tiggymalvern | Summing up and Animal Spammage

So I've been all quiet again recently. This is mostly because I haven't been doing anything remotely interesting. I've spent large chunks of three days out of the last seven in the enthralling environs of bathroom showrooms, as a result of which we have now selected our sinks (woot! Or something.) I've been spending many additional hours researching on the internet things far less interesting than porn, and I've narrowed down the bath to just three models, the final selection to be based on tiny bits of detailed information I now can't get till next week, since the Americans have this turkey thing going on a month early.

We did go to see Metropolis last weekend - there's a new print out combining the existing footage from all known edits and negatives, and SIFF cinema put on a whole weekend of screenings. There are short interspersed screens summarising the plot of missing sections, but they aren't intrusive at all - it's a silent film, so you're reading text on a black screen intermittently anyway, a bit more does no harm. I'd never seen it before, but the SO had, and he said this version with the explanations made a lot more sense!

I went half-expecting to be bored by a relic of historical interest only, but I really enjoyed it - even by modern standards, it had some moments of fabulous direction and choreography. I can only imagine how it must have blown people away in 1927. (It must have been extremely risque for its time too.)

In an attempt to make this post of even passsing interest, I'm tagging on

These are from a couple of weeks ago - the mammal room has actually been empty on my last two visits. No more bottle-feeding for this year....

I give you the near-unsurpassable dose of cute that is a flying squirrel.

Possibly the only thing cuter than one flying squirrel must be two :-)

A warning of the wickedness of your ways - not washing the formula off the baby squirrels after they eat results in some rather bald-faced squirrels! Fortunately, as soon as they wean off milk, they regrow fast, and this batch are now looking almost respectable again XD

And finally, my dear

evildrem - I got your package of goodness! They actually tried to deliver it last week when I was out, so I had to go to the PO to collect it. And they do work. Many thanks for the hot men :-)