I think we can safely say that autumn has arrived with a vengeance. This weekend has been at best bright but cold, at worst - as it continues to be today - wet, windy and generally cold. Fortunately we got what bits and pieces we needed to done in the garden yesterday morning whilst it was still dry. I picked what remained of the tomatoes. They're ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a long day. I got up earlier than would normally be the case because I had to catch a train to Birmingham. All the specialists working on the castle site I've been doing the animal bone and eggshell for were getting together for a project meeting. Ironically, our meeting room was the back room of a pub *snorts* Archaeologists... Beer ( Read more... )

I now have some images of the eggshell taken with an SEM. A very nice guy in the Engineering Building helped me take them, and they don't look too bad at all bearing in mind neither of us had tried to look at eggshell through an SEM before. It was a learning curve for both of us. I think he was quite interested too since it was as new to him as it ( Read more... )

Today has been quietly productive. I sorted out my bits and pieces for teaching tomorrow, and I've been doing some more work on an animal bone assemblage. Yesterday I did a different assemblage, a small one, which I even got written up and invoiced so I was feeling quite pleased with myself as a result. Every little bit helps ( Read more... )

It's been a bitty day so far, albeit in a productive kind of way. I went in to uni first thing to use the microscope. I took a look at all the eggshell fragments and calculated the thickness of them all. I also swapped one completed box of bone for a new box whilst I was there and then brought that home ( Read more... )

Today is Shrove Tuesday, aka Pancake Day here in the UK. So guess what's on the menu for tonight. Yeup, pancakes *lol ( Read more... )

Doesn't time fly? I hadn't meant to leave it this long between blogs, it just sort of happened. Although I guess in part this was due to the relative sameness of the past week or so. Mum hasn't been well. She went back to work yesterday after about three weeks off with a virus. She had a nasty cough and an inability to stay upright for very long ( Read more... )