Saturday, 20 January 2007 7 Anifeiliaid i mewn Cymraeg - 7 Animals in Welsh

  1. Ci - Dog
  2. Mochyn - Pig
  3. Cyw - Chicken
  4. Gafr - Goat
  5. Cwningen - Rabbit
  6. Buwch - Cow
  7. Ceffyl - Horse

Friday, 19 January 2007 7 nicknames our cat has acquired

  1. Boonoo
  2. Catface
  3. Spangbourne
  4. El Furino
  5. Thumper
  6. Chuckles
  7. The Annoying One

Thursday, 18 January 2007 7 seven letter words beginning with Q

All words are valid scrabble words and appear in the OSW.

  1. Qiqongs
  2. Quackle
  3. Quantal
  4. Queests
  5. Quiblin
  6. Quiddle
  7. Quonked

Wednesday, 17 January 2007 7 things I love about nature

It's 'celebrity' blog time again; and today's list comes from a previous contributor, Jay. Thanks for the submission Cheesy.

  1. Nature can remind you of who you truly are and has an incredibly humbling quality.
  2. Nature is not judgemental, everything is equal.
  3. The apparent randomness of nature which is actually not random in the slightest.
  4. The way that being surrounded by none other than nature can allow you to feel as if you are the only human life-form on the planet.
  5. Nature's uncompromising force to survive and flourish despite much of humanities best efforts to destroy it.
  6. The sounds of nature. Rain on a roof, a running stream, wind howling through trees or gently rustling leaves, wood creaking etc.
  7. The way that nature is constantly in a state of flux.

Tuesday, 16 January 2007 7 animals on the EDGE of existence

"Recent studies indicate that almost 75 per cent of the world’s most extraordinary threatened mammals are receiving little or no conservation attention. The EDGE of Existence programme aims to conserve the world's most Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species by implementing the research and conservation actions needed to secure their future."

Here are 7 examples from the EDGE top 100 list:

  1. Long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijni)
  2. Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
  3. Indri (Indri indri)
  4. Golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus)
  5. Bumblebee bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai)
  6. Long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes)
  7. Long-eared jerboa (Euchoreutes naso)

Monday, 15 January 2007 7 words and phrases that we've translated from our cat

  1. Maaa - General greeting/whinge/what?
  2. Mauuuw - Where are you, I can't see you???
  3. Mmm Bung - Only ever done once and we can't get him to repeat it so it can't be very important!
  4. 'click' - I'm attempting to speak but have only just woken up.
  5. Maaaamagaaraamamarra - What the bloody hell time do you call this, and where's my sodding dinner!
  6. Mmm Ga - Wake up and feed me!
  7. Mangma - Stop talking about me I can understand you ya'know!

Sunday, 14 January 2007 7 oddities from today

  1. I ate 3 different types of cheese before bed for the sole purpose of seeing if it effects dreaming... It didn't.
  2. A Bluebottle fly landed on our car window... In January?
  3. A guy got his van stuck in the mud 2 cars down from us and needed my help to free it from it's muddy prison after trying unsuccessfully to use branches under the wheels.
  4. A woman with a bright white coat and vibrant pink handbag walking into a muddy wood; That is never going to end well!
  5. I tried to get into a grey Audi estate not realising that it wasn't my car, which was parked next to it; I have a green Subaru?
  6. A huge herd of deer came trotting past our parked car shortly followed by one deer sprinting in the opposite direction.
  7. We followed the worlds slowest driver through Ashridge, driving at an average speed on 15mph on a road impossible to overtake on.