New aquisition for today is the most gorgeous variegated fern with long, long tendrils. Had an urge to name it Mr Fingers but settled with Kiwi as it looks like kiwi fruit cut lenghtways ( Read more... )

Very tired after my first week at work but this is the first opportunity I've had to really check my emails etc, so thought I may as  well do this having been tagged by sploogal .
I tag anyone who wants to do this.

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   For some reason today is the day my past came visiting. Been in contact with three people I haven't seen in over a year and a half.
   

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   Sometimes ( Read more... )

On white_tean 's request I have done a summing up meme:

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
So many things…erm drink real absinthe? Go to a music festival? Come home on time?

2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
The last two years I was having too much fun to make any resolutions. Don’t regret it ( Read more... )

One if the coolest things I have seen so far this trip, and probably in my life, is glacial icebergs floating on lakes. These are not small icebergs. These are huge hunks of glacier the size of apartment blocks! All floating silently in a huge glacier lake. If you go really close you can just here dripping noises and watch drops slowly drip into ( Read more... )

For those of you who I haven't seen in the last few weeks or so this is just a note to say that I shall be leaving the country for a while. Will be home just before Christmas, but if I don't reply to your posts/messages etc then it is because I do not exist in the sphere of reality that I usually do.
If you want postcards, then send me your address

Today I handed in my form to apply for honours and talked to the co-ordinator about topics/supervisors. He actually said my crazy-spaced-out-combination topic was good and that the supervisor I wanted said yes! A lot of people have been telling me that he may very well not be my supervisor because he is head of school and so very busy, but ( Read more... )

This weekend I went through a car wash for the first time.
I loved it!
The squidey things looked like octopus tentacles.
:D

Cat managed to wake me up at 5am this morning by deciding to investigate my window. Doing so she managed to knock off all the stuff on my bedside table, fall off the top of my bed and on to me and generally make a nuisance of herself ( Read more... )

There are ducklings at my uni at the moment, and they are nothing short of adorable. Thus in response to white_tean 's request I am putting some of my photos of them up here.

( Cute balls of fluff this way... )

Thought this looked fun so decided to give it a go!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Post a picture in my comments of what you think describes me when you think about what/who I am.
Give no written explanation though. Just an image.
Macros are ok :)