Yo, so I currently don't have access to the internet at home cause my flatmate wont be back til wednesday and she didn't give me the password to the wifi so...I officially accept that I am indeed "a lousy blogger" and I hope to rectify this asap. sorry again.
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Now wait just a dog-gone minute !

hi all :) so for all those of you who hang on every word I say and who sit madly shaking backward and forward hitting F5 to refresh the blog page in the desperate hope that a new post will have wound its way out of my mind and into the ether, you can rest at ease for I am back! And I live to blog again! unfortunately this shan't be a particularly long post as I'm using my mum's iPad and will soon be on my way to a lovely seaside restaurant for dinner. However, popular demand insists that I give you something to read to while away the night hours and so here I am, sitting in a Guernsey courtyard drinking gin and eating camembert and black cherry preserve and typing away. The basic reason for my absence, for anyone who doesn't know, is that my mum has come over to visit me and we've been running around the French countryside for the past week sans Internet :) We went to a sailing boat festival in Douarnenez, explored the walled city and the seaside of St. malo, watched Cavendish have (another) brilliant win on the Champs Élysées in Paris and are now in Guernsey, going to Sark tomorrow and back to Jersey on Friday. So with all that going on and having only an iPad not my laptop I have been unable or too busy or too tired to blog. So I apologise. I do have an Internet connection here and a little bit of time so I can write this, however this being an iPad I have no real way to upload any of the photos that I have taken. I can assure you, however, that the very second that I am able to access my laptop back in jersey, after having moved house on Friday of course, I shall endeavor to give you a full blow by blow, real-time, up to the minute account of our holiday. Missing you all, Xx Kim (and leonie) Ps. Summer has FNALLY arrived and we even went and bathed in the sea today ! Although I could only manage to get halfway in before I lost all feeling in my legs and mum dived in straight away, such is her hubris, and I could practically hear her extremities screaming !

Hello !!!

Busy busy...

Hiya :)

So I know it's been a while since I posted but to be fair I have had a very busy week. Firstly, Rosalie, the Golden Lion Tamarin that I'm doing my study on had twins ! They're unbelievably adorable and about as big as my index finger at the moment. She's taking them out into the woods and being a really good mum at the moment so we're hoping both them will do well :)

I know it's a bit of a shoddy picture but you can kind of see a little bump on her back and that's one of the babies :)

Then, just casually, I met one of the greatest men to have ever been on the planet. That's right, my idol and hero Sir David Attenborough came to Durrell to film the lion tamarins for a new series that comes out in october ( keep an eye out for it!) and while I didn't exactly get officially introduced or anything he was about 2 feet away from me and he smiled at me and said hi - gah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dream. come. true. love. him. so. much!!!! Since the BBC were coming we've been flat out organising everything and making sure that the ranges and everything were up to scratch and ready to be filmed as well training the animals so they'd be comfortable being filmed and so they would come down to where the cameras could film with the best light/space for David/aesthetics.

Quintessential David Attenborough pose with Ian, one of the keepers.

And finally, next week ITV are coming to Durrell to film a sequence about the bat tunnel so we've had to be sprucing that up and making sure everything is ready for that ! All of our animals are proper little movie stars but gosh does it take a lot of work! 

And finally, I also had to go out and find a new appartment to live in cause I'm moving out soon - I'll be living in a proper flat-share like a real adult! woohoo! So yeah, a very exciting, very busy week :)

xx