Electricity at the Wellcome Collection (on now, to 25th June ( Read more... )

* Hayfever by Frances Hardinge ("I enjoy inventing mini-genres. In this case I seem to have created Lovecraftian culinary fiction ( Read more... )

This weekend, I went to London, mostly to see khalinche off (via a complicated process involving Italian cafes and possibly the worst club in the world). However there was also a certain amount of progress made on life goals, and I have returned with:

• an appointment to get a tattoo[*]
• a chocolate fish

So exciting ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r527b et seq. Airing this week; epidoses on Listen Again for 7 days. Very good so far!


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On Friday I had a meeting at Churchill, and it was a nice sunny morning, so I took my camera along. Sadly it got greyer as the day went on, but we had the exciting Moller Centre tower to play in, and my camera is good at skies, so I got some nice photos anyway. On the way back I popped in to say hello to Cockroft and Eddington. In the evening, angoel and ( Read more... )

There is an amazing anatomical cake exhibition on at St Bart's this weekend, someone should go and see it ( Read more... )

As a consequence of being in London for a conference with someone who went to school down the road, over the past couple of days I have been wandering around a fair bit near Oxford Street and looking above ground level (ground level is mostly boring shops). The architecture is beautiful! I must go and take pictures. (Sadly the other consequence is ( Read more... )