Stood up
For my birthday some of my friends grouped together to give me money to get some drum lessons (not that I really need them of course given my already excellent drumming skills, but it would be...
View ArticleSur le Pont
I was away travelling a couple of times last month, but have been remiss in writing it up, so here's a brief roundup of where I got to.My first trip at the start of the month was to Nice and was an...
View ArticleAwe-some
Last weekend was my first canoe club trip of the new academic year. As it's the start of new term this was a freshers trip and we had a good contingent of beginners (about 6 of them to the 5 of us...
View ArticleHelp desk
I'm down in London at the moment it's transpired that I've spent the last two days working in the cloisters (and student union, and quad) at UCL (my alma mater). While sitting in the cloisters with my...
View ArticleBack on the ladder
It appears that after three and a half months out of home ownership I'll soon be back on the property ladder. My girlfriend and I decided a month or so back to buy a place together, but hadn't actually...
View ArticleThe Leny
This is just a quick (but rather late) post aimed at continuing the documentation of the river's I've paddled. A couple of weeks ago we had a trip to the River Leny - the original plan (made the...
View ArticleAargh-and diagrams
While eating lunch I was browsing the BBC News website and started reading this article by Marcus du Sautoy on how diagrams have aided and furthered our understanding of scientific concepts. All fine....
View ArticleKeys
On Friday my girlfriend and I picked up the keys to our new flat. It's exciting to have a new place, but there's plenty to do to it to get it ready for habitation (well it is/was [before we started...
View ArticleApologies for the interuption to service
Before the end of the first month of 2011 I thought I should at least get one post out. My blogosphere hiatus has mainly been due to the new flat I mentioned nearly two months ago, but there's also...
View ArticleWaiting for the envelop (sic)
Read this if you want to find out what's being keeping us gravitational wave types occupied for the last few months. At some point I might elaborate a bit more in this. (The title of this post will...
View ArticleStepping off the ladder
After a long break from posts I thought I return with a proper science-based post. A few days ago a couple of friends of mine posted this very interesting paper on the pre-print arXiv:Measuring a...
View ArticleThe flat
Thought I'd post something about the flat my girlfriend (actually fiancée now) and I bought seeing as it has been one of the reasons for the sparseness of my blogging. When we bought the flat we knew...
View ArticleChanging rooms
By popular demand I've decided to post some "after" photos of our new flat. I hope you enjoy our handiwork. This is the "red room" and was the first room to be painted (see here for comparison) - the...
View ArticleBack in the water
Due to the flat purchase and renovation it's been almost a year since I was last out kayaking on a river (I didn't think it was that long, but the blog doesn't lie!), but yesterday I got myself on one...
View ArticleFirst trip to Fort William
Today saw my first ever kayaking trip north of Glencoe - in fact it was my first ever trip north of Glencoe up the west coast of Scotland for any reason. The canoe club were having a full weekend of...
View ArticleSlalom in the sunshine
Today was one of the final canoe club trips of the academic year. But, unlike most club trips this one was happening on a gloriously hot and sunny day rather than the standard weather of cold, wet and...
View ArticleHoneymoon: Day 1
It's been over a month since my wife and I got back from our honeymoon. While away we kept notes of what we did each day with the plan to write these up here as soon as we returned. Well it took a bit...
View ArticleHoneymoon: Day 2
11/04/12 - We got up at a reasonable time in the morning as we wanted to make the most of the day and get down to breakfast before it was cleared away. Breakfast in the hotel was nice, although not the...
View ArticleHoneymoon: Day 3
12/04/12 - After the exhausting day of walking the day before we slept in until 11am. After getting up we swapped rooms, being downgraded back down to the style of room we'd paid for. Had we not had...
View ArticleHoneymoon: Days 4-6
I'm going to start shortening and merging the honeymoon posts now otherwise I'll never finish writing them!The "Guide Map of the Jinshanling Great Wall"13/04/12 - We were up early on Friday for our...
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