I Am Woken by, the Song of the Kookaburra in This Ancient, Haunting Landscape

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I liked exhibit 4, a brightly painted plasterand-enamel man with a pale blue suitcase -- but on the rocks nearby was a big green fern, like toothed hart's-tongue, which I've never seen before. Exhibit 16, called 'Butterfly Effect', consisted of three lilac-tinged shards of aluminium and was making some kind of a statement about solar energy generation; but the deep purple trumpets of convolvulus calling from their green nest made a statement about solar energy too.

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I Am Woken by, the Song of the Kookaburra in This Ancient, Haunting Landscape

Kookaburras don't really laugh, but I can see why the old song suggests it: a weird, taunting call, which does have a kind of dark comicality about it. And this is one of the sounds that wake me each morning in Hunters Hill -- where I find that The Spectator now has an Australian edition.

I'm staying in a lovely Victorian house in ...

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