Category: Daily

My train was delayed slightly this morning, because of sheep straying on to the track. I love living in Wales 🙂

The Charlie’s Angels webcam in Cardiff has had its plug pulled. We may receive the odd image though, so I’ll leave the most recent picture up (that’s the pics in the right hand bar).

Wow. Everybody’s cycling to work this morning. There are 5 bikes on the train. What’s so special about today? It has been sunny for ages, so it can’t be just the weather. Bizarre. I don’t think this will be a common problem, although it would be nice if it was.

Back in Swansea today. The train felt a lot smaller this morning after those Belgian jobs. Oh well. Train travel is more expensive over here too. Look what I had to put together this morning: Jo had left these goodies on my desk. This is a prototype of the PCs we’re going to buy for…

Oh man, you’ll never believe this. The work I had submitted to the ICRS meeting was shortlisted for the Award for Excellence in Cartilage Research (or some such title). I was sitting through the awards ceremony, waiting to finish and go back to the hotel, and up came a slide with the 5 contenders for…

I’ve almost kind of finished writing my talk for the ICRS meeting this week. Well, I’ve put the slides together. Do you want to see my presentation?

What a superb weekend! Sunny AND productive. I had laid the mortar I needed on Wednesday and Thursday evenings last week, and laid out the outer joists for my new garden deck on the Thursday evening. My mum came to visit on the Friday, bringing with her a bench saw borrowed from a friend in…

Maybe I should do some more triathlons. I had another puncture this morning: going fast down a hill and over some potholes I had an impact puncture. Explicable at least. So I ended up having to cycle hard to get to the station in time and then run down the platform to catch the train.…

I went running along side the beach this afternoon for the first time in a couple of weeks. The sun had brought out a few more runners than usual and I was expecting a struggle with both fitness and speed. This cycling to work every day is paying off already it seems: I ran faster,…

Yesterday’s post was my 500th entry!