[sigh] Well, so much for the lie-in! Woke up after three hours and couldn't get back to sleep, so read a couple of chapters of
The Ancestor's Tale (I'm back as far as the hagfish now, over halfway).
Kai was still feeling a little poorly - looks like something upset his stomach yesterday. He was fine again by lunchtime though.
The fact that my broadband went off again at eight minutes past 2 and didn't come back on again for an hour wasn't OK however. I rang to see if they could give me an earlier appointment, but unfortunately they couldn't. And I got it wrong, they don't call out on Sundays (or presumably overnight), but bank holidays appear to be acceptable.
We moved two roses, and planted the
acanthus (near the frewtnog pool). Still to do: pruning the goat willow and the ivy around the bird-cherry stump, and setting the stones around Roeg's Pool. It's been a good summer for getting the garden organised.
Prehistoric Park has now finished, alas. We've loved the series, loved the wonderful dourly pragmatic Bob the Head Keeper (who didn't bat an eyelid when two baby
ornithomimus velox adopted him as their mum, when asked to prepare a pond for a
deinosuchus, or when chasing a herd of
titanosaurs), loved the innovative TLC head vet Susanne gave to the injured T. Rex, the new-born sabre-tooth cubs, and the lonely woolly-mammoth, loved the snippets of info we learned and the world maps shown for each of the geological eras that were visited, and shook our heads over the completely insane antics of Nigel. [happy grin] But we can watch it all again next week, as the DVD set has been posted today from amazon.co.uk!
Along with my
Chronicles of Riddick director's cut. I'm eight pages into the fic at the moment and find myself in an
LotR situation: I need to get the details absolutely right, and am going to have to take several close looks at the bonus material. The more I watch the film, the more impressed I am, and the more annoyed the sequels weren't made.
Back to it. I'm trying something a little different with this one...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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