasising that things would ease a little with a couple of big projects that we have completed.

But one of my team has been head-hunted and with the recruitment freeze we can't replace her.

On a more cheery note, none of my test subjects picked this WIIW so I think I have found you a tricky one.

What on Earth do you think this is?

Some wild stabs in the dark and the heart of the matter

Well there were some wild stabs in the dark this week!

Kitty you remind me of Alan Davis on QI randomly firing things off on the odd chance of scoring!

John, if I saw a serial killer creeping up to the house I would not be hanging around to take piccies!

Charmaine got it half right with her guess of flowers!

Linda G, OK I can’t say there isn’t a blob in there.

Susan, again I have to give your answer half marks.

Marcy, it is a reflection so I guess you do a bit better than half marks.

But the out and out winner hitting the target square on is Carolyn V.
It is a reflection of flowering trees in a lake!I took this one evening at the tail end of last winter (last August) Most of last winter was so mild down here that the wattle began flowering early. This is on the Eildon pondage just down the Goulburn River from Lake Eildon. The yellow flowering trees are a black wattle (probably Acacia mearnsii) a wonderful native here in Oz but an invasive weed in some other countries to which it has been introduced.

What is it Wednesday?

My internet provider is down, so I am posting this by my mobile phone.

As a result this is going to be very brief.

What on Earth do you think this is?

Missed by that much!

Well it is Sunday evening and I have literally walked back in the door after having just spent six hours in the car. Deb and I took off for an impromptu weekend away on Friday evening. Where we went was six hours drive each way so I just didn’t have a moment to reveal my WIIW on Friday as I had planned.
Most of you guessed reptile, or crocodile, or crocodile’s eye for this image. I can see that, it does look a bit like a crocs brow and eye. But it isn’t

Well you were right that it was an animal, but it is neither scaly nor a reptile.
It is an ear not an eye and an amphibian not a reptile!

As Michelle Teacress guessed it is a frogI snapped this little guy last spring at the Yea wetlands. Despite the fact he was on the ground he is a tree frog. He is one of those species that has a few common names, Peron's Tree Frog, the Emerald Spotted Tree Frog, the Laughing Tree Frog or the Maniacal Cackle Frog (Litoria peronii).
Yea is the southern part of their range, they are common across a large area of SE Oz. We used to get these guys hanging around on our windows when we lived in southern Queensland. They would catch moths and other insects that were attracted to our lights. They can walk across a window pane using those sticky pads on their toes. Clever!

What is it Wednesday?

Well once again I am home late. I am having minor (I hope) computer issues so I will keep this short.
What on Earth do you think this is?