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My web browser is lagged to hell and back, so it's once again time to clear out the links that are cluttering up my tabs.

Warning: Do not click while eating. THIS is literally just round the corner from where I live. It explains A LOT about why there are suddenly humungous traffic jams in Kingston. It's because there's a "bus-sized" "fatberg" blocking the drains, and Thames Water is doing emergency engineering work to try to get it out. EWWWW.

xoJane: My Starbucks name is Rebecca. As someone who has a deep-seated phobia of telling strangers her name, I really empathise with this article. And the comments. Oh my.

Worst Album Covers of All Time. Okay, one of these is clearly female body-hair shaming, and one of the others is non-conventionally attractive woman shaming, but most of the rest? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Having said that, there's nothing wrong with that Orleans album cover apart from the fact that one of the men does not have a beard, and one of the others has a hairless chest.

BBC Nature News: Wolf howl identification technology excites experts. ARROOOO!

Pervocracy: I just figured out why I get patted down every time I fly! Anger-making, but also funny: like all the best rants.

More about how I am some other time.

Current Mood: okay

I think I've figured out what we're doing on Bank Holiday Monday: the UK Wolf Conservation Trust (vaguely near Reading) is having an open day!

After having no cubs for ages, suddenly they have six - three grey wolves and three Arctic wolves!

I just wish the Trust had less sucky merchandise - it's almost all New Age hippy nonsense, or crap like the zipped fleeces where the zip runs right through the middle of one of the wolves. I wish they had more things that I wanted to buy.

Current Mood: excited

Today we are sad because Alba, the disabled wolf at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust, has died. He broke his back 4.5 years ago (the vertebra concerned was equivalent in a human to the one that left Christopher Reeve paralysed) but was nursed back to health and was able to walk with a pronounced twist in his back and severe limp. This winter, the staff at the wolf park were concerned that his nerve damage seemed to be getting worse, and on January 23rd he eventually became completely paralysed in his hind legs and unable to stand. As there is no such thing as a wolf wheelchair and wolves need to be physically active to enjoy life, the decision was made to put him down.

I'll post photos of Alba when Richard gets round to getting them off his camera and uploading them somewhere!

Current Mood: sad

I'm rather annoyed because the vegetarian roast I wanted for Christmas Day has been discontinued. If I'd known they were going to discontinue it, I'd have stocked up... but I've actually been trying to stock up on it for months now. Just couldn't find it in any real-life wholefood shops, and I'm rather leery of online ones. (Principally because a lot of them don't have their online ordering system linked to their stock information, so you can order something and then find it'll be out of stock for the next 2 months). So I'm going to have to find something else to eat, and the other seitan roast I know of is 20% fat for no apparent reason. I might have to... make one. (Possibly more effort than I can be bothered with considering we're already going to be cooking a lump of meat and as many different types of vegetable as possible).

The rest of this post is almost exactly a copy-and-paste of my post from last year. Yay, livejournal tags!

[Poll #1496033]
*Most of this year's cards say "A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year". But they are super-awesome and have a beautiful wolf on them. One that I have actually met in real life :)

I like getting cards at least as much as I enjoy sending them. But I don't care about reciprocity - if you can't afford to or don't have the spoons to send a card, then I'm happy to send you one without you needing to feel guilty about not sending me one.

Current Mood: annoyed (about Yagga being dis

Here's an awesome set of photos that I should have posted the day I saw them: Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award. Features wolfy!

Also, I should be packing right now because we're off to Berlin tomorrow. Half of the clothes I want to take are still in the wash though. Argh!

Won't be reading much. See you when we get back.

Today, London had snow. About 8 inches of snow. As a result, all the buses and trains were cancelled and most people got a day off work/school/college. This may be hilarious to those of you for whom 8 inches of snow is a daily occurrence at this time of year, but we're just not geared up for it. Snow doesn't happen here often enough for people to have chains for their tyres or anything useful like that. Most people don't even have snow boots!

Anyway - I went out and built a snow wuzzie and wolfy in our front garden. They're not very wonderful because I haven't played with snow for about 20 years, but they do at least look like a wuzzie and wolfy! You can click on the photo for a bigger version.


Snow Wolfy Made by me, 2009-02-02.	Snow Wuzzie and Wolfy Made by me, 2009-02-02.

Current Mood: SNOW!

Why did no one ever tell me there's a Wolf Conservation Park near Reading[1]?

Even granted that a) Berkshire[2] is full of small villages and b) it's not open to the public, you have to be a member, it's still REALLY NEAR HERE.

Pronunciation guide for North Americans: [1] RED-ding, [2] BARK-sher.

Current Mood: WOLFY!

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Entries tagged with wolfy

Links of the week.

Wolf Cubs - Bank Holiday Monday

R.I.P. Alba

Christmas cards - the 2009 version.

Leaping wolf!

Snow Wuzzie and Snow Wolfy!

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