100 Days happy- Day 37- Bess the Box fish falls in love with a moshi monster

OK, I think these photos are really cute- so this will be my photo of the day (Actually, I'm pretty pleased with myself- I've only used photos I haven't taken myself 4 times so far in this whole challenge- and seeing as I can't have my phone at work to take photos that's not bad!- And I've made up for it in a way because some days I post many more than one photo, It will have worked out that I've posted the full 100 and then some by the end, I promise!)

Just before I do, Here are my happy things for the day:
I cycled to work today- That was really pretty-it was sunny, and frosty so the park looked like a painting and the fields by work were all sparkly- however, you can't take a photo very easily on a bike!

I had an invitation to do research at Pemberley College at Cambridge university. That made me happy. I feel all clever and valued!

I remembered to post all my parcels so Jen, My mum, Randi and the Girl's school in Islamabad will soon be receiving exciting post.

Anyways, here are the cutest photos you'll see all day- This is almost as good as that octopus which was inseparable from it's Mr Potatohead toy:

Bess the boxfish has got herself a toy-boy boyfriend - literally - after falling in love with a plastic fish.

Staff at the Great Yarmouth Sea Life centre noticed Bess, a cow-horned boxfish, became dreamy eyed soon after a plastic Moshi Monster, named Blurp, was added to her tank as part of a new display.

The couple share the same distinctive spiky body shape leading staff to believe that Bess has mistaken Blurp for another of her species.  

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Keepers at Great Yarmouth Sea Life Centre think Bess the boxfish has fallen in love with a plastic toy placed in her enclosure after mistaking it for a member of her own species

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Blurp, a Moshi Monsters toy, was placed in the tank as part of a hide-and-seek exhibit. Staff have decided to leave him in there after the pair became inseparable

Curator Christine Pitcher said: 'I know they usually say opposites attract but in this case they couldnít be more alike.

'The Moshi has spikes which are similar the boxfish's own horns so it's likely the fish thinks it's another boxfish.

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Curators think Bess may have become confused by the spikes on Blurp, and thought he was another boxfish

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Boxfish are small fish which live near the equator whose tough scales form a box-like set of armour, meaning the adults cannot swim quickly, but also cannot be eaten by most other fish

However, staff have now decided to leave the Moshi in the tank permanently rather than see Bess end up broken-hearted.

Ms Pitcher added: 'Whatever the reason the fish has taken such a shine to the toy, we think we are going to have to leave it in there now so the boxfish doesnít pine for his new friend.'

100 Days happy- Day 35- Cambridge science festival

Cambridge Science festival!
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Today Traff, Tats, Karl and I went to the festival in Cambridge- with a combined list of events to attend as long as the average persons leg- We even downloaded the app to make it even easier to attend as many events as possible!
We started out in the Mitre to try and figure out where we needed to go.
Quickly we established that we were in the wrong place and we needed to head out towards the cavendish laboratory in Maddingly.

We went to the tourist information to get a map and instructions for how to get the bus- We stopped off for some early lunch- I had noodle and vegetable stirfry in the market- Karl had a hot dog and Traff got chips from Maccy Ds. After we all got sweets from the market for the bus.
Which we'd mostly eaten all of before we'd even found the bus stop.

We went to the Physics department first, then to the department of Engineering, To the event HQ for Tshirts and then on to the astronomy department. We looked at, read, joined in with and observed every exhibit in all 3 of these buildings.
Thats a whole lot of science!
I've included my favourite photos of the day below- I didn't photograph everything we did- I'm not so photography addicted as I was before!


We went on the Gamer bus- Traff and I played Street fighter and I beat him 4 games to 2! woop woop!

We updates Karl's coat with stickers form Event HQ:


We took part in the lazer bunny hop too- I completed this, cleanly- in 48 seconds- which I think is pretty damn good!

This is Tat's having her go- it's so much harder than it looks!


We enjoyed the Astronomy buildings- and they had loads of crafty activities and loads of people who were happy to talk to us- some of what they told us went over even Karl's head!

We had sushi for Dinner:
It was yummy! I've been to Teryaki before and enjoyed the food there- this time was no exception. the duck sushi was yummy- but not very traditional- tempura and salmon maki though were as good as in Cardiff.

We headed for a cup of tea after dinner to await the decision of the Astronomy department on the weather. In the end they decided it was too cloudy, but we did see Jupiter on the way home!

We went to the white horse on the way back- for pudding and a pint. We haven't been there for ages! I do miss just being able to go to the pub.

I'm very proud of my new T-shirt too!