Sooooo...

It's been a busy couple of days. Hospital appt yesterday: we were asked to go in again today for a blood cross-match so we can have a (relatively) fast appt on Thursday. Then I shopped (and carried too much again. Determined to stop doing that next year).

Up early this morning, put a wash through, sorted out the top of the airing cupboard, and was going to do the last Sainsbug shop of the year, except it pissed down with rain so I decided to do it later. Just as well, as the steamer and toasted sammij maker arrived while I was tidying!

Shopped after the rain, made toasted ham sammijs for lunch when I got back (worked perfectly and Kai really liked them, so that's a few lunches each week sorted), then it was the hospital (which was quick), then back and I went over to do the last Tesco shop of the year. Then came back and made dinner, pork chops with veg steamed in the new steamer - which also works perfectly, is very fast and efficient, and tick-tocks as the timer winds down. The alarm is good and loud too. So the latest purchases are a success.

After dinner it was the penultimate Arthur of the Britons of season 1, and then Silent Running, which is a pretty depressing film and I wanted to watch the DVD before the new year. So today was actually pretty successful...

Now fifteen minutes to go: I can't wait to see the back of this horrible, horrible year. Please let 2014 be better.

Labels: busyness

Normal Sunday shop. There are a few useful specials at Sains, so I took advantage.

The steamer has been playing up over the last few months. The digital display isn't working (it's never been very easy to see, you have to bend down to eye level to read it, and there's no backlight), the alarm is so quiet you have to be right next to the thing to hear it, and recently the veg has been cooking very unevenly. So I thought it's time for a new one, and I was planning to get into town to check out the sales. I had a look on amazon first, though, to get some idea of prices - and that's when it occurred to me that of course amazon has reviews...

Heh. Turns out the problems I was having with the steamer (it's a Breville) are a feature of the actual model, not just of mine. I've ordered one of these instead. It's a bit more than I'd planned to spend, but since it gets used at least three times a week to cook all our veg and most of our fish, it makes sense to go for something reasonable. It's also not digital, so there's less to go wrong.

While I was it I ordered this as well. Finding ideas for lunches that Kai can safely eat is becoming a challenge: at least with this I can make a variety of toasted sandwiches, which will be hot and nourishing for him. (And I like 'em too!)

The IMDB doesn't have plot outlines/guides for (most of) the episodes for Arthur of the Britons, I noted - so I'm writing them. (And I've just checked and the first three have been OKed and posted!)

Later edit: They don't seem to like my summary for The Penitent Invader. Perhaps they have a fundie on the staff? I should mention that the summaries for Rolf the Preacher, Enemies and Lovers, and The Slaves were written by someone else.

Labels: British drama, domesticity, shopping

I have to be strong. I use the fact that I have to keep everything running smoothly to distract from the fact that both my husband and our only child are fighting life-threatening diseases. There are no guarantees that they will survive. I have never felt so alone.

Checking email first thing I found a message from Go Outdoors announcing their latest massivemammothmegasale, and since our branch is just over the Bath Rd, and since my current trainers have splits in the soles and let in all the wet, I thought I'd tank over and see if they had the ones they were advertsiing (£14.47 instead of around forty quid). They didn't have them (hadn't for about two years, so why they were still on the site they had no idea, the assistant told me). However, they had these, which are comfy: also bought a new tougher rucksack for Kai (on the same deal, actually). So that was good.

Dropped off the purchases and went down to Sainsbugs. All their catfood is on special at the moment, so Ken came with me to help carry.

This evening it was the next two eps of Arthur, the last ep of Atlantis, then Matt Berry narating Channel 4's 50 funniest moments of 2013... Mm. Some of them were not what I'd call funny...

Between us Kai and I managed to do most of the transformations for the new figures (the TF: Animated ones don't have instructions, so that was fun).

Optimus Prime (somewhat battle-scarred).

Ratchet

Lockdown

Bayverse Shockwave alt form (Cybertronian tank, I think)

Bayverse Shockwave root form.

I also found out yesterday, re: Kai's treatment, that they usually don't expect to see anything much happen before three months after the chemo, and if nothing has happened by six months they conclude it hasn't worked and move to plan B. Now we know, we can keep a closer eye on things.

Labels: British drama, medical matters, shopping, Transformers

Kai needed platelets, so has been very sleepy all day. Watched two Arthur eps tonight - wonderful stuff!

Also the deliciously vicious Vicious xmas special.

Seem to be trying to fight off the lurgy Ken thinks he's brought home from work. Certainly don't feel too good. Typical. For once I wasn't ill for xmas itself, now I may be for New Year...

Labels: British comedy, medical matters

Another wonderfully relaxed day. Watched and thoroughly enjoyed the second ep of Arthur of the Britons, then put on Deathly Hallows part 1 after the buffet lunch (Ken went over to return some archaeological finds to a friend) and Kai flopped on sofa while I made a rather nice rich duck stock, then after dinner we all watched Deadly Hallows pt 2. My comments the same as before - too choppy, too hurried.

And I began reading MTMTE vol 1. It starts off rather grimly, but by the time I got to Rodimus assembling the crew of the Lost Light I was laughing out loud - and that's never happened with a Tf continuity before! The characters are completely nuts, the dialogue gloriously funny, and the basic premise - a bunch of misfit Cybertronians, some familiar, others new, head off into space in search of the mythical Knights of Cybertron - daft enough to be highly amusing. If the rest of vol 1 and vol 2 live up to this promise I can see I shall want to read the lot (and it may well be a lot as the comic is still ongoing)...

Also, if anyone every produces a comic-accurate Metalhawk, I want one!

Labels: films, Transformers

Fairly long post with lots of photos...

Xmas Eve

Shopped at Sains. It was actually quite pleasant. I didn't have much to pick up, unlike most of the other shoppers. After dinner (Kai requested lasagne) we watched Les Miserables (picked it up cheap at Head and as we'd so far managed to miss seeing it...) Can't say I enjoyed it. Well done and some good songs, but unrelievedly miserable, really.

Today was loads of fun - and the present haul was fantastic! And for the 24th year in a row we had a sunny 25th.

To explicate the Glastonbury trip and the dismaying lack of foxes... Kai loves them, and I wanted to buy him a stylised fox head pendant (sort of totem or spirit animal representation). St Nick's Market used to sell a very nice line in such things, but sadly haven't done in years. I did find what I was looking for though, on etsy (it's a little small but a lovely design and not ornate). I think he likes it - he's worn it all today, at any rate. (I got him an unbreakable faux suede thong to hang it from if he decides he doesn't like the chain, too). And he was very impressed with the earphones from GoodTwin.

Mine was mostly Transformers related of course -

Tf: Animated alt modes

Tf: Prime Beast Hunters, and Bayverse Shockwave -

along with this adorable little robot keyring from Sue (that's now in my lovely new bag.)

AND More Than Meets The Eye Volumes 1 & 2 (so now I can find out what all the fuss is about!)

Also from GoodTwin the complete Arthur of the Britons (ye gods, 1972. I feel old...) which was a complete and wonderful surprise! We watched the first episode right after finishing opening the presents and all loved it. Going to watch it all over the next couple of weeks!

After dinner we watched Iron Man 3 and thoroughly enjoyed it. Gloriously silly and great fun.

It's snowing in the Forest, and there are candles everywhere, and now instead of belling, when you hit the call button you blow enormous bubbles instead! Such fun.

All in all it's been a lovely day. We've all enjoyed it, and Kai in particular has had a good time, I think. Very happy about that!

Labels: Endless Forest, Transformers, Yule

Well, to our surprise and considerable pleasure, yesterday's cross-match worked and Kai's bloods were ready on time. There weren't enough porters on to get it to us in a hurry, mind you, but it was ready. We got home at 4.30 instead of after 8!! This is very good and well worth the extra trip.

So I did the last of the bulk shopping at Sainsbury's after we got back. Just little incidentals to pick up now, will do a quick shop tomorrow. Assuming Sains doesn't blow away in the night, the weather is atrocious.

We took a few mins in the Forest to celebrate, and I got adopted by fauns again. I think it's that mask - it's friendly, and newbies seem to like it. It's kind of flattering that they congregate, except it makes me a mum in both worlds...

Labels: Endless Forest, medical matters, weather

Into hospital for blood cross-match, so tomorrow should be shorter. Kai had a platelets transfusion though, as the count was a bit low, so he won't need those tomorrow, which - again - should hopefully speed things up a little. Fingers crossed anyway...

Labels: medical matters

Joyous Yule
And Happy 24th Anniversary to Us

And once again Ken and I independently bought matching cards...

We manage to do this nearly every year. It's kind of cute.

So I was woken up with caramel coffee and a bar of Turkish Delight (nom!)

And the day just went downhill from there...

Came downstairs to find a patch of wetness on the edge of the carpet between the kitchen and this room: on investigation I found that the kitchen vinyl was raised in patches and squelched when pressed. Lifted the vinyl to find the floor underneath - thermal tiles, not wood, thankfully - wet. Immediately thought there was a problem with the washing machine, so between us Ken and I eased it out from its (very tight fitting) corner and checked behind. Machine is fine, but the corner was wet and when I opened the sink unit cupboard door the chipboard the unit is made from was sodden and I could hear a drip every 8 - 9 seconds. Dragged everything out of the cupboard and eventually established that the old waterfilter fitment screw had rusted, split the fixture and holed the water pipe (we have Heath Robinson plumbing here...) It had dripped down behind the grouting and flooded the back and base of the unit.

You can imagine the state everything was in.

So I spent the next three hours cleaning/disinfecting/drying/spraying everything with antibacterial stuff to make it as hygeinic as possible (and taking the opportunity to clear out the accumulated unused or nearly empty cleaning stuff that lives there). We can't fix the leak, that's going to need a real plumber, but we've diverted it so it now goes into the sink. Not ideal but it'll keep us going for a while.

Not exactly what I planned to do on our anniversary.

After that it hardly seemed worth resting, so we went to Sainsbury's and got most of the rest of the Yule shopping. It was packed of course. Got back to find Kai feeling poorly, so settled him on the sofa with The Box of Delights DVD I found in St Pete's Hospice last week: I loved it when I saw it in '84 but it was new to Kai. He's enjoying it too - watched three eps then stopped for dinner (steak) and will watch the rest tomorrow.

Because after dinner we watched Star Trek: Into Darkness...

Predictable, essentially the same plot as the first film, hugely heavy borrowings from old Trek (homages I can cope with, usually like, but this was rehashing entire plots!) and very disappointing. All the way through I kept seeing similarities to the Transformers films, and after it ended I found out why - Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman were the writers. (Transformers, Transformers: Prime.) I am very glad I didn't pay to see it at the cinema, and also that we didn't wait til the 25th to watch it.

I shall be very glad to see the back of 2013...

Labels: AAARRGGHH, anniversaries, domestic disasters, films

Sainsbury's shop - haircut (he took a good 3 - 4 inches off at my request, will be a while before it needs doing again and my hair is now out of my eyes...) - second Sainsbury shop. There's still a few things we need to get but that's most of the shopping done now.

Tonight we watched Tekken, which I picked up cheap at a charity shop. Hm. Mostly harmless (if very violent).

24th anniversary tomorrow.

Labels: films, shopping

Forgot to say, yesterday we had to get back to the BRI for Kai's pentamidine nebuliser treatment: I was told they'd added it it to his usual Thursday appointment every fourth week but this week they'd got it wrong. Would have been OK but it was rush hour going back and the traffic was dreadful, in part because of this...

Today's appointment was nice and short - blood tests and talk with the doctor. He'll need blood and platelets on Monday, and to avoid such a horrendously long day (it usually ends up being 8 or 9 hours) we're back in on Sunday for a blood cross-match so they can have the blood ready when we get there on Monday (they have to take his blood, anlayse it, send the details off to be matched with blood from the store, then that has to go through a machine to be irradiated so there are no nasty antibodies in it, then it has to be brought to the day unit. All takes at least two hours and adds to the three hours minimum it takes for the actual transfusions. Add on another hour minimum for the platelets and you can see why it takes so long...) Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly. It would be nice to get home in daylight on Monday.

In other news, we watched Wolverine and really enjoyed it. And the fox was here last night - I watched him on the wall at the top of the garden (the PDSA has a PIR security light) before he jumped down into Dave next door's (from there he comes under the fence to ours). Quite a large and very beautiful animal he is too.

Labels: films, foxes, medical matters

Later edit:

... Lin gave me a haddock...

[sigh] So I decided to take the evening off, no rp-ing, no client stuff, just a rest: I'm tired and achey and grouchy and the next few days are going to be busy and I really don't want to go down with anything this Yule. I didn't even fancy visiting the Forest tonight: with this new machine I can't use my tablet, I have to shunt things around on my desk and use my mouse (which I don't like, that's why I got a tablet in the first place) so I thought to myself, aHAH, I'll watch a few of my playlist Tf music fanvids on Youtube, always a fun way to relax...

And over on the suggestion infopane to the right of my playlist was a full length fanvid of the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron game... 'Hm' I thought. 'Interesting. Let's take a quick shufti...'

I watched eight minutes. [headdesk] Ye gods, it's almost enough to persuade me to play the damned thing! Gorgeous designs, the most amazing soundtrack, fabulous cgi... The person who uploaded it was playing Bumblebee (Bayverse (and Prime) Bee, no voice - and some of the music was Bayverse too...), not my favourite chara but in context a good choice...

Dammit! I want to watch the whole thing but I don't have two and a quarter fragging hours to spare!!

... maybe xmas eve...? Can anyone give me haddock for Yule?

Labels: AAARRGGHH, grumpy, Transformers

Kai had platelets yesterday, which gave me an hour to dash around and get the last of the presents bought. The queue was out of the door at the Galleries main PO, so after we got home (around 2 pm) I went to our own up Sandy Park Rd. Still had to wait 20 mins but I did get everything posted.

Sains shop afterwards, then client stuff.

Today I headed up to Iceland at Broadwalk to hunt down Yule desserts and nibbles for the usual buffet... Very disappointing, nothing new or fanciable, and I'd better check what Kai can and can't have before I buy. I know anything resembling chicken goujons is forbidden, and I'd rather err on the side of safety. Tesco didn't have anything exciting either - it'll have to be Sainsbury's.

The weather was gorgeous today, so Kai came out into the garden to sort out bird feeders with me (thanks Sue!) I'd have liked to have done some gardening too but the legs objected.

Labels: busyness

BOOOOOOOKBAAAAAARN!!!

Sue and GoodTwin arrived just after twelve in GoodTwin's snazzy new car (loads of headroom. Very comfortable. Does everything but make the tea) and we headed off on the Wells Road. Thought we'd stop off at Whitehalls garden centre on the way, to see if I can find some replacement sedum, as I think our lovely autumn one (which came with the house) managed to catch weedkiller drift - it's not at all happy - and I need to replace it...

Heh. It's not a large place, and there were dozens of cars trying to find spaces, gridlocking the small car park for minutes at a time. The overspill parking (a field with a little tarmaced area) had a sign saying 'Do not park on the grass, you will get stuck', and indeed there were two people up to their ankles in mud trying to push cars onto firmer ground. We had to go in a little way in order to turn round, and the lovely shiny new red paint got splattered with oddly golden mud (looked quite seasonal!), and nearly got stuck ourselves, but the car has this thing called 'traction control' (I think it was) so we were OK. And managed to find a proper space too right afterwards!

No sedums, but I did find a pair of filled-in, fleecy lined crocs (£7.99, rrp £19.99) so very chuffed about that. The ones I have at the moment have those cut out holes and gardening in the winter means squelching around as the mud oozes in.

Getting out again was easier, and it was only about a quarter of an hour to the Bookbarn.

It's a great place! We spent hours browsing (literally, didn't leave til just before their 5 pm closing time) and left with a few finds. Sue unearthed a wonderful film quiz book (I didn't get the name of it - perhaps you can let me know, Sue?) and we spent fifteen minutes with our second tea/coke/hot chocolate from the friendly little cafe trying to answer some of the questions before she bought it and we headed back to Briz.

We ended up at the Black Castle for a meal (they do a really nice Chicken Tikka very cheap: Ken said he'd deal with dinner for him and Kai) and while waiting for our meals carried on with the quiz... It's a very strange little quiz, with some gloriously convoluted questions. And some insanely easy ones - the first section had all the answers as part of the question (e.g. What was the name of the film in which Tom Hanks' wish to grow Big was granted?) But the most hilarity was garnered from the section called Penile Delusions (please correct me if I've got that wrong!) I did know one of the answers (the naked wrestling scene with Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women in Love) but the others were... mm [evil grin] All this in the eating section of a fairly busy pub. Kudos to Sue for keeping her voice pretty low (although we did get some strange looks from passing customers, but what the hell: I've always said I want to grow old disgracefully!)

It was a fantastic day, wonderfully enjoyable, and the break and a bit of bawdy humour were just what I needed. [GLOMPS] to you both, and many thanks!

Labels: books, days out, friends, Whitehall Garden Centre

So, yesterday... what happened yesterday?

... can't remember. Oh, yes, I had a lie in! Did some client stuff. Met Ken for shopping. Watched DS9 and Agents of SHIELD, visited the Forest for a little while.

Today was more shopping - the Sunday shop, actually, as GoodTwin and Sue are visiting tomorrow. Did a little in the garden, some major sorting out in fridge and freezer, K&K put up the lounge decorations, and we wrote/enveloped/stamped all the Yule cards in the usual production line! That's the bulk of the Yule basics done now, though I still have one present to choose/find/post before the 18th...

I've finished the Panto review, but can't get my scanner to work for the programme. May have to take a photo and work it that way for now.

Fox was here last night, warbling again, just before three am. I suppose I ought to put out some dog food for him: he's started digging up my garden, and I have bulbs planted now...

Labels: busyness, client sites, foxes, garden

Dammit, I missed 9.10, 11/12/13...

Hospital appointment was only 30 minutes this morning - blood tests, line care and check in with the doctor (Kai's ciclosporin levels are a bit too high so he's skipping tonight and tomorrow am's tablets and then going back to 100 mgs twice a day until they check again on Monday. Ciclosporin is essential with this regime but can bugger your kidneys, hence they're being very very careful with the dose). So we got back around 12, had lunch, I did a tiny bit in the garden, a whole load of client stuff, then this evening we watched Cloud Atlas...

What a beautiful film. I thought at the beginning I wasn't going to like it, but as it went on and the various elements began to make sense I came to love it. And the end - oh, the end... Fantastic piece of work. I can see a lot of people hating it though. It's not an easy film at all.

Hoping tomorrow is going to be a relatively normal day. I've hardly spoken to Lutra for weeks and it's getting annoying. Planning to get some Leander done!

Labels: busyness, client sites, films, medical matters

So, yesterday was loooong again. Kai had platelets and two units of blood, as expected, and after getting there just after 10.30 am, we didn't get home until gone 8 pm. But he's looking better today, has more colour and a bit more energy. And his appetite is a little better again, which is always a relief.

Got some work work done today - finished the review but am waiting on photos to go with it. This evening we watched Percy Jackson; Sea of Monsters, which was... OK. Mostly harmless. A bit silly in places (but then so was the first film) and in one place too derivative of a scene from Harry Potter (third book? I forget) to be really satisfying. A pleasant enough way to spend an hour and a half with feet up after dinner!

Labels: busyness, films

Pretty much the usual Sunday. Sains and Tesco shop, then cooking. This evening watched The Hunger Games - enjoyed it more the second time around.

Labels: busyness, films, nowt really

So off I went to Glastonbury in search of foxes...

Now, you'd think, wouldn't you, that Glastonbury, that bastion of pagan lore and presumed-lover of the native Old Ways, would have loads of foxes. I mean, vulpes vulpes, hero of tale and lay, lore and film; cunning, quick, cheeky, adaptable, cute, brimming over with character, quintessentially British, hated by a few, adored by far more - there should be foxes every-bloody-where.

    

But no. I went to just about every shop in the town, and found just two, neither of which was suitable. Hares, yes, owls, a few - but mostly wolves. WOLVES!! They aren't even native here any more! And the shopkeeper I spoke to about it told me they get their supply of lupine goods from the States!! Why wolves, I asked? "Because everyone's claimed them as their spirit animal." I was answered. Pretentious wankers. Lone wolves too, no doubt...

Shame on you, Glastonbury. Shame on you.

Thoroughly disgruntled, I am. (Also very behind with the Panto review, but I am waiting for photos, that's my excuse.)

In case anyone is interested, mine is the native sparrowhawk, which is why I'm so pleased we have a pair in the area that visit the garden. It has been mine since I first learned of their existence when I was... ohhh... nine? Ten? Possibly even earlier, I can't remember when I wrote Sparrowhawk in Eden (a very early poem). I had one tattooed on my right shoulderblade when I was twenty-six (I think it was). It's a little faded now, but still a part of me forever...

(Images stolen from various places via google, with my apologies.)

Labels: days out, foxes, Glastonbury

Off with Kim today, to Almondsbury (via the tip), to pick up Rosa's crickets and Feather's rat weaners. [Thanks Kim!] Hopefully that will last them until after Yule...

... I'm sure there was something I wanted to say but I can't remember what it was. If I do I'll post it later/tomorrow.

Labels: Almondsbury Garden Centre, friends, pets

And today has been stupidly busy. In reverse order, tonight was St Luke's Yule AmDram, Pride and Prejudice - the Panto!, which Ken and I got free tickets for in return for my usual review, and it was great fun! Most enjoyable, and for once not too long. More tomorrow when I write it up.

Prior to that, I did a Tesco shop.

And prior to that it was Thursday hospital appointment. Heh. First thing that happened was the fire alarm went off. Since they usually test the alarms on Thursday to start with no-one took any notice - until they refused to turn off. So I got hustled out of the building down a not-yet-fully-finished internal fire-escape while Kai had to stay with the day unit staff, as he was booked in and any patients booked in HAVE to stay with their nurses to prevent firefighters having to go into a potentially burning building to look for 'missing' patients...

So I'm standing at the front outside the Children's Hospital (where the alarm went off) watching firefighters pile out of their fire engine and go check for fires, while Kai was led part of the way down the stairs - and then back up to the day unit (I assume they'd decreed it was all safe) where he got whisked into a chair, bloods taken, and by the time I got back there and we'd bought sandwiches (Kai normally gets a free one but the choice is very limited so I said I'd treat him, since we were expecting to be there for hours for blood and platelets. He got chicken mayo with salad and I had a roast beef with horseradish sauce and rocket. A bit pricey but the trolley sammijs taste wonderful) the doctor was ready to speak to us both...

[g] No-one is to get excited, as it's still early days and there's a long way to go, but he didn't need blood today. His blood cell count was less low than expected - which may mean his own bone marrow is starting to make them again. He'll definitely need some on Monday, and platelets too, but for now, that's two whole weeks without a blood transfusion. The most he's gone to date is 10 days, and it's usually every week.

We are very happy, but not taking anything for granted. But it's very encouraging...

Labels: busyness, medical matters

Tired. Very tired. Have pretty much caught up with everything I had to do though, and we've put up the downstairs Yule trees. Not the new hanging decorations yet - hopefully at the weekend.

There was a woodpecker in the bird feeder (at the suet cake holder) yesterday am.

Don't know if anyone remembers (probably not) but a while back I bought a box of eight Tf: Animated figures on ebay, which came without the weapons (although I found that Prowl did have both his shuriken). Well, I left a search on my ebay account for Jazz's nunchaku, just in case anyone had one to spare, and a week or so ago one appeared for sale! Picked it up for £1.04 (+ £1.40 p&p) - so he's now complete.

Wonder if I should do the same for Ratchet's tools and OP's axe... Perhaps better wait til Yule and see if they come with the figures, since Prowl's did. Not long now. Which is scary - I am nowhere near ready.

And it looks as though I may have a tacca chantrieri flower coming at last (how many years have I had the plant now?) The plant is not very happy - I haven't been able to give it very good growing conditions - but it is hanging on. I'll start photo-charting the progress tomorrow.

Labels: sheeeeeep, Transformers Animated, Yule

Last night was interesting - the first winter visit of our fox. Kai heard him first, barking all the way down the road. That turned into that wierd warbling that we think may be a mating call, grunting and snuffling. Then there was a lot of noise from the back garden so I opened the landing window and shone a torch down, to see the fox tearing around the garden like a mad thing. We guess he may have been hunting something out there - mice? Hopefully not rats...

Kai had platelets today - which means blood on Thursday. They've taken a cross match today and say they'll have everything ready when we get to the unit so we won't have the usual multi-hour wait. Fingers crossed...

Last bit of vanity from the Forest.

       

Labels: Endless Forest, medical matters, wildlife

Quick trip to the Forest before dragging my weary bones bedwards...

These antlers are really quite magnificent.

I ended up dancing with these good folk. The posture here is the 'listening' pose: it allows you to see where everything and everyone's glyphs are, very useful for finding the people you're looking for or orientating yourself.

There are a lot of new fauns in the Forest at the moment and it's so cute to watch them try out all the body language buttons and dance with the stags (including me, of course, I love dancing).

This tumble of rocks is the 'playground' - but I use it as second favourite place to sleep. It's dry and comfortable under that sloping rock. And what really shook me, when I first realised it, was that in real life that is the (second to) last place I would want to sleep, as my claustrophobia would kick in right away. (The last place would be inside the singing tree, my favourite place to sleep, which is even more enclosed.) I find this absolutely fascinating and I have no idea why it works that way...

Bed very soon I think, after Kai has his last aciclovir of the night...

Labels: Endless Forest

Last night I finally got the antlers I was waiting for!

I got enchanted with these too - they match my pelt - but decided to opt for the big dramatic ones...

Labels: Endless Forest