Shere'ly you Kahn't beleive it...

You'll pardon the pun based upon Kipling's dastardly tiger, because today I went to the zoo for free - by gatecrashing my friend Louise's biology conference on animal behaviour. The conference was an open conference, but was really meant for people researching animal behaviour. It was extremely interesting, especially the more philosophical lecture on the issue of the human tendancy to apply a certain level of anthropomorphism to animals - which with regards to the possible expression of animal emotions has an obvious implication for the study of their welfare.

Anyway, the institute where the conference was being held (which incidentally provided very good coffee and biscuits first) has no lunch facilities, so you go into the zoo to use their cafe. Then you get to wander round the zoo for a bit. It was brilliant fun, and the bearded pigs were by far my favourite.

Then this afternoon I didn't go back to the conference but headed to the V&A to meet a friend. Saw some lovely renaissance church silver; including one very beautiful hanging pyx that Bede would have melted over.

I am now on the Oxford Tube, stuck in MAJOR TRAFFIC despite getting on at about 4.30pm (After having to wait for about 25 minutes for the bus). I'm getting rather worried that I'm going to miss the first half of the OULES panto.