Wonderful life

A beautiful night's sleep in my own bed, and woke up early and full of cheer. Did some writing, made breakfast and enjoyed this with Lorraine and after going back to my desk for a bit, went off to the gym at lunchtime and did a few bits in there. Didn't over tax myself this afternoon, and apart from chatting to Mum, Toby briefly, and making dinner for Lorraine who'd taken Maureen to a physiotherapist and spent some time with them after, we boofed onto the gold sofa. I began reading Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould published in 1986, who Peter Hoibak steered me onto when I said I was interested in the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion.

One of my Cambrian favourites Anomalocaris, which means unusual shrimp. Mainly because they found its evil curly arm things separately and initially misclassified them as shrimp. Anomalocaris was perhaps the first top predator.