It has been a long time since there has been a duck-related update on this blog, which is a shame, because there are actually rather a lot of beautiful ducks in our new house.

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A friend just sent me a link to some footage of a rather evil duck. Watch and be afraid, very afraid

In some happier duck news, Babel recently linked me to an exceptionally cool duck game.

Right, my T-mobile internet phone is malfunctioning at the moment, which is causing me one or two problems, but I had a rare sort of brainwave which allowed me to access a list of things which have been uploaded to my site, and from there I managed to find out the names of the pictures I was trying to post

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I have just had a very eventful weekend! My boyfriend didn’t have to work for the first time in ages, and so we were free to do what we liked That was exciting enough on its own, because the past few months have tended to consist of a few snatched hours between rail replacement buses, but added to that was something else to send my excitement to life-threatening levels: we now have a car!!! (more…)

…is now due to Babel who has done something amazing with my website If you look at the sidebar you will see that it is displaying one out of a collection of several utterly adorable pictures of ducks. I’ve no idea how he did it, but by some piece of magic there will now be a random duck displayed every time I click on the homepage, which is rather exciting. I would say he was the best boyfriend ever, were it not for the fact that he persists in cultivating a ridiculous moustache

I officially now have the best boyfriend ever I arranged to see him for Easter today, because various other things mean I’m not sure when I’ll next get to see him before and after that, and was admittedly hoping to get an Easter present. I had hinted strongly that he ought to buy me an egg this year and was prepared to be quite impressed if this hinting had paid off. Last Easter my boyfriend managed to have his phone switched off for about 48 hours whilst at a party and thus didn’t respond to my text wishing him a happy Easter until about Easter Tuesday, so this year I was hoping for a better experience, but all the same nothing could have prepared me for what actually took place today! (more…)