Looking all the world like painted hieroglyphs on an ancient Egyptian temple wall , the resident Little Darwin Curlews lead us to speculate that the embalmed body of a revered and worshipped King Curlew ( Big Bird ) will be found inside a secret chamber behind the walls of King Tutankhamun's tomb, in which it is speculated could contain the mummy of Queen Nefertiti . When our Curlews were quizzed about this fanciful possibility , shortly after sunrise , they just sat there and stared back Sphinx-like, sending me a telepathic message to shut up , take my medication , and feed them .
STOP PRESS : Spooky things have happened since this item was posted ...In the first instance , during the night , there was a rumbling in the sky and up spake tenants of the Valley of the Kings , passing down the wisdom of the ages to mere mortals .
Then, in a flash of lightning , a giant white Curlew, above , descended to earth on Magnetic Island and held up a corflute for the ALP candidate in the seat of Herbert , Cathy O'Toole , who it has been remarked has curls like beauteous Queen Nefertiti .
Just across the road , the poster for the Herbert incumbent turkey , Ewen Jones, collapsed under the X-ray glare of the giant Curlew from the netherworld . Another dazzling flash , and a conventional sized Curlew from the Temple of Thebes appeared next to a poster of Cathy O'Toole , seemingly gazing back across the centuries to ancient Egypt and Syria.
It has hardly stopped raining ever since these astonishing events and with any luck this rain sent by the Pharaohs will fill the nearly empty Townsville dam so that we will no longer have to bathe in sour donkey voter milk , as did Cleopatra to exfoliate her wrinkles .
