Category: Daily

  • Sprinkles

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    The only way I can make myself mark all these essays is by bribing me with doughnuts. It seems to be working.

  • IntMB

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    That’s it – the exam exec board meeting is over, & the results will be posted soon. Our first batch of students have passed through their first two years of study. Good luck to them. Next week I can get back to the first years’ teaching, exam & coursework, but not before lots of whisky…

  • Big Pile of Books

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    This is why you should make time for reps. Not only do they help you out by showing you things that will probably help you out but you never knew existed, but they also give out lots of freebies. Look at this big pile of books waiting for me this morning outside my office. A…

  • Ill

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    The word “Ill” is great in most fonts, if the “i” is capitalised. It makes no sense at first glance. I’ve had a nasty cold virus or something similar for the last few days. It built up on Tuesday and then laid me out in bed asleep for most of the next two days. I’m…

  • Headcrabs For Sale! Come And Get Your Headcrabs!

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    Valve are selling plush headcrabs in the run up to the release of Half-Life 2 Episode 1. An unbelievably excellent idea. I’ll be needing a plush crowbar to go with that. Preloading of the new Half-Life 2 episode begins via Steam this month, with activation on June 1st. Damn – I really am going to…

  • Textbooks

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    It seems to be the time of year for the publishers Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins to send out new versions of their textbooks to us lecturers. For those of you interested, Moore’s Essential Clinical Anatomy is now on edition 3, Langman’s Medical Embryology is on edition 10 (some nice additions in there), and there’s a…

  • Drowning in paper

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    I’m in the midst of marking and second marking a pile of 2000 word essays, and am about to receive 2 sets of 70-odd exam papers to mark from 2 exams this week, of which each paper deserves the same attention as all the others. Mondays, eh? Far too much coffee will be drank in…

  • A Baby Boy!

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    Jo has just given birth to a baby boy, Bradley, at 8lb 3oz. All are well & I hope she’ll be sending photos soon. Top! Congratulations to Jo & Leighton!

  • Long Easter Weekend

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    I am recovering from an incredibly busy Easter weekend. Lots of fun, lots of people, lots of Jack. Here are some pics: Easter egg hunt. Jack plus cousins. At the park. A friend’s new puppy. A friend back from traveling the world. Fishing (50-60lb of carp plus bream, roach, chub – excellent). Nana & Jack…

  • P.M.

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    (Video taken after playing on Caswell beach – Jack’s wellies were filled with seawater as usual).