I've also: been to some friends for a lovely evening and a fantastic meal, seen The Two Towers{Currently no. 8 in the imdb top 250 if anybody's counting, thrown a party (alarmingly at midnight all of the guests turned into Marks), and spent a day with our two neices - one aged 3 years, the other 2 days :-)
That was the short version - I feel some elaboration coming on :-)
Firstly, the movie. I'm going to offer only three words on the subject and promise not to include any spoilers: See It. Now! Unless you haven't seen the first one yet, in which case your mission is to watch the first one, and then go see it.
The party was thrown because it's Christmas and we've been too busy to get drunk with our friends of late :-) By some strange quirk of fate, there was an unusally high concentration of people called Mark amongst the guests, leading us to a point in time in which our house contained us, and 4 Men Named Mark.
And on to the kiddies. I spent half an hour being shown the internet by a 3 year old today. We played all sorts of games and things, some of which were really cool. I have to admit to being very impressed by some of the stuff out there for very small people. Despite not being able to read yet, our neice is a lot more proficient on the web than her grandma!
Back to work for the next couple of days, but starting to actually look forward to Christmas now :-) This year we're having my parents to stay, but after that I'm hoping for some proper relaxation and blogging time. If I'm not back before then, enjoy the festive season.
Prompted by james leaving a comment on snowcat, I thought I'd see if I could find an update on the hedgehogs of Uist story I covered earlier in the year. And a well timed prompt it was too - just 3 days ago the BBC have reported that the hedgehogs probably will be culled despite public objection (mainly from England). Interestingly, only 2 complaints were received from the Western Isles, who are the people with the problem. It seems the English are more concerned about the hedgehogs, which are supposedly plentiful (although I don't think I've seen one in a good 15 years or so!) than the endangered birds which could be wiped off the planet by said prickly creatures.
Friday the 13th passed without any major incidents for me. I'm not superstitious (I love spell-checkers!), so I mention this for one reason only. Saturday the 14th is throwing out bizarre coincidences at an unusual rate! I read a comment on my last post featuring the word "mayhem". which then turned up in a crossword I did immediately afterwards. Then went looking for my previous posts on the hedgehogs. The a post I cross-linked to also contains a link to an article on albino hedgehogs.
