Male Wigeon

Male Wigeon
Originally uploaded by lsnduck.

Well, what an eventful day.

First of all though, my very first picture on flickr, a photo hosting and community site. This is one of the ducks that live on the campus lake. He is a Wigeon and is one of my all time favourite duckduck friends. Wigeon are much smaller than Mallard and very dumpy in shape. As you can see, the male is very birghtly coloured. His call is a loud, shrill whistle and is lovely. The female is dark brown on top and very light underneath with many speckles. You can see a picture of both this male and his female partner on flickr.

Anyway, today's events. I dropped my teapot on my desk and splashed tea everywhere. Vast quantities ran down onto the strip plug and my ironing pile got hit by tea leaves. I saved my laptop, but the strip plug is suspect.

Also, the broadband connection has been playing up, so I am posting this from one of the computer classrooms. I am not sure if it is an ISP problem, or whether my router got hit by tea as well.

Also, I have finally decided to step down as Alliance Admin.

I shall make further comments on all of this later on, hopefully from home by normal means, but I am getting jumpy and losing concentration at the moment. It will soon be time for tea as well.