my blog . . . . and my family

it is just under a week later and i remember that i have a blogspot. it was my aim to pudate (sorry, update) our blog regularly, so this is what i am doing. here are my brothers and sister. top are my mum, my dad, marc and his love karen, then comes eric the philosopher, below carole my sister in the snow, followed by marc somewhere in the planets, and my bum riding back home in cambridge. hope no one minds being sent around the world . . .

we went 'black-currant-picking' on wednesday evening and had a great time. one joke that cirulated was: why do gorillas have big nostrils ? and here is one for philippe: what are three words for 'short'. (answers at the end, if i don't forget). we also talked about smoking while we were eating greasy english fish and chips on a south-cambridge-neighbourhood green. rio was running all over the place and doing little tricks in exchange for chips.

i have been out observing dogs everymorning, mapping their spatial pattern of scent marks. it is fascinating to recognize all the dogs by now and observing trends. but it can also be very cold in the morning especially on windy days. so when i come in to uni i am usually like a block of ice when everybody else walks around nearly topless.

elie found car-full of bazaaaar in a posh village south of cambridge. when i saw that i nearly had a heart attack. but we are going to sell it all on the carboot sale on sunday morning, so i will feel much better then. today he went up to prestwick to buy some more furniture for the shop. this is about 3h north of cambridge.

oh, and here is the answer to the gorilla anatomy: because they have big nostrils !!
and the three words are 'is' 'it' 'in'.

i may be back before the end of the weekend. let me see if i can find a picture.