Another week has come and gone, and here I am, writing this out once more. To say this last week was uneventful would be a lie, but to say it was eventful would be pushing at the boundaries a little bit. Let's get started on the first day of my week - Monday.
Expedition Planning and Skills was a little more focused at us as people rather than learning anything new. Our lecturer wanted to find out what kind of things we as people would like to do on any expeditions in future. For me, as those of you you know me will know, this is pretty much anything where an animal will be that I can film, regardless of what I have to go through to find it. But next week should be better as we'll be having a day out to learn navigation.
There were no hares this time, but what can you do.
Biodiversity on Tuesday wasn't particularly fun - but that was probably because it was a nice day right up until the point where we went outside to look at the different species of tree around the campus and I had no waterproof. But, I reasoned to myself that I was probably going to have to go through much worse than this to film things in future so I bore it without complaint. Other than this it was quite an interesting lecture, and I now know a good deal more about broadleaf trees than before. I could probably pick out oak, holly, silver birch and horse chestnut before that lesson, but now I could show you ash, rowan, beech, hornbeam, sweet chestnut, elm, lime sycamore, maple and hawthorn. And I'm still learning more. Conifers next week.
Wednesday was a bit lame. I went into Penrith on my bike to search for a DVD shop, as Walk on the Wild Side had come out on Monday. I explored the whole town and found only one - Blockbuster - and it didn't have it. Then I went to Morrisons and bought so much stuff that it didn't fit in the bags I had brought. This meant I had to leave it open and hope that the stuff in it didn't spill out.
It did. I lost the carton of milk, as it split all over the pavement. 4 pints of it lost. And since I was almost all the way back I really couldn't be bothered to turn around.
Oh well. At least I had some chocolate Frijis.
Thursday was a busy day. The Media practical in the morning was greatm because we were finally able to get outside and take pictures of random stuff to allow us to get used to the ISO function (just don't ask me what that means.) I got ahead of the game by photographing a pigeon, while everyone else did trees. I also photographed a fire hazard sign and a toilet.
On Friday I went back to Morrisons and bought more milk, as well as some cakes.
Saturday was a great day, because at 12:30 we went to a place called Martindale to look for rutting red deer. It was a little disappointing in that we didn't actually see any male deer smashing their heads together, but this was made up for by the sheer number of deer we saw on the day. There were three seperate herds within half a mile of each other. One had fifteen deer, one had twenty and one had forty deer. I got some great videos of them all trotting across the hills.
And I got back in time to watch Merlin. Hooray!
Today had been rather dull in the grand scheme of things. I was woken up by a groaning pipe at seven-thirty in the morning. The pipe continued to groan, loudly, for half and hour before it packed it in. My other doormates were too far gone to hear it. I blame the alcohol they consumed the night before. And then I cleaned the fish tank. Kurt and Pikachu are doing rather well, although we have to stop one of our dorm-mates dropping Frustration pieces and conkers in the tank.
And that's about it really. See you all. I hope you're all having a good time.
ML, signing off.
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