Seven Sunless Days reminder

SSD are playing the Middle East upstairs tonight, they expect to go on at 10pm.

Also, thanks to everyone who responded about Boston Organics--sounds like one of those things that's great in theory, not so great in practice.

I found my knife dancing music, in a somewhat unlikely source.  Now all I need to do is start dancing.

Duck and Chicken in love

From Boing Boing:

A duck and a hen on a farm outside Söderköping have found each other. The duck is now a foster-father to five chickens.

Annika Stenbäck and Peter Andersson, who live at the farm, tell the daily Norrköpings Tidningar about the love birds.

The birds started dating already last summer, after the duck accidentally drowned his mate during lovemaking. However, the duck didn't spend much time in mourning before starting to date the hen instead.

Soon, the hen started laying and brooding, but as the eggs were not fertilized, they never hatched.

"So we fetched some fertilized eggs from our old hens at my parents-in-law. She got six chickens, but one has died," says Annika Stenbäck.

During the entire brooding period the duck kept a nervous watch by the hen's side.

"And since the chickens were hatched he hasn't left her side," says Annika Stenbäck to Norrköpings Tidningar.

Original Swedish article, with photo of the happy family.  Guess the duck figured he'd be better off with a land-dweller...