"Stuck in the middle with you..."

So Im feeling very stuck in limbo at the moment. I'm very ready to say goodbye to this place, and this project, but I still have months to go. Its very much not fun any more, trying to drag up enthusiasm for all this stuff. I'v gotten fat living in Scotland, and I can't start exercising again till I get somewhere where its safe to go out after its gets dark at midday. I'v got lots of plans and Ideas of things I can do next but I can't start them till I finish up here. And the worse part of it is I really can't do anything to speed things up - my supervisor will drag this right up to the deadline even if I took a full draft to his office this morning. Urrgh frustrating!! Im even becoming jealous of Joni who at least gets to move out of this god forsaken spit of land we call Scotland in 10 days.

OMG we have to move house is 10 days and like nothing is packed!! panic!! We are busy trying to use up the various bits of food we have hanging around. I could be doing a lot of baking in the next week to use up all the flour and sugar. And I think Louise (who I am staying with after we move out of our flat) will be getting a parcel of all the little bits we don't manage to use.

As part of our doing-things-we-want-to-get-done-before-we-leave thing, Joni & I went to the Scottish Deer Center yesterday, which was surprisingly good fun. It had a lovely amateurish charm abut it, the paths were almost completely mud and the deer were mixed in together with really odd information signs, but you could get a big bag of food for £1 and the little ones all went mad for it. Sadly you wern't aloud to feed the reindeer because they are on a special diet (flying-pellets I reckon), but they were very ice to look at. AND we saw a red squirrel!!

They had quite a strange variety of animals, obviously slowly working on slowly expanding. They had Scottish wild cats (after seeing which I am convinced Tay is related). They had 2 wolves and a red fox which were being fed venison, which made me giggle. They also had the most amazing little sheep which are apparently the last truly wild type of sheep left in the world, and they live on the islands off the top of Scotland. Joni enjoyed feeding them.. 

All in all a lovely day, and fairly good value for money. It was expensive, but you were left with the feeling that no one was getting rich off that place, and all the money really was going into looking after the animals.

(P.S. All today's photos were provided by my awesome new phone. I'm quite enjoying that they are even better quality than the doggy old camera)