It is mildly surreal...

...to see rain pouring down in a sunlight clearing fifty yards away from where one is sitting, perfectly dry.

breakfast

2 muffins, toasted and (light) buttered
a small spadefull of sliced mushrooms, fried (in canola oil)
three (small, vegetarian) sausages
Ethiopian shade-grown, fair-trade coffee

Sadly, the musrooms taste a little off. I have to remember they're best cooked ASAP, not kept a while. OTOH, it could just be the canola oil. I'd better eat the rest, just so as to see...

snowy badgers

It struck me that I don't have any icons of badgers in the snow which, since my journal is named winterbadger, is quite an omission.

Now, of course, badgers like to stay warm and dry in their setts during the winter whenever possible (though late winter is badger mating season, so they're out and about a good bit more then), and they're nocturnal and shy to begin with, so there aren't a lot of snowy badger photos out there. But I found three, on sites from Scotland, Wales, and one from the UK but showing a Russian badger. I also found this nice site about badgers.

If you have the time, please do visit these sites and please consider supporting a badger- or other wildlife-protection group. Wild animals are having an increasingly difficult time, as more and more land is "developed" and creatures who would not normally come into contact with humans do so, often to the disadvantage of the wild creatures.

Edit: Steve Clark of Gwent Badger Group kindly allowed me to use his copywritten badger photo for one of my icons; to see the original, go to this page.

let's hear it for retreads!

I've been watching episodes of "This Life", a BBC ensemble drama from 1996 that BBC America has jjust started showing. It's simply wonderful, with all sorts of good actors in it (Jack Davenport of Coupling, Andrew Lincoln of Teachers, the beautiful and talented Amita Dhiri who's been in one or two one-off TV eps I've seen, and Daniela Nardini, Jason Hughes, and Luisa Bradshaw-White, who are also quite good). Good writing, good acting, engaging characters and stories... I hope we get all thirty-something episodes.

It, like some other 'young adult friends living in the city' shows, makes me wonder about how my life would have been different if I'd not got married basically right out of college, if I'd gone out and lived on my own, or with friends, for several years as I got used to being an adult. Would I be different? Would I see things differently? Would I have different attitudes on how to relate to people? I don't know.

Well, I should finish watching this ep; I promised to sort books with redactrice and shy_kat this afternoon.

DC v. KC

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