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ladyofastolatQuick notes while waiting to leave for a course in Warwick...
Nice few days with my parents:
- We saw a distant dot that a nice RSPB lady told us was an osprey. She found it suspiciously quickly. I suspect it was stuffed and she had planted it.
- We saw the Flying Dutchman. Honest! (Well, we saw a sailing ship, whose masts and sails looked the same colour as the mist, gliding along past a wiggly estuary in a way that made it look as if it was hovering above the water. Honestly, it looked so like a ghost ship, I realised instantly why such legends grew up.)
- We learnt that cats can catch the same mouse twice. In Honey's case, four times. No matter how well we hid the carcasse, it came back.
- I watched in amazement as my mum turned the patch of land outside out house from a wilderness to a pretty garden in three hours. What is that magic, and how can I learn it?
- We failed to find an intact skeleton of a dinosaur, despite going to the beach the the nice Fossil Man said was the best one for finding fossils. Honestly, it's just not on!
- We appeared in a "blink and you'll miss it" fashion on Blue Peter. For some reason, the editor had decided that the presenters were more worthy of screen time than Pellinor and me, dancing! Shocking!
Now I'm off to Coventry station on a nice Virgin train (i.e. a nice train with power sockets for laptops. Woo-hoo!) I'm keeping my fingers crossed that a nice modern conference facility, based at a university, will have internet access in each room. I mean, I can't go for two days with the Internet. It's a breach of my basic human rights!
EDIT: Got Internet access in my room. Got nothing to say, but am determined to say something anyway, just because I can. Train horribly late. Got horribly lost on university campus. Food lovely, though.
Nice few days with my parents:
- We saw a distant dot that a nice RSPB lady told us was an osprey. She found it suspiciously quickly. I suspect it was stuffed and she had planted it.
- We saw the Flying Dutchman. Honest! (Well, we saw a sailing ship, whose masts and sails looked the same colour as the mist, gliding along past a wiggly estuary in a way that made it look as if it was hovering above the water. Honestly, it looked so like a ghost ship, I realised instantly why such legends grew up.)
- We learnt that cats can catch the same mouse twice. In Honey's case, four times. No matter how well we hid the carcasse, it came back.
- I watched in amazement as my mum turned the patch of land outside out house from a wilderness to a pretty garden in three hours. What is that magic, and how can I learn it?
- We failed to find an intact skeleton of a dinosaur, despite going to the beach the the nice Fossil Man said was the best one for finding fossils. Honestly, it's just not on!
- We appeared in a "blink and you'll miss it" fashion on Blue Peter. For some reason, the editor had decided that the presenters were more worthy of screen time than Pellinor and me, dancing! Shocking!
Now I'm off to Coventry station on a nice Virgin train (i.e. a nice train with power sockets for laptops. Woo-hoo!) I'm keeping my fingers crossed that a nice modern conference facility, based at a university, will have internet access in each room. I mean, I can't go for two days with the Internet. It's a breach of my basic human rights!
EDIT: Got Internet access in my room. Got nothing to say, but am determined to say something anyway, just because I can. Train horribly late. Got horribly lost on university campus. Food lovely, though.
