Mischief Managed

I seem to have been running around like a headless chicken for the last week - I didn't get to watch the new Doctor Who until Monday!!!!1!1

I was in Germany for a meeting on Monday evening and Tuesday (and the only freak weather this time was sun! It was beautiful!) so missed two days there and spent Sunday driving to Oxford and back to see my brother and his girlfriend's flat (very posh). I drove there and back without doing a motorway which is probably why the journey took three hours instead of one and three-quarters! I did do some very large dual-carriage ways though and once got up to a nose-bleeding speed of 78mph!! My car is now covered in dead insects so not only am I contributing to global warming (although I'm enjoying this freakish weather at the moment! ;)) through my exhaust emissions, I'm now also responsible for squishing many flies. Woe.

niannah - nag me tomorrow to book the hotel for G3. I got the number this afternoon but then didn't have time to do it.

ETA: Communications Course: How to respond to rude emails in your personal or professional life. Heh. It amused me!

Also, Beatbox Cooking - this is bizarre and funny!:

Aaaargh. Why am I so disorganised?! I'm knackered and I've got to finish packing for my trip to Rotterdam tonight as I'm going straight down to my friend's house in London after work tomorrow to get the flight on Friday morning. It's too hot and I can't be bothered. I just need to make sure I've got my passport in my bag and I'll be fine...

How did I not already have a tag for moaning?!

Oh, and I've still got two invites left for Vox if any one is interested. Comment with your email address and they're yours.

ETA: Ew. I was just wrapping up my friend's birthday present at the dining table when I noticed that there was a large yellow slug sitting looking at me from the table top. Where the fuck has that come from?! It soon found itself back outside.

SQUEEEEEE! David Tennant continues to be fabulous! And very hot (in that weasely kind of way). Good start to the new series!

I'm looking after one of my friends guinea pigs at the moment because we have a lawn full of out of control grass in the garden, and she has none because she's just had the lawn re-turfed. This is fine, but I just had to throw my jumper in the washer because omg. Guinea pig poo stinks. It's very cute though!

ETA: I've just looked at my f-list and I've totally ripped off the title of this post from maryavatar. That was obviously a bit of the episode that sticks in the brain!

It's got cold enough this week to put the horses in overnight for the winter. My hands are rough already! They're both bedded down on wood shavings instead of straw this year to try and control Kaz's cough. I'm not entirely sure how to muck out a shavings bed so this morning was spent picking up small pieces of poo with rubber gloves wondering how on earth you're supposed to do it without taking 23949028 hours. Hmmm. I think we need to get a shavings fork.

I rode Kaz yesterday and she was dripping with sweat by the time we got back. I daren't get on Oscar - I'm frightened that his riding days have come to an end. He's pretty much lame all the time now and he looks like such an old man. Maybe I'll try and get on him the weekend after the con (OMG next weekend!)

I found a huge spider in the hay barn yesterday. It was almost as big as my palm with its legs outstretched. Not that I picked it up with my hands - I just coaxed it on to a pair of scissors to try and take a photo that didn't come out.

When we got home from the field this afternoon there was dog sick everywhere. I'm not sure why but it was the most unpleasant sick I've ever had the misfortune to come across. Nice. And now I'm going to go and watch Nip/Tuck before I traumatise you any further.