Tag Archives: Pandas
April 28, 2012 Ten opinions from Edinburgh Zoo
Back in December, along with several billion pushchairs, I visited Edinburgh’s pandas. Four months later and one mating season already given up on, I decided I didn’t care what everybody’s favourite asexual bamboo aficionados were up to; instead I wondered how all the other animals were feeling. 1. Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Tags: Animals, Australia, Britain, december 21st 2012, Edinburgh, mayan prophecy, Nudity, Pandas, Scotland, Vox Pop
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April 4, 2012 My return to university and another death in the family
A girl I developed a debilitating and unrequited crush on once called me a drifter down her perfect nose. We’d met at a staff party; I’d been drinking warm beer in a friend’s apartment, watching England lose to Germany with the sound off, A-ha on repeat and bag of something expensive went up my nose [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Britain, Death, Denmark, Dogs, Drugs, Middlesbrough, Pandas, Scotland
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December 30, 2011 A Gentle Hogmanay for Edinburgh’s Pandas
Tian Tian (Sweetie) and Yang Guang (Sunshine), Edinburgh Zoo’s latest guests, are “settling in well” and “very happy” according to our well informed and friendly guide during my Christmas visit to the zoo’s new £250,000 panda enclosure.
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