TheBanyanTree: Banyans

[Woofie]

And you are a very silly McManly! No not for resembling Tarzan but for 
drinking alcohol after drinking kava!!!!!!!
That is a very bad thingy to do! Kava and alcohol do NOT mix!
  And how do I know? I know because now I am an expert on kava - its 
preparation and the drinking thereof. I am an expert cuz now half of our 
family is Fijian Indian and so we have been initiated into the good 
things in life, including kava. *grin*
Woof, who is about to sup on a Tiger - beer that is, not the animal of 
the same name and who is deep in tiger country atm:)

On 31/07/2012 12:10 PM, Peter Macinnis wrote:
> For those not in touch on Facebook or other such things, I am 
> currently in Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides Condominium (known to 
> cynics as 'The Pandemonium'), a colonial experiment where until 32 
> years ago yesterday, the British and french held joint colonial power.
>
> There are 83 islands, some 106 local languages, plus English, French 
> and Bislama, a creole closely related to Papua-New Guinea Pidgin or 
> Tok Pisin.
>
> More to the point, it also has gigantic banyans, and I have been 
> swinging on one of them today, a swing that took me out on a 12-second 
> swing where I was at the high point, some 20 feet above a tangle of 
> roots and nothing but my firm grip keeping me on. Pictures in 8 or 9 
> days.
>
> Today I drank kava, much against my better judgement.  I am now 
> recovering with the aid of a bottle of Tusker, the local beer--this is 
> a tried and true Royal Australian Navy remedy.
>
> I shall expand on this at some future date.  We are going out now to 
> stalk some wild horses.
>
> peter
>
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