who only by moving can balance

Today has been for Errands, including the errand of Getting A Full CO₂ Canister, which requires driving most of the way to Whipsnade Zoo on a weekday.

So we did that (via returning a library book, and dropping things off at a charity shop, and buying vitamins, and stopping at the pharmacy, and visiting the tip where I maybe slightly acquired another cookbook) and then, obviously, visited The Zoo.

Highlights included:

• BABY ELEPHANT. POKING HER LITTLE NOSE OUT BETWEEN THE BARS TO PICK UP THE HAY THE BIG ELEPHANTS HAD DROPPED ON THE FLOOR.
• also she yelled. ... at the forklift.
• also we watched a Big Elephant roll a log ponderously across the enclosure so they could put their feets on it so as to reach the suspended haynet with their face
• baby langur!!!
• Saw The Pygmy Hippo
• saw the CHEETAHS who are not normally quite that obliging
• goldfinches
• PENGUINS WITH EGGS
• flamingoes doing a BIZARRE vibratey thing with their faces
• babirusa, which have ridiculous fancy tusks
• Visayan warty pigs gruntling away to themselves

... and then we came home and played more Filament. Good day.