Our landlord installed a shiny new oven as our old one, lovingly nicknamed "The Incinerator", finally went to oven heaven. Huzzah!

Housemate A immediately starts roasting and grilling meats in the oven, splattering fat all over the insides, latest experiment in progress being a whole chicken.

Me: "Um, can we perhaps, maybe, clean the oven after ( Read more... )

I think the woman from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service interviewed yesterday morning on Radio 4 deserves a medal for levelheadedness in the face of ignorance, stupidity and virulent outbreaks of patriarchalism.

She was interviewed as her charity is seeking a change in the law to allow women undergoing an early medical abortion to take the ( Read more... )

Today I've been given flowers and chocolates. It was the last day of lab work for the two students I supervised since last summer and they totally surprised me with that one. Yes, they had already told me on several occasions that they really liked doing lab work with me, but this is something different. And makes me feel all warm and happy and ( Read more... )