infinite cat project

You can tell it's been a quiet day at work. Feast your eyes on this:

http://www.infinitecat.com/

Click on the picture of the cat with the rose, then keep clicking forward.

TeacherTube

First there was utube. Now there's TeacherTube. It has the benefit for me that the college hasn't noticed it and blocked it the way they have the equally bandwidth-hungry utube. It also has some cool stuff on it and some weird stuff too (including a talking, wig wearning finger telling you not to waste stationary in art lessons).

Mallydams

We went up to Mallydams on Saturday to visit Mr Biggleworth. He was looking great - fat and happy on mealworms. Mallydams was cool - there were all sorts of amazing animals that you don't normally see close up, including a seal. Thanks to Claire for our behind the scenes tour.

http://www.escis.org.uk/Entry/View/RSPCA:_Mallydams_Wood/8215

Mr Bigglesworth

On Saturday morning the doorbell rang. When we opened it there was no-one there, but there was this little fellow. Matt named him 'Mr Bigglesworth' after Dr Evil's cat in Austin Powers. I think he was a robin, or rather he still is a robin. It's been good looking after him - he's even been coming to work with me. When a colleague mentioned that a lady in reception volunteered for an animal sanctuary though I jumped at the chance to see him taken by a place that can rehabilitate him properly. He's thrived while he's been with us, but he's only a couple of days away from flying, and he couldn't come to work with me then :) The sanctuary came to collect him this afternoon and it was a little sad to see him go, but I'm really happy he'll have a better chance now. And we get to visit him on Saturday :)

gourds and stuff

Here's a nice website http://www.archaic-crafts.com. It's run by Dan at work and his missus for a village they met while on honeymoon a few years back. If anyone's looking for some genuinely fairly traded stuff or unusual gift ideas, this is a good place to start. A recent news report into abuses of the Fairtrade Logo and money by tea gardens in India may have left people feeling a little jaded about the whole idea, but there's loads of independent, small scale operators around for whom the welfare of their producers is their driving force. Enjoy. And try saying gourd without it coming out in a west country accent.