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Keeper for the day
At Blackpool Zoo yesterday. It was enormous fun and a lot of hard work. Zookeepers work long hours and six day weeks hauling food and animal poo all day long. Kinda worth it to stand in the ring tailed lemur cage and hand feed them grapes. I learned that some of the giraffes there were fussy about their food - one sniffed the carrot carefully ( Read more... ) -
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RIP Kage Baker. -
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Snowed in. Not a huge amount of snow, but enough to stop me being able to get the van off the drive. Still snowing though, so the four inches it currently is might soon become five. Missing work, but it is only a temp job, so I don't think they will be too fretful. Have put the christmas tree away for another year (I don't believe in buying cut ( Read more... ) -
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Beginning to think I would have been better off looking for a job somewhere else, somewhere less crime ridden, like Moss Side, perhaps ( Read more... ) -
Random update
Watched Avatar on Friday night. Many things have been said about it, and I agree that it isn't the best movie in existence, but I really enjoyed it, when I wasn't busy internally yelling at the clumsy dialogue and cringing at the overdone stereotyped characters and concepts. I will watch it again. Why? Because it was bloody enjoyable (and I ( Read more... ) -
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First week of new temp job done. It's in Speke, Liverpool, which is a terribly dodgy area, which is why I won't be putting an application in for the permanent role they are recruiting for. That and the place is stuffed with alcoholics who just won't stop smoking indoors. Still, the job will pay for the new washing machine that replaced the old ( Read more... )
