Ok, so I'm bored and on my way home last night I was star gazing, so I thought I would follow up my previous post and yabber on about some of the things we can see in our night sky at the moment.....

The Milky Way galaxy is the spiral galaxy we call home, as do roughly 100 billion other stars. It looks very much like other spiral galaxies when ( Read more... )

......transporting penguins!

I think that's really rather sweet!

Thursday was a great day. It was
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He will be missed..........

It's funny how one tiny incident can completely change your mood!

I had to ring a company for information about one of their products and the guy I spoke to sounded exactly (and I mean exactly) like......... wait for it........ Richmond!!!!

I was transported into a dream world.  I nearly choked when he said "Sorry I've just accidentally logged myself ( Read more... )

Having been inspired by the book I got last week I am taking it upon myself to build up my own collection of photos of angels.  Took a few in the cemetary on Smithdown Road this morning on my way to work ( Read more... )

I've just discovered that I have to do another presentation. The abstract has to be in next week. They love giving us plenty of notice!

Me be stressed now!  Argghh......grrrrrrr........

Will somebody please remind me why I am subjecting myself to this torture otherwise known as a PhD?

I think this poem sums up how I'm feeling right now.....

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have posessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has ( Read more... )

Just realised not told all you luverly people about Saturday yet.......

We had been invited to the opening of an exhibition for kids at the Maritime Museum that Justina has been involved in organising.  The title of the exhibition was Shipwrecked! so of course we took the opportunity to dress up as pirates (again!)

The evening started with me ( Read more... )

You know nothing of the


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