How cute am I???

There are lots of squirrels and rabbits around here, both on campus in Bognor that I can watch from my window and in the park just across the road. I photographed a couple of them in the park yesterday and thought I’d share it with you.

I am sorry I don’t post more often on here, but when I don’t have internet access in my room and have to go to the IT room to get online well, I guess you all know how it is. Fortunately it does seem like things will get better not too far into the future. I got an email yesterday saying that my offer on a property (to rent of course, not to buy) has been accepted by the landlord and that I get to move in on the 1st of October getting a contract till end of August next year. I don’t take anything for granted though; it’s amazing how many unexpected problems can turn up when you’re a foreigner over here (probably is the same the other say around with foreigners in Norway as well!) and I’ll just keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best till the contract is sign and the deposit is paid, then I’ll tell you more about it.

Yesterday I managed to open a bank account, also a bit of trouble because of rules and regulations – and for a minute I thought that the thing that was going to stop it all from happening would be my passport. I’ve got an old passport, from 1998, and the man at the bank was very perplexed at seeing a hand written passport. He had never seen a Norwegian hand written passport before, so he had to call in to some main office and then put it under some kind of special light and he was very doubtful there for a while if this was good enough. I was by then thinking: is it possible to get a new passport through the Norwegian embassy here in England or do I have to go back to Norway to get one? Fortunately I did not have to find out, they did accept my old hand written passport in the end – and I’m now the proud owner of a British bank account with Lloyds TSB.

I have been to two lectures so far and it’s been everything I’ve hoped for and then some. It’s so great and so inspiring I can hardly wait for the next lecture to happen – I just love it!

And on that thought I’ll be leaving you for now, I’m going to go for a walk around Bognor – and I might even be doing some shopping: I can’t remember the last time I did as much walking as I’ve been doing this week and now I think I might be in need of some new sneakers.


Here’s another photo of a squirrel, will try to get some photos of the rabbits real soon as well so that you can help me decide: are they indeed rabbits or are they hares?