Entry 27 - Back in the swing of things

Hello again chaps, back in Kenya – back to the blog.

First a bit of a waffle about my trip to the UK, probably not all that interesting to most of you, so feel free to skip! It was a brilliant couple of weeks spent seeing family and friends and enjoying the sun without sweat. I spent a weekend in Southampton and had a mini reunion type affair, seeing a few people I haven’t seen for nearly a year which was most excellent. The other main event was VJ’s (my sister) 21^st, she rented the village hall and had a barn dance, loads of people came and the band were cracking, so a good night was had by all. Seeing Maddie again was pretty amazing as well.

The trip was finished off with a visit the London Zoo to meet with the marine biologist who runs their breeding project. It was a really interesting trip, their project is conservation based rather than commercial, so it’s on a smaller scale and they have to concentrate pretty heavily on keeping genetic diversity maximised. Whilst we don’t have to worry about that quite as much as they do it was good to talk about how they keep track of it all as it’s definitely something we’ll have to bear in mind. As well as it being interesting it was also a free trip to the zoo, which is always nice.

Since I’ve been back at work it’s been fairly busy actually, the brood that were doing well before I left are still going strong which is nice. Next week I plan to get them moved to another tank and start seeing how they respond to frozen food, a pretty major step. We’re getting on top of the culture of the other live foods as well, I’m going to really concentrate on that now, as we want to start using it on quite a large scale pretty soon.

On the non work front, I came back to three 10 day old kittens, their eyes are just starting to open and I should think they’ll start getting pretty boisterous soon:

The dogs are all pretty curious about them as well, in particular the newest addition called Dolly (because she looks a bit like a sheep, she’s a complete mongrel, I think there’s a bit of pretty much everything in here, dalmatian to wolfhound and everything in between!).

I’m also on the verge of moving into my new flat:

Unfortunately the car I use has currently got a busted gearbox so until that’s sorted it’s much easier to get to and from work from Penny’s house as there are builders being dropped off here in the morning so I can get a lift to and from with them. The flat’s in a stunning location, I’m really looking forward to getting in there properly.

That’s the lot for this week I think, hope you’re enjoying it.