Look! An update!
Life is too short. But especially in the last six months things have been kinduv crazy ... and this will continue for a couple of months yet. So I've been pretty crp about staying in touch with folks.
So I started the new job about 7 months ago and moved to Swindon.
The thesis is now printed and submitted after ~6 months of sitting on my hard drive inactive. I'm currently waiting for an exam date.
We are in the process of moving into the new house in Lechlade which we are (very) busy trying to sort out... new drive should arrive on the back of a lorry sometime next week, lots of painting and gardening and so on been done already but still needs (lots) more work.
Learning to drive. Test next week which I expect to fail, but we'll see how it goes...
And also off to china in a couple of weeks to find the deepest cave in the world (aka mess around in the hills for a couple of weeks). Which should be exciting!
Then giving a conference talk at NuFact immediately afterwards... I have a deadline for everything finished by the end of next week or so. I might suggest to my boss to turn the work into a journal paper at some point as well. We'll see if it works.
Plus all the usual stuff ... competed in the Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon a couple of weeks ago. We entered the D (easy) course - 45 km through the Scottish highlands over two days, carrying all of our camping kit. We came in the top 40 in a field of 140 which I thought was pretty good for a first time.
Caving as usual, but also getting into the cycling (I commute 10 km each way on the bike at the moment). I'm quite keen to try a longer distance bike ride at some point (100 km+) but perhaps won't be time this summer.
Hopefully come September things should calm down a bit (but I doubt it)!
So I started the new job about 7 months ago and moved to Swindon.
The thesis is now printed and submitted after ~6 months of sitting on my hard drive inactive. I'm currently waiting for an exam date.
We are in the process of moving into the new house in Lechlade which we are (very) busy trying to sort out... new drive should arrive on the back of a lorry sometime next week, lots of painting and gardening and so on been done already but still needs (lots) more work.
Learning to drive. Test next week which I expect to fail, but we'll see how it goes...
And also off to china in a couple of weeks to find the deepest cave in the world (aka mess around in the hills for a couple of weeks). Which should be exciting!
Then giving a conference talk at NuFact immediately afterwards... I have a deadline for everything finished by the end of next week or so. I might suggest to my boss to turn the work into a journal paper at some point as well. We'll see if it works.
Plus all the usual stuff ... competed in the Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon a couple of weeks ago. We entered the D (easy) course - 45 km through the Scottish highlands over two days, carrying all of our camping kit. We came in the top 40 in a field of 140 which I thought was pretty good for a first time.
Caving as usual, but also getting into the cycling (I commute 10 km each way on the bike at the moment). I'm quite keen to try a longer distance bike ride at some point (100 km+) but perhaps won't be time this summer.
Hopefully come September things should calm down a bit (but I doubt it)!