... always make sure there's plenty of room for those difficult-to-store items.


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Her Monkeyship has taken to dancing in a big way recently. We've been going to see morris dancing a lot over the past few weeks (the beloved being doing a lot of the dancing) and she's seen a bit of me practising bellydance (plus some bellydance superstars on DVD ( Read more... )

This weekend was one of the ones that remind you of how good life is!

It all started with a bit of a rush for me, as our babysitter's car died horribly, so I had to do a quick dash over to collect her on Friday night. Got back to the house, booted her out of the car, picked up the beloved, cygnet and pogona (who had braved the motorway to get to us) and ( Read more... )

I have no meetings booked for today at all.

It's not easy being two, y'know. You're mobile, you're active, you can do so much! The world is your squeaky toy of choice! And it's all so new and exciting!


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Congratulations! Your recently accepted article, "SPECTRUM EFFICIENCY GAINS RESULTING FROM THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADAPTIVE TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL IN FIXED TERRESTRIAL LINKS AT 38 GHZ", is now available on the AGU Papers in Press site:

I celebrated by having a chocolate doughnut for breakfast (well, that's what the organisers gave us).

The beloved sent me a really lovely video of her Monkeyship saying "haby mummy buddy mummy"

And at the conference dinner the next day, the UK delegation surprised me with cake. Then we went and drank cocktails and wrote press releases at 2am ( Read more... )

The weather over the weekend was lovely, and on Saturday we had a day out to the Living Rainforest1. We had a picnic and icecream, her Monkeyship played on the swings and we saw all the animals. And because it was such good weather, and the royal Berkshire show was on, the place was deserted. So we saw a lot more of the free-range birds and ( Read more... )

Hallelujah and praise the Lord! I have finally found a place in Boulder which serves a decent cup of tea!

It's the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse and not only is the food gorgeous, but they have a seven page tea menu. Honestly, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven ( Read more... )

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