Social Distancing,Isolation cautiously suspended and Insects Carry on as Before....

This monstrous centipede was wandering in our sitting room the other afternoon. I managed to capture it under a plastic food container, which I also use to capture big spiders, which frequently like to come into the house and nosy around too.
This centipede to me looks like a Chinese Dragon with its orange legs and banded body.
Its proper name is" Ethmostigmus rubripes". They are found all over Australia but in different colours. It eats snails and spiders and anything else in the insect world. Its bite is painful to humans but not fatally poisonous. This one was about 6 inches or 15/16 cm so they are quite large.

So you can see I didn't want it wandering into a bed. The house centipede is quite different.
The other thing that intrigued me, is the wasp which has built this very large mud nest on the clinker bricks of our patio. It was a large orange/black wasp with dangly legs. When I looked it up on the net (where would we be without the "net") it is called Mud dauber wasp, its official name being "Sceliphron formozem".
In the left hand corner of the photo you can see some other mud daubing wasp's nest....
I guess they do a lot of good in the garden....

The weather has become quite cold and we have the wood heater going day and night to keep the house reasonably warm for both Brian and the two little tropical fish. The Guppie and the Gold barb which live in the fishbowl on the breakfast table, are fascinating for me to observe. They are very active on my side of the bowl in the morning where I sit to have my breakfast as I feed them then, at the same time each morning.What intrigues me is the fact that after they have eaten the flakes I give them, they become quite aggressive towards each other. One morning it is the Guppie which attacks the Gold barb and the following day it will be the other way round.....

The wood which is to be burned can be quite beautiful with this lovely orange/yellow lichen on it, and I am reluctant to use it up.I have in the past used sticks with this lovely lichen on it for my fiber art booklets as anchors for the binding threads.
The neighbour on the East side of us has put sheep in his vineyard which brings back fond memories of my earlier life involved with thousands of the dear creatures in the Mid North....
these sheep are doing very well in cleaning up all the weeds in between the vines

Yesterday we actually had a sunshiny day for Friday and Kym was able to install the solar panel for the little pump to work in the bath/pond. It works a treat and the different fountain fitting now gives  a mushroom shape water head which will prevent water from being thrown out of the bath and so I won't have to top up the water too often. In fact when it rains I have to bucket some out, to stop it from overflowing and make the surrounds too wet.
Last week when we had an inch of rain I had to take out four bucket loads.
This morning I put in some stuff which will help to keep the water cleaner and clearer and we will be able to see the little goldfish in there a bit better.
Of course it will also mean the White Faced Heron can see them better too.....