enismirdal | 24 January 2009

When I visited my parents the other week, I got myself new snuggle socks. Few things in life make an Eni happier than having warm feet, and these new socks fulfil this purpose most excellently. I also got new snuggle jimjams, which are purple and soft and warm.

Sucrose is exhibiting all the symptoms of diabetes. Which is hardly surprising considering she's a "Russian Dwarf" of unknown breeding (so could well be part Campbell's even though she looks and acts more like a Winter White). So no more carrot for Sucrose, unfortunately. Am trying to put together the required high-protein, high-fibre, low-fat and virtually sugar-free diet she's now supposed to need.

Rubisco is looking quite well and is maintaining an acceptable, if not fantastic, weight. Her backside is clean and her bedding isn't toooooo bad. Whatever she has might still be a mystery, but less veg, less wheat and less artificial crap seems to help a lot.

Went to see tuxedo_elf and Tuxedo Baby last weekend. He is very cute and so active!

Am collecting data from bees at a pretty good rate, and have LOTS to analyse. Bees are a bit odd - they don't seem to start foraging till about 11am, then stop entirely from about 1pm till 3pm, then start up again at 4:30pm, by which point I'm usually too tired to be enthused by the idea of testing another bee, but where possible I've been gritting my teeth and doing it anyway. Was meant to go in and test one today but I was just tooooo exhausted and still have 40-odd undergraduate scripts to mark.

Flatmate is back from America. Newest flatmate is nowhere to be seen. We thought he'd be back on Tuesday but if he is he's been staying with his girlfriend as he definitely hasn't been in the house.

Ordered myself a CD by Gregorian (Masters of Chant I - will collect full set). YAY.

I think that'll do for now. I leave you with a random photo.

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