[	Tags	|	bicnic, garden, harry potter, house, rowing, shaldon, wedding	]
[	Current Mood	|	happy	]

• Became members of Shaldon Wildlife Trust and finally saw their gentle lemurs (a huge ambition when you own all of Gerald Durrell's books!)
• Discovered we need a new shower - on top of the new washing machine, oven, shed and fire =P
• Wonderful Tom boarded the loft so we could unpack and store boxes, so our house looks a lot more homelike =)
• Put liner in our very leaky pond and discovered we have 22 fish, 30 newts and various frogs and toads - goodness knows how the fish survived in 5cm of water for the last few years!!
  
• Got rid of a fair bit of horrible conifer hedge
• Went to the jazz concert picnic and fireworks at Bicton Park
• Read Harry Potter 7 =D
• Watched Harry Potter 5 - the quality of those films just gets better and better!
• Picked up my wedding dress, it's lovely! =DDD
• Received the best (video!) wedding RSVP ever =D
• I've started attending novice rowing sessions in Seine boats  (4 people + cox)
• We took part in novice Pilot Gig racing (6 people + cox) - our team didn't do so well, but we came second in the land race (rowing machines!) and it was all great fun =)
  

[	Tags	|	bath, house, shaldon, wedding	]
[	Current Mood	|	content	]

• I've had an enjoyable week! Last weekend we wandered around Bath - it's such a beautiful and unique city =)
• We've also been viewing loads of houses and flats - we've seen some nice places (and some not so nice ones). Unfortunately on our budget there's always going to have to be a compromise, but it's nice to know we can get something half-decent =)
• Yesterday we went to Teignmouth to see houses, and a cute little zoo we only discovered because the description of the house said "near to the zoo" =P It has loads of endangered species rather than the classic 'crowd-pullers' and is mainly run by volunteers - we spent a very pleasant afternoon poking marmosets =)
  
• Ooh and I've just sent off the forms to provisionally book our wedding ceremony and reception!! If all goes to plan (fingers crossed), we're getting married in a nice place in Exeter, then having a 3 hour cruise on our local estuary for the reception =D

I have to share this GORGEOUS photo I found on Flickr - it's got to be one of my favourite pictures on there! Hvhe1 is an extremely talented photographer - it's well worth a look at her photostream =)

"Victory!!!" by hvhe1

Inspired by a post by nonickname96, I thought I'd note down some of my animal welfare related opinions - mostly for myself, plus it will be interesting to look back and compare in the future (my views now are vastly different from when I was a teenager - having now learnt to research both sides of every argument and not just swallow one-sided statistics)

I'll LJ-cut it, but please feel free to read... animal rights is definitely not a black-and-white area (particularly when mixed with a science degree =P..) =)

• Work was fun this week - I got to go out on a boat and help save wriggly marine creatures! =D
• The cold is making the birds really tame - this morning I nearly stepped on a dunnock and a robin when I was walking down the lane to work =P
• We went up to the cliffs and saw Napoli on Saturday... Have been watching the effects worsen all this week - poor birds =(