I just saw this on the Beeb news site. We hear loads about how we're wrecking our planet, how species are dwindling if not dying out because of it. It's depressing if we think of it seriously. And then there is something like this! I found it humbling that somewhere in the world there are creatures that bring a happy surprise when they are ( Read more... )

After yesterday's tongue-in-cheek "hey, for once I'm the other half" post, which actually didn't sound that way but more as a brag when I read it after some sleep, I thought I'd say I don't really think what it appeared I thought ( Read more... )

Tonight I went out for dinner to the Bosphorous with a Professor from Princetown, a Professor from Swarthmore University, and a (male) ex-classical ballet dancer who started several seriously important dancing 'things' in Canada. The Bosphorous was the setting for "Boomtown" where the Doctor (nine) ate prior to meeting the fake prime minister ( Read more... )

So much for building flexi time. It's a good job I'm not going to Scotland, I can cancel the afternoon I'd booked off using the aforesaid accrued minutes ( Read more... )

Well today is warm, but I think I already posted to say that earlier on ( Read more... )

It's nice to see the sun again today in Cardiff, after far too many weeks of pouring rain.

Hmmm ... warm ...

I'm not often up at 6am on a Sunday, but when I am it's usually for sporting purposes.

Am I glad I was today? You bet ya!

It's my birthday and I'll cry smile if I want to, cry smile if I want to, cry, smile if I want to!

Well didn't I do well?

I got birthday messages galore,

an icon from the lovely keswindhover *points at default and sniggers*

and birthday fic! Yay for birthday fic. Please go and read what the Limester wrote for me. *pokes millieweasley* You'll particularly enjoy ( Read more... )

It's the birthday of chudz today. So let's everyone wish her a rousing Happy Birthday and give her seventeen huge old birthday bumps!


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So we've seen the family tree and there is a whole new load of supposition to have fun with. There's one thing that still bothers me though. Why (apart from Nicholas Flamel and his wife who had the Philosopher's Stone) is no-one else shown to live anywhere near as old as Dumbledore? Far from long lives, the dates we're shown indicate short ones ( Read more... )