Part of the UWA celebrations included the immortalisation of the peacocks. For anyone who studied there, especially in the Arts building, you’ll recall many a lecture being interrupted by their squawking. They were a welcome reminder of the world outside, and a timely alarm clock if you’d partied a tad too much the night before. Such an integral part of the UWA brand it was wonderful to see them playing a major role in the celebrations.
At first it simply wandered onto the Luminoushall lightshow, but then ….
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Fluffed it’s feathers

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and, perhaps adapting to the warm hue of the evening, changed colour.
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I don’t know why but for some reason it had me pondering about some of the garb we used to phaff about in in the 80’s thinking we were the bees knees … or the peacocks … plumes???
