busy busy

I somehow have another translation - somebody's business is picking up out there, or maybe it's just the aftermath of everyone making their in-house translators redundant.  Got to get it done before half term and EMA marking.

I keep saying I'll have free time in another week or so, and it still looks like that, but who knows.  If the translations keep coming, I should grab them while they're there and I'm not busy with Unreal Uni work.  On the other hand it would be nice to see friends...  I do plan to get to the beer fest for lunch either today or, more likely, tomorrow.

So I'd better get back to that German medical report.

In other news, Speedy if grateful for all the offers and inquiries, of which he's had many here and elsewhere.  He'll be making his decision over the weekend, if he's not too cold to think.

Speedy happy ending?

Thank you for all the kind offers of homes for Speedy.  We were planning to spend the weekend working out the best thing to do, but the decision has been made for us by a new offer today.  We heard from a family in Cambridge with a lonely lady tortoise called Toby.  (It's a long story.)  Toby is larger and enjoys a spacious, well-tortoise-proofed garden, so she ought to be able to keep him in his place in all senses.  We've thought for a long time the old reptile must be very lonely, and he certainly goes looking for love every May-June (and finds it occasionally in odd places like lumps of chicken wire).  So lets all hope Toby likes him.

Sorry to disappoint the many people who offered to have him.  It seems unfair to give him to the person who already has a tortoise, but we hope the outcome will be two very happy tortoises.  Who knows, perhaps there'll be tortoise eggs...

If Toby doesn't take to him, we'll have him back (or rather, we hope bugshaw, tamaranth and ozymandias_cat will) while we go back to the offers.  So please reply here or, better still, send me an email if you'd like to go on his waiting list.

( Here's a picture of the lovely Toby for you to admire )

( and compare with the handsome Speedy )

Please can we have warm weather on Sunday afternoon?  We can't arrange a tortoise first date if it's too chilly for either of them to wake up.