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It seems that you and Julianne are animals lovers!! Do you guys click on the animal rescue site? I am sorry that you lost your cat..I know how hard that is.

The only thing that makes animal abuse stories better is the adoption stories that follow. Thanks, guys!

That's soooo got to be a Bingo!

verynicebecky - if you don't like what you're reading then why continue? Surely you must have enough intelligence to understand that if you venture onto a CF forum then you'll come across people who don't want kids and don't consider parenting to be "the hardest job in the world"? We, the CF, are just as entitled to our opinions as all those parents out there, and we're expressing them in a forum where like-minded people subscribe and contribute. I'm sure there are just as many "oh, aren't those CF weirdos evil!" topics on various parenting boards but hey, if I don't like what I see I'll respect their opinions and go elsewhere. Maybe you should do the same.

Hi Manatee

Well, I always think I'm the only person left in Christendom who still (whisper it) buys Pet Shop Boys albums. It's just me financially supporting them now.

I'm in London - Stoke Newington to be precise. Where are you?

BTW Frieda, love the idea of the online cocktail hour. Mine would be a mango daiquiri!

Now off to do more college work... or my academic dreams will be no more than a chimera.

Ogriv
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Oh yeah, you told me already where you're from... London, right? Because that'd make it easier to work at the BM. Whereabouts in London?

Ogriv
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I actually live in Surrey (Woking), but commute to London most days for lectures. I'm at UCL, so Bloomsbury's my main hunting ground.

Badgers and hedgehogs ... are you SURE you guys like animals?

Manatee, have you tried to trump my hedgehogs with your frolicking badgers?!? It's just as well there is a pixel limit on these avatars or they might take up the whole page. Do you happen to have an enormous image of a Manatee anywhere?

Bloomsbury, eh? My current job (while I'm doing my psychology conversion course) is working with rough sleepers in the London Borough of Camden. Which of course includes Bloomsbury. It's always nice to drop into Bloomsbury to get some peace and quiet and walk among the academic buildings.

Are you implying there's something wrong with liking badgers, Ingilbert? (makes offended badger huffing noises)

Ogriv - sorry, your new avatar just provided the prompting I needed to get one of my own! The badgers in the picture are abandoned baby badgers which are reared in a wildlife rescue centre before they are released back into the wild. My boyfriend and I have adopted a couple of badgers who live at the centre as they are too unwell to fend for themselves. I believe they look after hedgehogs too - here's the website address if you want to take a look. They used to have a live webcam where you could watch the resident animals, sadly it doesn't seem to be working anymore - just as well, because it was quite addictive.

I used to have some pictures of manatees but don't know what's happened to them - no doubt Google would turn them up again. When I first started posting on a forum, I was going through a manatee phase, and the name sort of stuck...