Of hedgehogs, Dads and I, Clavdivs

[strange_complex]

I believe I may have mentioned as much on this LJ before, but just to reiterate - my Dad is teh aces! When he arrived at 9pm last night, I only had one working telephone socket in my house - a bit inconvenient, since it was in my study, and I couldn't guarantee to hear it if I was downstairs and the study door was closed. Now, I have no less than four working telephone sockets - a little excessive for my needs, perhaps, but they were all part of an old system which was just there anyway, so he figured he might as well reactivate them all while he was at it. I am incredibly impressed at his cleverness.

He also brought a plastic outdoor table and chairs, which will be nice as hollyione is coming to visit me tomorrow, so we can enjoy sitting out in the garden with drinks while her daughter plays around us. We decided to take them straight through to the garden from the car when he arrived, and of course being 9pm it was dark, and the automatic light I have above the patio doors switched itself on as I opened them. And what should I see in its beam, sitting in the middle of the lawn? A hedgehog! I wasn't terribly surprised, as I see foxes and squirrels all the time, but hedgehogs are a bit more secretive, and I obviously haven't been out at the right time to encounter one yet. He didn't even seem very scared or anything - he didn't roll up in a ball, but just sat there, and after a while decided that maybe he would shuffle off somewhere a bit quieter. It was very exciting, and I hope I shall see more of him.

Anyway, now Dad has headed off towards Dundee, where he will be picking my Mum up from a Medical History conference and then going to the Moray Firth area for a holiday. Apparently the main attraction is dolphins, which can be seen by the dozen in the bay.

Meanwhile, in completely unrelated news, a film of I, Claudius is apparently on the cards. Could be very exciting if it happens, although I may be forced to kill myself if Leonardo DiCaprio is cast as Claudius. As Caligula, though... I could go with that.

Comments

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

Aww...yay for hedgehogs :) I've never seen one in real life, although my dad informs me that he was locking up one night, and a hedgehog just shuffled up towards our door, into our backyard, and hung around until he gave it some cat food and water, before it disappeared again. I do worry, though, that one of the brats/spides/chavs in our area might have killed it :/

The film sounds very interesting...who would you really like to see starring in it, if you could choose instead of the casting directors?

[megamole.livejournal.com]

The icon is Teh Cute :)

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I think it was the first time I've seen a real hedgehog in the wild, too, although I'm not sure - I may have seen one before and forgotten about it.

I've been trying to think up my ideal cast for I, Clavdivs, but it's really difficult - I don't have a very wide knowledge of British actors (and I would want them all to be British), and I'm just crap at this sort of thing anyway. But you'll find some of my suggestions in a reply to the same question asked by megamole, below.