So - PhD application was unsuccessful - not surprised, was a bit miffed by the feedback (I ended up poking them when hadn't heard by a week pre interview dates and requested feedback if I hadn't been successful) - was told I had no lithics experience? When I had specifically detailed my lithics experience in my app? So yeah, sure, that was great ( Read more... )

Sad news the last few days with Victoria Wood (my mother has sent me too many death notices in texts this year, seriously) and Prince. :( It's a shame and both will be missed ( Read more... )

Appointment went better, I think - have a scan and some injections and actual follow up will be occuring, so happier than this time last week ( Read more... )

I hope everyone who celebrates/gets holiday has had a good Easter ( Read more... )

Sorry I've not been around much - between work and puppies, I don't spend much time online. (Work 7.30-15.30 - with about 45min travel time either side - puppies get fed at 4 and 8, with time out at 10 - spend an hour out going crazy - we're down to three feeds a day now though (c7, c12, c7) so shouldn't be so crazy - but walking starts for the ( Read more... )

We got a new book on siberians recently (the old one is ancient now - I was amazed when I found a toy that was advertised in it - even if it now looks completely differnt *g*) - it's very american - and very entertaining to go though, especially now we're veterans of siberians - they have us very well trained (well apart from Ma - who thinks that ( Read more... )

I had a really fun weekend *nods* even if I did get groped by Rex Buckland Neil Roberts, like pretty much everyone else *g*

It was lovely to get to see flubber2kool (who got kissed by BamBam ;)) and fififolle (yay! for you and your peeps winning the costume comp - your costumes were really good :D)
Also - nice to meet a tonne of new people including morbid_sparks and lovely_steph89 *hugs new ( Read more... )

This little fellow is my news :)


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Or at least I feel like it - one of the fish in the older tank died mysteriously in the night - so I am now getting paranoid that it was because of something I did - and keep going to check on the fish *eep ( Read more... )

As promised (if a little late) I come to offer pic spam of the dogs :)

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