Birthday wishes!

One of the exciting bonuses of general disorganisation and crapness is missing loads of people's birthdays, so, for the last week, a VERY HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to the enigmatic leon783 , the lovely gracilejenn , who has one of the prettiest usenames on lj, the hopefully happily busy ishafel ,  my quite new friend kitkat1327 , the erudite and entertaining ceares, the genuine and lovely aliciajd , the young and adventurous bubblegumlocks (take care of yourself, gummy!), the insightful and really quite good gardener with ridiculous neighbours boxofdelights , and the kind and generous hitsuzen_hime (I hope things are all right with your friend).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TODAY to alaana_fair , who is as fair of heart as of name, and whose infectious glee keeps all of the fandom I see focussed on the important things (hot boys, good fic and art, and more hot boys); and to the equally lovely if sadly rarely seen these days ngelinadb . I hope that you both have a wonderful day with bucketloads of presents and all the people you most want to see!

Birthday wishes!

One of the exciting bonuses of general disorganisation and crapness is missing loads of people's birthdays, so, for the last week, a VERY HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to the enigmatic leon783 , the lovely gracilejenn , who has one of the prettiest usenames on lj, the hopefully happily busy ishafel ,  my quite new friend kitkat1327 , the erudite and entertaining ceares, the genuine and lovely aliciajd , the young and adventurous bubblegumlocks (take care of yourself, gummy!), the insightful and really quite good gardener with ridiculous neighbours boxofdelights , and the kind and generous hitsuzen_hime (I hope things are all right with your friend).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TODAY to alaana_fair , who is as fair of heart as of name, and whose infectious glee keeps all of the fandom I see focussed on the important things (hot boys, good fic and art, and more hot boys); and to the equally lovely if sadly rarely seen these days ngelinadb . I hope that you both have a wonderful day with bucketloads of presents and all the people you most want to see!

ARGH! THE LITTLE ONES!

I have a free hour and so am watching Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in a River Cottage Spring episode, and he has just caught, killed and cooked a cuttlefish. While that is the sort of carnivorism I approve of, I can't help feeling that it's like eating a quite bright dog. I knew that they were clever from seeing them underwater, but ever since watching The Brainy Bunch, a documentary showing the extreme cleverness of cuttlefish (Kings of Camouflage outside Australia), I can't help think of them as slightly cranky, fluorescing, tentacled border collies.

Despite not being a big meat eater, I am not a radical animal rights person, either, because we're all parts of the ecosystem and some parts are tastier than others (which is why I stay well out of the way of large sharks and big cats!). But horses, dogs and cuttlefish ... it'd be like eating a dolphin. Vegie soup for dinner after that, I fear.

ARGH! THE LITTLE ONES!

I have a free hour and so am watching Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in a River Cottage Spring episode, and he has just caught, killed and cooked a cuttlefish. While that is the sort of carnivorism I approve of, I can't help feeling that it's like eating a quite bright dog. I knew that they were clever from seeing them underwater, but ever since watching The Brainy Bunch, a documentary showing the extreme cleverness of cuttlefish (Kings of Camouflage outside Australia), I can't help think of them as slightly cranky, fluorescing, tentacled border collies.

Despite not being a big meat eater, I am not a radical animal rights person, either, because we're all parts of the ecosystem and some parts are tastier than others (which is why I stay well out of the way of large sharks and big cats!). But horses, dogs and cuttlefish ... it'd be like eating a dolphin. Vegie soup for dinner after that, I fear.