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scheduled water fights

Guardian headline:man charged over water fight

The Guardian have published a story about a guy being charged for arranging a ‘water fight’ using BlackBerry Messenger.

The chaps in in the picture illustrating the article are shown wielding what look like fairly hi-tech water pistols.

Certainly the ‘weapons’ look more efficient than those that I own, which, although pleasingly cheap and cheerful, are unfortunately made up of far too many sections and so tend to leak rather badly.
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not so dusty

Last time I was in the UK I noticed a copy of the magazine Practical Reptile Keeping in W H Smiths. I’m not sure whether the reptile in the picture is practical, but I made no attempt to keep him other than as a photograph.

The photo is for anyone who thought it a pity that yesterday’s lizard came to such a dusty end. (If the cats found this one after the photo session, ‘dusty’ won’t have described the ending.)

there’s a poem in the woodshed

I’m absolutely convinced, and have been since I first saw them six or seven years ago, that there’s a poem in the stacked logs in our greenhouse/shed.

The woodpile has obviously changed over the years, and there must be notes in half a dozen different places now, but the poem simply won’t come together.
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blues composition

When I reached for the camera to take this picture, I think there were actually four cats on the steps and it should have been titled ‘black and blue’, but the other three are younger, more agile and less amenable to having things pointed at them.

cat’s cradle

I think he wants to be a ship’s cat when he grows up.

(Edit 14/4/2013: anyone looking for invisible cat hammocks won’t find them here. You might try physicscentral for a light-hearted look at the subject, or download the pdf on graphene from the Nobel Prize site)