Sunday, December 19, 2010

Almost Xmas

This weekend was a first again for me- I managed to drive into a ditch. No, sorry there arent any hilarious photos (honest I promise), but basically the snow depth in Uppsala at the mo, is very deep. We went off down the beaten-track to find a shop and the road got tight. I moved over, the other car didnt bother, I moved a bit more, then suddenly I got sucked down into the abyss.

Luckily, the next driver who actually stopped (yeah thanks for driving off nob) knew the local farmer, who literally 5 mins after, came with his tractor, winched us out and job done.

It could have been worse- take my trip back from squash in Stockholm today. The snow storm today has been crazy, you cant really see anything on the roads and obviously a fellow driver found out the hard way. Just on the Arlanda sliproad, there were 2 ambulances, 1 police car and 3 firetrucks, next to a car facing the wrong way, on its roof! Hopefully they came out of it alive, was not good to see.

I just wanted to write a quick one to say me and Johanna are expanding our family.....It's a boy.

No not quite what you think, it's a male alright, named Oskar. I haven't got any pics myself but the person who I bought him off (no really, he's not from Thailand, it's not like that!) kindly provided me with a few samples, one of which is shown below:



He's 7 months old and the technical full name is a Baldy super hypo tangerine carrottail (thats his polymorphism) leopard gecko, otherwise known as Oskar.

Charlie stared at him for a good few minutes when he got home, so now we are officially a zoo. We have a dog, a lizard, and a monkey, well and me.

So Xmas round the corner, I've been a good boy this year so Santa Johanna better get me something good.....