Year: 2007

  • Blue Men

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    Jack is watching the Blue Man Group and drumming along with cardboard tubes from wrapping paper and two orange spoons. He’s following the rhythm too. I’m just glad he doesn’t want to paint his whole head blue.

  • Flawed Stem Cell Paper Withdrawn

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    The New Scientist has recently questioned data presented in a Nature paper that described pluripotent cells present in adult bone marrow (link). Clearly a potentially very promising resource, do these cells really have the originally described abilities? New Scientist article here.

  • Afternoon nap is good for the heart

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    A recently completed study says that having regular naps in the middle of the day helps reduce the risk of heart disease. Right, that’s enough evidence for me. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. BBC article link.

  • Snow

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    We did have some snow on Friday. Friday’s are probably the worst days to have snow if you’re at work and you drive because although it’s a great reason to start the weekend early, everyone else has the same idea. The roads get clogged (we don’t have a huge army of snowplows for once a…

  • Caswell Sand

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    I’m a lazy blogger. Stu and Lisa came to visit in the first weekend of February and we popped down to a beach in the good weather. Jack’s firefighting imagination came with him and we built piles of sand (fires) which he put out with buckets of water. It all worked rather well, as the…

  • Gower Golf Club

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    I was practicing on the chipping range in the late evening, over a week ago. On top of the hill the views and sunsets are great.

  • Down time

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    It’s good to be back on the bike. My hamstring injury didn’t seem to be getting much better so I tried to take a full 9 days off any sort of exercise, which included my daily cycle to work. Very inconvenient. I can’t say that it feels as though it has helped much (but it…

  • Colouring in

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    Here’s a funny thing. I’m working from home and sat at the kitchen table with Jack. Jack’s colouring in Fireman Sam pictures. I’m also colouring in. I’ve been drawing some heart development diagrams for the cardiovascular embryology podcast in Adobe Illustrator and I’m about to colour these in too. Hmmm.

  • Hot Fuzz

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    At last, a film to look forward to. Rarely does an upcoming film fill me with anticipation these days (as most seem to be a remake of a remake of a book) but I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. The next film to follow Shaun of the Dead: Hot Fuzz. The TV…

  • Stitch Pain: New light on stitch

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    I often get asked about the cause of the “stitch” pain many people suffer from when running. No-one is entrirely sure of the cause or if there are multiple causes, but a recent study has helped define it. Sports Injury Bulletin: Stitch pain article. It appears that most people get a stitch on their right…