…rural surreal #23

…ships of the desert... in wandella? ©150613

...a farmer in wandela in the cold bega valley recently bought three camels for eight hundred bucks each from a dealer in broken hill...

they are employed to eat the weeds like blackberry, tussocks and suchlikes that the cows won't touch... a trio of green, humped weed-killers...

...one of the young camels she named 'jimma' which means sexual intercourse in the arabic lingo... how appropriate, I heard you say, to give a middle east name to a desert-themed animal... 'jimma' is the term used in polite old sex manuals written in the jawi (borrowed arabic) scripts for the use of malay husbands and wives perhaps to liven things up  bit when you aready have fifteen kids and going for number sixteen... those were the days before the advent of internet lol...

...whichever way you look at it, the name seems encouragingly appropriate for a fertile camel... unless of course the owner hasn't a clue what it means or if she has, doesn't give a hoot what nosy neighbours like me think they know... as long as her weeds got tamed...

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