Guess who's going to Tanzania tomorrow!

Have just packed. How I have so much stuff I don't know. It is a little daft. But it did only take me 2 attempts to get it all in, which is a definite improvement. But so much stuff! The only extras to the kit list I have is my big camera, which does take up a lot of room, but will be worth it to play with it ( Read more... )

Eeeeeeeee! 2 days ( Read more... )

So, I leave for Tanzania in ONE WEEK! I will be... somewhere over Europe I guess, still 14 hours from arriving in Dar es Salaam (oh, that sounds like a long time... just as well I like flying. Except that does include 5 hours in Doha airport.)

Have now reached the stage in my excitement when nothing will keep me entertained for longer than about 30 ( Read more... )

Nice shiny new laptop is not working *sigh* The touch pad is doing nothing and as no one in our house owns a mouse there is nothing I can really do with it. However as it is les than a month old I will be taking it back to the shop later today (if I can fit it in before my riding lesson). Am currently waiting for it too back up my files as I did ( Read more... )

Reading the safety guidelines for Tanzania:

"Do not treat snake bits with cold packs (snakes are cold blooded)"

Ummm, that's nice? But really not relavant. You'd rather hope that a conservation NGO would have some basic knowledge of biology maybe?

(Snakes being cold blooded actually has no relavance to the temperature of their blood. In fact animals ( Read more... )

It's cold and raining outside. How is this August? Bloody English weather.

Does give me an excuse to curl up on the sofa with a book (or laptop) and a cup of tea though, which is not so bad.

( Books )

 I cannot learn languages. This is what I have decided ( Read more... )

This entry is basically me trying out whether I have dreamwidth crossposting to LJ. Which means I don't really have anything interesting to say, but I will anyway.

Went riding on Saturday. Was a little disappointed when I arrived as I had been promised a horse (we have some amazing horses, £30,000 competition horses. Amazingly talented but also very ( Read more... )

Been in the new house for 2 weeks now. Feeling settled in, although I don't think it is going to feel like mine as I'm just staying 3 months. Still no internet, which is rather annoying as the small amount of work I do have relies on it (and, well, I like it!), but the guys I'm living with don't seem in much of a rush to sort it, and as I'm not ( Read more... )

 So, that's the degree done then ( Read more... )