Rose and I have spent today putting up shelves ( Read more... )

Since Rose is getting very bored of having a broken leg, and we can't have that, I went and promised another few public lectures with the university in exchange for borrowing the vice-chancellor's boat ( Read more... )

Rose went away this morning for a hen... party holiday thing. Something about a spa and drinks and dancing? She's due back tomorrow. Or rather, later on today since it's now gone midnight ( Read more... )

It turns out he's an alien and a student. By which I mean: he (Jev) has a complicated fake identity and he's on Earth on an anthropological research project for his home planet, while pretending to be an anthropology undergraduate at the university. It got a bit recursive ( Read more... )

Well, we're finally back home and are allowed all of the human back. Except the greenhouse. That is still robot-only. The Toaster is back and has made lots of perfectly browned toast in apology. The heating is fine ( Read more... )

I have a craving to make some sandcastles and eat ice cream.

Can we go to the seaside sometime, Rose?

It's either that, or I'll have to ask the robots to build me a beach in our house, and I think a trip seems more sensible!

Fancy an evening of calibrating and watching computers work tomorrow night, Rose? There will be some star-gazing involved, and it's certainly a better telescope than any you'd buy in a shop, so there will be some lovely things to see ( Read more... )

What Rose and I saw yesterday night was actual snow.

H20 frozen in tiny crystalline structures falling to the ground until it was a couple of inches deep.

In AprilAnd then, quick as a flash, it was gone. Well, by "quick as a flash", I mean by the time we got up today ( Read more... )

I have a friend - Daniel, his name is - who did something a bit silly at work recently and I managed to get him out of trouble (and, you know, stop him/the company from losing a couple of million quid's worth of equipment - you'd think people would be more careful!) so he owes me a bit of a favour.

Fancy a flight?Not with that company; that's just ( Read more... )

Our walk in the rain turned into a drive in the rain. Well, Rose did the driving. Something about not wanting speeding tickets, but since I've never had one I think she's just being rude ( Read more... )