Sunsets & kittehs & wildlife

[nanila]

Our new house has a couple of west-facing windows, including the one in Humuhumu*'s room, and it turns out that Worcestershire in summertime features spectacular sunsets. I didn't managed to snap them all, but there were four in particular during the past two weeks that merited diving for the dSLR.


Mackerel skies on the 13th.


Fisheye on the 14th.


Blood-red on the 18th.


Stratified on the 19th.



Standing in the back garden, a little way down our long path, looking at the back of the house.


Bloke in kitchen.


Cat in bath.


Peacock butterfly on stone wall by the canal.


Newt in drainpipe.

I'll make a more organised house post when I've settled into my routine better. At the moment I'm quite anxious about getting things right. Particularly my work-from-home setup and the commute to London, which starts very early on Wednesday and ends late on Thursday and involves multiple trains, buses and coordinating places to sleep. I'm sure it will all come together just in time for me to go on maternity leave and undergo another massive life change.

* Passenger has become Humuhumu, after the reef triggerfish, humuhumunukunukuapua'a, which is the bloke's favourite Hawai'ian word. I would have preferred "Manapua", which is a roast pork bun. Anyway, this began because of our ongoing debate about whether or not Humuhumu is going to have an Anglo first name or a Hawai'ian first name. To Be Continued...

Comments

[meloukhia]

Gorgeous! I'm really excited about your new house. (I think I'm just jealous that you get to arrange furniture.)

[nanila]

Thank you! Ah yes, furniture. If only we had anywhere near enough for these rooms.

[kake]

Lovely photos!

[nanila]

Thank you! I'm still accumulating sunset photos. I expect this may become a regular thing.

[pbristow]

I thought it was a reference to "Hum-nu?", which is Buffy-speak for "you just tied my brain in such a knot that I can't even remember how to say 'What?'".

[nanila]

That would be appropriate as well. I have to concentrate twice as hard to remember to do everything these days.

[qian]

Are there Hawai'ian names that sound a bit like Anglo names? You can do that with Chinese names, though usually it means the Chinese names aren't that good as Chinese names.

[nanila]

There are some Hawai'ian names that sound Anglo, or can be shortened to Anglo names (e.g. "Ana" or "Kai"). Given the way Anglo names are gendered, though, it's much easier to come up with an Anglo-sounding girl's name than a boy's name, since almost all Hawai'ian names end in soft vowel sounds. :/

[ironed_orchid]

Cat in bath!

[nanila]

I wanted to turn the water on for him, but that tap is bimodal: "off" and "fire hose", so I didn't. Poor thirsty cat!

[lark_ascends]

Fantastic photos. Luck with the name decision...

[nanila]

Thank you! I think we've almost settled on one, but we'll wait to see when Humuhumu turns up whether or not it suits or we need to go back to the shortlist.