Did the earth move for you, too?

I went for a bit of a drive on the weekend. I passed through the Lockyer Valley on the way home and was struck yet again by how rich the soil is. It doesn't look like any other soil anywhere that I've been. It looks like chocolate. This picture doesn't do it justice, although if you look up 'fertile' in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of Lockyer valley soil in there. If you look up my dictionary, that is. Two bizarre things happened while I was away. Guess what they were. Go on. Guess. You know you want to. Oh, alright, I'll just tell you then.
Firstly, not only did some kids who were raising money for..., some kids, I guess, wash my ute; they polished it as well. I thought that a photo was justified, it doesn't see a hose too often. That's the Gatton campus of UQ in the background, the dirt photo is of the DPI research station across the road.
OK, bizarre thing number two - I went to Brisbane to see an exotic friend of mine. Apparently the idea was to sit on her balcony in Kangaroo Point and watch Riverfire. Exotic friend has latin blood, so things got a bit willing pretty early in the night. How many of you can say that you have been getting to know somebody in the biblical sense and - just when things are about to reach their conclusion - an F1-11 does a 'dump and burn' low enough to make ornaments fall off the dresser? And burn the hairs off your arse. Not wanting to miss an opportunity I said "How often has a man made that happen for you?"

"In Brazil, all the time."