I went for a stroll the other afternoon, well, to tell the truth Taj had decided we  were going to walk in the opposite direction (from what we’ve been normally walking lately). And was we rounded the corner, a neighbour drove past in his big four wheel drive. I guess he had been collecting his two young sons from school.

As he drove past, the Dad gave me a big wave, as all our neighbours do, and I thought nothing more of it. Until, I was walking past the back of his car, noticing how fast his boys from bursting from their seats, when one little tucker must have been bursting in more ways than one. Because as soon as this younger boy was free of the car, he struck a certain pose which can only mean one thing.

He was peeing, mightly, while having his body pointed at an angle away from me. It was cute and so natural, and the type of thing you can do in the countryside where I live, and get away with without anyone seeing.

Except this time.

This time, while the lil’ billy was making watery shapes in the grass, he glanced over his shoulder and spied Taj and I trotting along, trying to show that we noticed, but not weren’t actually looking.

“Ohhhhh!!! There’s a Lady!!! There’s a Lady walking there!!” The lil’ tike yelled at the top of his voice - still striking ‘the pose’.

 ”That’s why we do it in the toilet, isn’t it” His Dad immediately replied,with a sigh, and in the flattest, most deadpan manner. If you’d heard him you’d swear he’d had to say to hi son, every afternoon this week.

I went on my way, giggling as much from the situation as from being called a Lady by such a little man. Even in his moment of surprise, his tone made it sound so flattering.

Oh, almost forgot – so two minutes later I saw a sweet little pair of kangaroos having a relaxed munchy-munch of grass in the nearby paddock. And silly me I had decided not to bring my camera with me. But I went all the way back home to get it, just to be able to bring these photos to you.

I also had to scamper up the side of another neighbour’s yard to get close enough to the action, and in doing so, got the beejeebers scared out of me, when I got too close to the neighbour’s turkey-ginnea-foul-something-scaries.

 ” G-gg-gooble-gooble!!!” 

Was the sound they made,  in frightening unison, like surround-sound-ness and it almost had me flung into a big puddley ditch!

But, in the end, all was well.