New sensations!

As Willow is convinced she is on a constant diet, she relishes the rare treats she gets. Two of her favourites are licking the inside of crisp packets and anything spicey. So you can imagine her joy when she was permitted to lick the inside of a packet of Sensations' Thai sweet chili crisps - especially as they are a large packet.

Annual bath and catch-up

I got the first draft of my dissertation in on time and have got some feedback on it. I have lots to do on the results section, but otherwise I think it's going ok-ish. I've planned my time so that I should have the review essay, the final dissertation and the webpage finished a couple of days before their respective due dates. I've also received feedback on the general essay and I got a 19 which I was pleased with (20 is the most you can achieve with Aberdeen uni's marking system).

My time management seems to have improved anyway as I even got around to giving Willow

her Christmas bath. She wasn't impressed.

Just like the movie 'Saw...'

Thought I'd post a photo of Gareth's ankle a couple of days after he got the stitches in from having the screws removed.

I'm a student with procrastinating to do, what can I say?

Ticked off

Aarg! I'm so fed up with ticks! I can't wait to be done with the little acarid buggers. The end is in sight however, as the first draft is due on the 10th December and I've already written a rough intro, materials and method, outlined my results and am writing the reference list as I go (don't underestimated how long the last can take), so I have the discussion to do and general tarting up.

I'm actually looking forward to writing the 6000 word review essay! I also have to design a web page based on the tick project, but I quite like learning HTML so I'm looking forward to that too. I feel I may be eating my words soon enough though.

Well, it didn't take her long, but I caught Willow constructing a bed from the laundry:

Screw loose

After over three months, Gareth finally got the screw taken out of his leg today. The day didn't start well though with a mix up between two of us in the building ordering taxi's for the same time, but After just a three hour wait, Gareth got his op under local anaesthetic and was ready to go after a couple of hours observation (the op itself only took about 10 mins). That's when the paperwork got involved, or rather didn't. After arriving in hospital at 9:30am, we didn't get home till gone 7pm as the doctor took about five hours to chase up the one section of a form required before the nurses would discharge Gareth - the nurses were great, and were equally irked by the tardy form.
Once home, I realised in the excitement of freedom that I left Gareth's air boot (the inflatable boot that helps him walk) in the reception, so hopefully it'll turn up - although it's a forty min walk there so not looking forward to that! The other downside is that we don't have any hot water. Our boiler was leaking so we got a plumber out who declared the emersion tank was split, drained it of hot water and left, telling us he would call when he could get hold of another tank. Hmmm. What with the fiasco with BT I think we should rename this flat Bermuda Triangle, Basement Right.

Serious munchies

As Draco has been growing (he's over 3' now), his food has had to be increased in size too. He's now pretty much on adult mice.

It looks greedy when you watch him dislocate his jaw, but if you only got fed once a week and someone waved a sandwhich under your face, you'd probably do the same!

Slow on the uptake

I finally got a photo of Willow residing beneath the radiator. I think I mentioned previously that she's only just realised she could sleep under it. Though I think she's sulking here as we refuse to move her bed there. We're just waiting for her to steal the clothes from the clothes-horse for a make-shift bed.