Today’s otters are courtesy of Cute Otters. These Asian Short Clawed triplets were born at the Chessington Zoo to parents Guinevere and Lancelot.
*iz ded*
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
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Categories: arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies, Life
100 books by women in 2016 
Vale David Bowie 
Jurassic World – Movie Review 
#AWW Book Review: Mateship with Birds 
Hoyden About Town 
I am currently reading “Dawn: Xenogenesis 1″ by Octavia Butler, and it is made of awesome, as have been all the books of hers I’ve read so far (“Parable of..” and “Fledgeling”). VERY hard to find copies of her stuff in Australia, unfortunately.
I’ve just finished reading Sunshine, by Robin McKinley – brilliant. Also not that easy to get her stuff in Oz, as she’s currently lacking an Australian publisher.
According to some zoologists I know, Chessington Zoo doesn’t have a great record on animal welfare. They were threatened with losing their license to house gorillas last year.
That’s quite interesting that both of those authors are hard to get in Australia. I was fortunate enough to get to meet Ms Butler before her death when she came to speak to a class I was in, and she was a brilliant person with brilliant work.
As for McKinley, I enjoyed Sunshine more than a bunch of the other Girl Meets Vampire books out there, but haven’t reread it. Right now I’ve got Melissa Scott’s Night Sky Mine in progress (ask me about my issues with her Shadow Man some other time) and LeGuin’s Always Coming Home on deck, as well as a John Barnes I may or may not get to.
I have just discovered the online to-do list Remember the Milk, which has a Firefox extension that integrates with Gmail (it just sits there next to your messages) and it talks to Google Calendar as well, and Google Calendar can now be checked on my mobile phone.
Are all my excuses for disorganisation about to be vaporised?
Perish the thought. Organisation is the enemy of creativity, or something, and furthermore somewhat else about enslavement to digital/cybernetic overlords. Mind you I did graduate summa cum laude from the University of Greater Pfaff so it may be best to ignore. On a minor whingeing note (D minor for preference) has the type in the sidebar become too weensy to read commentors’ names? I am only 41 I am TOO YOUNG for bifocals.
I bought a new cow hat!
It is so awesome. I must put up photos soon, but I slept through the half hour of sun we had today. But it’s a woolen cow hat from New Zealand, and it’s fair trade, and it’s A COW HAT OMG.
Sue #6:
I’m still playing with the typography, Su. I’ll see if I can tweak it up a size.