The filth-bringers and the world's cutest guinea pig

As promised, photos of the park swarming with student-life:

It does get more crowded than this, a bit later in the afternoon.

Now the weather has gone back to normal - cold and damp, so the park is mostly empty again. Its amazing how variable the park population is. Oh, today for the first time I used the toilet at the edge of the park. It was surprisingly clean and well-appointed. For one thing, it was not a bush.

This is my friend's dad's guinea pig that I am looking after, who became very ill a few days ago. I found him at lunchtime lying on his side and twitching, so he got to go see the vet. He has to be hand-force-fed every 5 hours or so, and he doesn't like that one bit. The vet said he was doing surprisingly well now, though. His name is Gandolf (the guinea pig not the vet) and he is also incredibly cute as you can see. There may also be an action figure in the shot. How did that get there.