Category: Daily

Clearing out my paperwork this morning, I discovered that I finished paying off my student loans this month! Yey! I finished my first degree in 1996, and elected to begin paying off these loans sometime after coming back to the UK and starting work as a post-doc. I remember not earning enough to *have to*…

By the way, for all that don’t know, I’m now on holiday! I’m going to try and relax for a week or so, so nobody mention the word “work” to me. To this end, I won’t be checking my email much, so if you don’t hear from me I’m not ignoring you.

Congratulations to Wales on winning the Grand Slam in the Six Nations! I have to admit, even though I’m not a Wales supporter, I was nervous for them on Saturday morning. Thank God they won. We spent the weekend in sunny, sunny Devon, to see Rhiannon and Robin get married. Top weekend, good weather, good…

Marmot, the outdoor kit company I like so much, just sent me their Spring catalogue. It’s full of the usual gorgeous pictures of people having fun in the great outdoors, making me ask, “what the hell am I doing slogging it out in the infinite thankless task that is my job, and not out there…

Oh, by the way, I rewrote the “Photos” page, and you can now go and look at galleries of pics instead of one huge, huge page of moblog photos.

It’s another exam day today. We’ve staggered the exams for the medicine course throughout the first year, so that the students have a smattering of assessments rather than blocks. I don’t know which is best, & there are arguments for both. At the end of their preclinical years they will have a solid block of…

Sorry about adding login whotsits to the commenting system, but I was getting comment spam coming out of my ears, and this was the best fix available. You only have to sign up once and then you’re done. It’s a good service, honest. I may take it off in a couple of weeks if things…

Again, some poor soul stepped onto the line in front of a train early this morning, so the trains to Swansea were halted and I couldn’t get into work. Not really a problem for me, as it happens, so instead of sitting in Cardiff Central for 4 or 5 hours waiting for the police to…

It’s just me and Jack this weekend. Kim’s gone on a hen weekend in St. Davids in Pembroke, where she’ll be coasteering and kayakng as well as getting blotto. I wonder how wet they’ll get. It’s boody freezing. What shall we do…? We’ve got some errands to run this morning, and we’ll pop round to…

Canon 300D or Nikon D70?