I made a nice brown wheatgerm loaf (though think I may have added a bit too much salt) as well as basic buttermilk milk rolls for Saturday breakfast, 3:1:1 white spelt/strong white/buckwheat flour.
But today I was taking the bus from Malaga to Granada, which involved finding the bus terminal at the airport once I had got there, but was a ( Read more... )

As in, first paper in first session.
So there's that, and a few people saying they liked it, or that they were sorry to miss it (parallel sessions).
Also I have been able to connect to eduroam, which is sometimes a problem.
Plus, foregathering with people last saw in South Dakota, which was fun - seems like ages ago! which of course it hasn't been ( Read more... )

Today I excursed off to The National Archives at Kew with little optimism in my heart that I would actually find anything relevant to my current research enterprise, but one has to do these things, and at least I could get an uptodate reader's ticket out of it.
Fortunately today is cooler than it has been of late.
I am not sure it was really such a ( Read more... )

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So many matters I have to be dealing with or holding in my mind, that I can't seem to be about thinky posts at all.
Anyway, I succeeded in getting through to the shuttle company first thing this morning, and found that the problem last night was actually at their end with phones out, and have succeeded in paying for the shuttle, so that's done.
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And I suspect that it is Very Much Not Done to yell 'Speak up' or 'Use the Mike' when someone is giving an important formal lecture signifying professional advancement.
Maybe my hearing is getting even worse than I thought? Or maybe that lecture theatre has really crap acoustics.
(Speaker is a lovely person who does lovely work, and I bought the ( Read more... )

Except some of it doesn't seem to be, o hai, I am now making an effort, it is more that various academic things (seminars, conferences, etc) that I had flagged up in my diary ages ago finally came up and were all within the space of a few weeks, I don't know, it's the 'like buses' phenomenon. And some of them I did do some social interaction at and ( Read more... )

Last night I succeeded in foregathering with
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In fact the journey out to the hotel was less arduous than I supposed, though there was still a point where I had to wrestle my suitcase down a flight of steps to the platform. However, at the other end, I set off in what did turn out to be the right direction to walk to the hotel.
Alas, once there there was some delay in checking me in, as it was ( Read more... )

Even though I had a reasonably decent night's sleep last night.
Good meetings with people and good conversations, some tasty food, a panel that (I think) went fairly well even though it was in the room I hate, with the speakers on a platform and a spread-out audience, and cold. (One might also mention the single microphone that had to be handed ( Read more... )