Category: Daily

  • Sunny Easter

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    I’ve no photos to blog because I’m away from home without my cables. I’m off work for 10 days or so, and I’m not checking my email. Lots of golf and lots of sun. Peace and quiet (mostly).

  • They found me

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    They found me. I don’t know how, but they found me! (Sorry: long running joke).

  • Hayfever

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    I always find biology curious – which sounds like a daft thing for me to say as I am clearly a biologist and wouldn’t remain so if I didn’t find the subject intriguing. My recent real-world example that has piqued my interest, however, is my hayfever. In biology patterns exist, but I’m also used to…

  • Comment spam

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    I’ve had to kill the comment system for a little while. This site was getting a massive, unmanageable amount of comment spam, and the ratio of real to false commenters is tiny.

  • Froggy Recovered

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    I deduced where Jack must have left him!

  • Anatomy Teaching: the cruellest cut of all

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    Some of the GEP students might be interested to see who we saw in London at an anatomy meeting yesterday. They like his DVDs very much.

  • Degree applicants ‘copy from web’

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    A BBC article claims “Thousands of prospective university students are using the internet to cheat in their applications, analysis by admissions service Ucas reveals.” Importantly UCAS say, “There’s a difference between copying, and using the web to get advice on how to write the best personal statement – there’s nothing wrong with that.”

  • Spring?

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    Spring is on the way. I can tell because after cycling to work this morning the roof of my mouth is lined with gnats.

  • Moving Mum & Dad

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    Mum and dad moved house over the last few days, so we have a new family home. They’ve moved into a really nice house not far from the previous one, and the move itself went smoothly (thanks to family and friends as a whole, but particularly thanks to my brother the professional removals man). My…

  • Beach in February

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    No matter the weather, kids love the beach.