We were watching Torchwood on BBC2 and had the degus out for a bit of a run. We were also eating a few crackers for supper. The degus (or Podge Rats as we sometimes call them) seemed rather interested in them.
Emile seemed to really like the cracker, snatching it and trying to eat it all himself.
Remy was less bothered and took a nibble, but didn't try to take the whole cracker.
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| 12/Mar/2008 |
A couple of weeks ago, I read about a new beer from the Warwickshire based Purity Brewery. Called Farmers Market, it was the first alcoholic drink to get the 'Red Tractor' mark for British ingredients. We found a bottle of it in the Wayside Farm Shop at the weekend and got around to opening it tonight.
First impressions were of a fairly light flavoured beer, but after swallowing, the depth of flavour become more apparent. It's a tasty brew and I hope it finds its way into pubs, rather than being restricted to bottle sales.
Purity is only a small local-ish brewery and its beers are available in a few pubs in Coventry - I don't know whether they're as readily available in other parts of the country.
I was driving a hire car today. I don't know whether the University regularly hires automatic cars but that's what I got. It's only the 2nd time I've driven one - I'm more used to a normal manual gearbox. It feels weird driving a car without a handbrake or a clutch, and the sluggishness from a standing start is a bit annoying (although the last point may have been because it was also a diesel).
When I got back this afternoon and returned the car, I got back into my own car to drive home. It then started to feel weird needing to press the clutch. The steering also felt strange - the hire car had very light steering whereas my car doesn't have power assisted steering so it felt very heavy.
While I was out, I heard about an unexploded 2nd World War bomb found in the city centre. Later this afternoon I read about the ring road being closed in an anticlockwise direction, but it was open and moving freely when I drove home. It looks like I got home just in time.