day thirty-eight - cheetah

who else is sad that the rift valley doco is over? me too. boo hoo etc. especially since the last episode had some pretty great cheetah action in it.

speaking of cheetah action...

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as much as i don't like photos of myself, i do like any excuse to paint myself as an animal. so they balance each other out. it's also arguable whether this is art but it DID involve paint, so...

so far i have been a raccoon, a panda, a tiger and now a cheetah. maybe i could paint myself as every mammal in the world? that would be cool. not as cool as cheetah cubs though. they are some kind of wonderful mix of badassery and super cuteness with an air of superiority.

xj

day twenty-one - generic fish

oh noes. now i've hit twenty there are two hyphens in the title - an editor's nightmare!

ANYHOO, today's animal is my all-time favourite... generic fishies!

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i just love their chosen habitat and specific behaviours and all their other idiosyncrasies. convincing no?

i'll be honest with you - originally i was cross-stitching a stag beetle. but two hours after i had begun i still had not completed his damned abdomen (damndomen) and i ran out of thread. so i gave up and stamped some fish instead.

thus i cannot impart my (copy-pasted) animalistic knowledge upon you today, as this is no species in particular. but i can show you this! nat geo is the best. [side note: how have i not linked to something to do with sir attenborough yet!? must get onto that tomorrow]

xj