Shhhhh!

It's nearly a year since I took this picture of the lion family at London Zoo in the snow. Since then, the young male (bottom front) has gone to a new home in Poland. The young female, Ruby, remains with mum and dad.




Yesterday, I took a fortuitous rest on a bench next to the keepers' "talk trolley" as they were preparing to give a talk on the lions. I overheard them talking about mum lion Abi and some new cubs! The public doesn't yet know about these 6-week-old additions to the population of this endangered species. But, relentless in my pursuit of the latest animal news, and being a harmless grey-haired woman who probably doesn't know anything about technology and networking, and so not someone to worry about telling these things to, I was able to glean the information that there are two cubs, which will probably be outside within two months, and the size of their heads suggests that there is one of each.

You heard it here first!

Meanwhile, my tooth and its lanced gum infection are doing better, but despite yesterday's lovely warm, sunny weather, I spent 3 daylight hours in bed feeling grotty with a bladder infection and who knows what else. I have a theory that I either swallowed some of the infected material when the gum was lanced, or some of it entered my bloodstream via the lanced hole. Today it' still sunny and warm and I'm feeling much better, so the garden is beckoning once more.