Library Thing

Following the advice of Manda; I have signed up to  Librarything.com all you do is type in a user name and password and you can catalouge up to 200 books for free, sort them by categories and find other people who read the same stuff and recommendations for what books you may like next.

If you would like to see what books I currently have (Please bear in mind this is not nearly all of them and it will be updated as soon as I can) click here.

I have been very silly

Yesterday I attempted to jump a stream, slipped and grabbed the first thing I could. Unfortionately for me it was the top rail of a barbed wire fence! So I now have a nice scratch all the way across my right palm, luckily its not deep and as I’m up to date on Tetnus I managed to avoid going to A+E for 5 hours.

At least I know for next time.

Dance of the Damned — The Vampyre ball

Last night was the Vampyre ConneXion’s Dance of the Damned or vampyre ball at The Clink prison museum.

It was appsolutlety amazin, first we walked through some of the museum to get to the hall, which has left me longing to go back and see it all again properly. The hall itself was so dark that it took everyone about 20 minutes to get their night vision, but was wonderful, the perfect venue.

I only saw the first band, The Voices of Masada but loved them, I think I’m going to have to get some of their CD’s. Then spent most of the night dancing until I was exhausted. If Wrecked is anything like this next week we’ll have a great time.

Updated: The photos can be found here, courtesy of Cecile

More on the sex lives of bats…

According to the Metro today the production of sperm and brain cells are both very energy demanding. Thus males cannot generate large numbers of both.

The study found that in bat species where the females were unusally promiscuous the males had much larger testicles, up to 8.5% of their body mass, as opposed to 0.02-0.75% in apes, however these males also had much smaller brains.

In species where the females were monogamous have relatively large brains.

However male promiscuity doesn’t seem to affect this at all.

And some more cute bats