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POSSUM BLACK MAGIC

POSSUMS, amiright? So cute, so annoying. This article is about zapping them with an electric fence. You can expect less prose poetry and more bzzzzt.

Our possums in Yarraville are your standard urban ringtail model. Furry machines for eating things, sitting on wooden fences at dusk with little dopey faces and big eyes.

I was happy to share the garden with possums. Then the bastards killed half the roses on the solar pergola so I have sort of declared it as a de-possumised zone.

THE SOLAR PERGOLA

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