Old farm,
Ee-i-ee-i-o.
Dog.
Ee-i-ee-i-o.
Woof woof here, woof woof there.
Woof, woof, woof woof woof!
Old farm,
Ee-i-ee-i-o.

It is starting to feel very weird. In three days we will be on our way home, via England. I have been looking foward to this for ages and I'm very excited, but it is still weird! I expected to be frantically working in my last few weeks, and of course to a certain degree I am, but since Hugh and Stuart are both sick and have required antibiotics ( Read more... )

Have a look at the three intrepid travellers on auditorsrgr8's journal. I still haven't spent the time to work out why I can't post photos, despite all the helpful advice given to me last time! I really will do it when we get back ( Read more... )

It has been a very warm winter here so far, often as warm as 15 degrees during the day. But now we finally have proper snow! It snowed yesterday, then all night last night and all morning, and it is still snowing now. I walked down by the park to the train station this morning marvelling at how beautiful it was, only to discover when I arrived that ( Read more... )

We went to London last week, and here are some fun things that happened ( Read more... )

Stuart took his first unsupported steps today! I'm really glad it happened when Hugh and I were both at home. I was with Stuart in the kitchen, making his dinner. He took a few steps alone and I called Hugh, but he had stopped by the time Hugh arrived. Then he did it again, and this time when Hugh came in Stuart walked for the third time towards ( Read more... )

I have finished the green and white stripey jumper and trousers I have been knitting for Stuart ever since we arrived in Germany. See Hugh's journal for a picture - for some reason he can post photos and I can't. Don't they look lovely? We took him to the doctor on Friday to check that the tonsilitis was all gone, and he wore his new clothes (over ( Read more... )

I have just submitted a paper based on work from my PhD to the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. This is the first paper I have submitted from my thesis! This is really exciting, but also slightly depressing, since it is more than a year since I handed in my thesis and I have about another 6-7 potential papers to extract from it ... ( Read more... )

I keep planning to post about things and being so busy that I don't do it straight away, then it gets left longer and longer until it seems irrelevant and I don't do it at all. So even though Stuart's birthday is more than a week ago, I'm going to post about it anyway ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to Hugh for yesterday! I think Hugh had a good day, with presents, phone calls and emails from Australia as well as (of course) presents from me and Stuart! Stuart behaved himself very well. He helped decorate the wrapping paper used to wrap his present for Hugh (he is just at the stage of being able to scribble with a pencil), ( Read more... )