Well, the purchase of a sinfully equipped laptop and home broadband installation (the result of the on-going ludricous non-net access situation at work) has given me the opportunity (i.e. time at home!) to continue LJ-ing.

I do not promise to be anything approaching consistent. However I thought this would be a nice place to record my monthly ( Read more... )

Everything was going oh-so-swimmingly, in fact suspiciously so, until Saturday morning ( Read more... )

Ironically, the only people that my estate agent did NOT show my house to, gave me an offer this morning that I could not refuse. They seem to be really nice people, are not involved in a chain (hooray!) and have said that they can complete within a month. So it’s chocks away and off I go to Cornwall. I am delighted ( Read more... )

We (Plymouth Marine Laboratory staff) have just sat through an astonishing seminar, given by Dave. Dave is the fittest 82 year old that I have ever clapped eyes on. He is an ex-police diver, but not an ex-diver; he still dives a couple of times a week, throughout the year. Dave has also built up quite a reputation within the local area as a rather ( Read more... )

Drink of the day: Fill half a tall glass with ice, add the juice of one lime, two fingers of lemon vodka (three if it’s been a bad day) and fill to the top with tonic water.

Mmmm. Lovely.

What's your favourite drink?

As I type, the washing machine is noisily revolving behind me. Honestly, why do these things have to be so bloody loud. As predicted, earlier today I did indeed manage to spill sperm harvested from a particularly attractive male down my jeans.

I wiped it off as best I could, then continued monitoring the fertilisation of my oyster eggs through a ( Read more... )

Harmonious living, punctuated by the occasional squabble over choice pieces of chicken, has once again descended upon rat-dom. This has been occasioned, I suspect, by the uniting persistent, if erroneous, belief that they are permanently placed upon survival rations ( Read more... )

Well, when I quietly stuck my head around the corner this morning, all appeared well in the rat-dom. There was no sign of any rat, leaving me to presume that all three were harmoniously snuggled up together in their ‘house’. Unless, of course, there were one or more escapees, currently wreaking havoc with electrical cables which were on the cusp of ( Read more... )

As mentioned elsewhere, I have distressingly little ‘spare’ time at the marine lab. I mean, what are they expecting me to do all day? Work ( Read more... )