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Created: 27th March 2001

Fluffy Muppet

Welcome! I am Muppet, apparently now recovered from a burst of life-changing amnesia. Caused mostly by buying a house and getting married.

My real name is Emma, and I live close to Oxford in the UK with my husband. I have a degree in astrophysics, analyse computer viruses for a living (!) and speak reasonably fluent Spanish.

When I have spare time it's often so much of a shock that I don't get round to doing anything with it, but I love cooking (anything and everything, but personal favourites include Indian and Chinese food) and I'm interested in cultures from all over the world.

Anything else is subject to change - usually on a daily basis laugh

Together with Lady Elly I ran Messy Haven, a place for everybody who prefers things a bit untidy. I think I might have to resign though since my life has suffered a serious decluttering. Still, come and have a look! Bring a mug and settle in to the cozy surroundings.

Messy Haven

BLOG! I have a blog - if you want to find out what's happening to me in the Real World, or what interesting stuff I've found on the web, take a 'sneeky peeky' at: Muppet's Blog

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Muppet
Last posted: Nov 24, 2002

Researcher Number:

170551

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CONVERSATIONS

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CONVERSATION	COMMUNITY	LATEST POST	LATEST REPLY

Can I join the fun?	h2g2	No Posting	Aug 15, 2007
Organic food	h2g2	No Posting	Nov 25, 2006
Organic Food	h2g2	No Posting	Feb 10, 2005
The merchant and the beggar	h2g2	No Posting	May 13, 2003
Families	h2g2	Nov 24, 2002	No replies
Er...	h2g2	Nov 24, 2002	No replies
Fairtrade vs Freetrade	h2g2	Jul 19, 2001	Nov 23, 2002
Update	h2g2	Nov 17, 2002	No replies
A year too late...	h2g2	No Posting	May 14, 2002
White wine	h2g2	No Posting	Apr 11, 2002



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Missing researcher		Mar 12, 2002
Christmuse Dinner		Nov 26, 2001
Muse of Elephants		Nov 3, 2001
Hi Emma!		Jul 26, 2001
Hello there!		Apr 26, 2001
DesCartes		Apr 25, 2001
London calling....		Apr 25, 2001
Musehome Calling		Apr 16, 2001

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Families
Nov 24, 2002

My great aunt died the week before last and on Friday I went to her funeral. It wasn't that I missed her or was grieving for her - I hadn't seen her in years and we didn't keep in touch. She was invited to my wedding in May but didn't come (along with a significant proportion of my much younger relatives).

I went because my dad was upset and I wanted to be with him. And he was pleased to see me, so that was good.

What wasn't good is that there is a major rift down the middle of my dad's family. Acutally it's pretty much the girls v the boys for some reason - my aunts are on one side and my dad and my uncle on the other. There's too much history involved to figure it all out, but it was a miracle that there wasn't a bun fight at the wake. The bitching started later and will no doubt get worse when they have to sort out the will.

Why do families do this? If they don't like each other, why not stay away? Is is so hard to be civil for an entire day? I don't like most of them very much myself (we have nothing in common expect the chromosomes) but it doesn't get to me to the point where I'm always bad-mouthing them.

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Update
Nov 17, 2002

I've now been married for 6 months and I can safely say (without wanting to make anyone sick) that it's been the happiest time of my life. Not least because the major stress of my life last year was planning a wedding....

The major stress of my life this year has been my job but it seems to be OK at the moment.

I've started an OU degree course in Environmental Science which, if I stick to it, will no doubt be the major cause of stress in my life next year

Today, for example, I've been learning about the origins of life in the oceans and now I'm trying to keep phytoplankton, zooplankton, picoplankton and eukaryotes all straight in my mind. Definitely a work in progress

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Greenfly
Jun 22, 2001

What makes greenfly green? Are they intrinsically green, or do they take their colour from what they eat? Only there are some little things on one of my coriander plants that look like greenfly. But they're red. And some of the leaves of the plant turned red a little while back. So I wondered whether they are greenfly which have turned red coz they've eaten the red bits of the plant.

Hmmm...will we ever know?

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Gah!
Jun 19, 2001

I have just had the weekend from hell. I hurt my back, I spent all morning on Sunday cleaning the house and then watched my parents tramp grass all over it, and I spent 7 hours with my parents which led me to take yesterday off with a migraine.

I would look on the bright side if I knew which one it was

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Blog
Jun 14, 2001

Well, I haven't said much here lately because I've been playing with my new Blog (link supplied somewhere over to the left...) which has been a lot of fun.

Work continues much the same. The Muppetteer is much bothered by hayfever. I bought my dad a Hedgehog House for his birthday, in the hope he can entice a hedgehog into his garden to control the slug population.

I'm going to Prague for a conference in September, too. Just for a couple of days, but I should have a little bit of time to take in the sights. Woo hoo!

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ID	TITLE	COMMUNITY	STATUS	CREATED

A586677	World's Most Beautiful Buildings	h2g2	Edited	Aug 3, 2001
A583977	The Perfect Picnic	h2g2	Edited	Jul 27, 2001
A576911	Preparing for Your First Day at University	h2g2	Edited	Jul 13, 2001
A575679	Organic Food in the UK	h2g2	Edited	Jun 19, 2001
A578964	A review of Driving Over Lemons	h2g2	-	Jun 18, 2001
A572500	What's my line?	h2g2	-	Jun 5, 2001
A565067	The things people say....	h2g2	-	May 23, 2001
A540055	Organic Food in the UK	h2g2	-	Apr 25, 2001
A536672	The Tidy People's Support Group	h2g2	-	Apr 17, 2001
A533585	Emma's Chinese Meal for 6	h2g2	-	Apr 10, 2001
A529977	Name the Hefalump	h2g2	-	Apr 3, 2001
A529643	The Oriental Condor, Oxford, UK	h2g2	-	Apr 2, 2001
A528914	Here be worms	h2g2	-	Mar 31, 2001



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