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A reasonably sedate swim this morning, although a more-than-intended number of lengths to finish the week on (swim weeks start on Monday, like work weeks, everyone knows that,right?)

And, in an attempt to Reveal The Inner Middleman, as requested by not seeing straight, I spent a fair bit of the afternoon attempting to sex gerbils. Whilst cleaning out the cage of the two 'females' (and I'm using the term, er, uncertainly there) yesterday that we got our girls at Christmas, we discovered 6 babies nestling in amongst the bedding. So, we're now in the position of having far more gerbils than we intended, gerbils of different ages of different sexes and the possibility of more gerbils on the way. Apparently the mum may be pregnant again already, that's just what they do. Various scenarios are in the offing, most of which involve varying levels of upset for our girls. We've been on forums, discussion boards, seen close-up pictures of gerbils' genitalia galore, examined ours and we're still not certain, although it's looking more likely than we previously thought that the 'dad' is actually another mum and the actual mum was pregnant when we got her. Note that I've kept the names out of this, I'm keeping it that way to protect their rodent privacy. I will not be blipping any of these animals, it's the kind of exposure they've not asked for. A little discretion is called for after all.

Music, nowt to do with any of the above, but summat appropriate for the image I feel and summat that I really should listen to more. Bordering on the sublime.