Thank goodness we're not rats

Some of you may have come across this at uni if you did biology.
It turns out that the hypothalamus is the part of the brain which (among many other duties) is involved in hunger and thirst. In particular, the lateral hypothalamic nucleus is the hunger centre, which creates the feeling of hunger. It is always operating. On the other hand, the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus controls the cessation of hunger - i.e. feeling "full". This area only comes into operation to override the hunger centre when you have eaten enough.

Like all good scientific experimentation, poor old rats have been used several times to demonstrate this fact. By damaging the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus in a rat's brain, the rat no longer experiences a signal that it is "full", and because the hunger centre keeps operating, the rat will keep eating until the discomfort (I would call it pain...just check the pictures!) of its massively distended stomach/intestines causes it to stop.

The results are certainly impressive:

And while I was finding these pictures, I came across this too:

Shoesday - By Proxy

This week I thought I'd combine shoesday with another well loved institution...

The Dad joke!

I also thought a bit of brevity would be welcome after last weeks heavy going post...

A man walks into a shoe store, and tries on a pair of shoes.
"How do they feel?" asks the sales clerk.
"Well they feel a bit tight," replies the man.

The assistant promptly bends down and has a look at the shoes and at the man's feet. "Try pulling the tongue out," the clerk says.

"Well, theyth sthill feelth a bith tighth."

heheheheheh...

Then I thought I might combine shoesday with our beloved French connection...

What do you call a French man in sandals?

Phillippe Philopp! hahahahaha

I should stop now..you're probably all dying from laughing so hard and I wouldn't want you to get fired for uncontrollable giggling!

Logos so far

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Thank you to all our members that have submitted there entries.

To everyone else hurry up I want this done before 2007

The logo sub committee


Having issues putting them up but the housey ones are noddle's
The flame in green is Johnny

The Search for Mr (W)right is over.

On saturday morning, Corrinne married her Mr Wright. It was a wonderful day which was spent with family and friends celebrating their wedding. She looked gorgeous in her dress and was very happy, of course.
Here are some photo's, i will have professional ones to show you soon.

Monday Wash up returns (after a brief absence)

So here we are again on a rainy Monday morning....WHAT A WEEKEND!!!

After a lovely quiet dinner at the Rangoon Racquet Club (Indian in Crowie...just for you John!) on friday night and some packing, we had a relatively early evening in preparation for our HUGE weekend!

Saturday bright and early I was up cleaning fridges and moving boxes, luckily we had the removalists as we would never have done it by ourselves. All large furniture was moved to our new house and not much of it got wet! (It poured all morning on and off for those of you not in Sydney). Around the SRF I can report that Mattes and Bron were at a wedding (Bron S's little sis), Shari was in Sweden, Sarah and Matten were preparing for the Cellar tea and G'Nick was out meeting crazy neighbours! We sure picked the best weekend to move...no one was available for the big stuff! We were very lucky however to get the help of John and Matten later in the day for all the tiresome running back and forth and tip runs (Thank you boys!! we'll be there in Oct for you John!)

About Midday I swanned off to my fabulous Cellar Tea! Lovingly prepared and organsied by my bridey girls Sarah and Jane......let the photos speak..
The Mums...Mine, Sarah's and Kenny's (Lee is Mum's bestie) They were the toiletpaper brides....hilarious!

Heather needs a new dressmaker!

Some of the lovely girls.

It was fabulous!
The following day was more moving and more moving! By evening we finally felt a bit more settled and were even able to cook dinner in our new kitchen! It's all very exciting and new...I'm loving it....the only thing that sucks is that I will now be living between two houses for the next month or so!