Happy new year (again). We’re slowly gearing back up for lots of fun things at ErrantScience. Currently I’m working on two seasonal projects called “hugging a hot water bottle” and “taking all the flu meds”. But luckily both projects are working well enough to carry on with exciting things like Read more…
I am terrible at gifts. I realise this is a strange way to start an article titled “Gift ideas…” but I wanted to be honest. In the many years of being asked “What do you want for Christmas” there has never not been a year where I haven’t frozen like Read more…
Dear Santa, I realise it’s been a while since I wrote to you. In fact if memory serves, the last time was in about 1987 when I scrawled “I want Nintendo” on some paper and threw it out of my bedroom window. Now that I think about it, you may have Read more…
It’s almost Christmas time. Note that I said almost and not “OMG, it’s Christmas!!” because it’s still November and there is no way I’m accepting the start of Christmas till December the 1st, at the very earliest. Although, the more attentive amongst you may call me a hypocrite, as I did Read more…
Every Researcher down in Labville liked Christmas a lot…
But the Lab Manager, in the office above Labville, did NOT!
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the laboratory
Not a experiment was stirring, not even the gas chromatography;
The labcoats were hung by the door with great care,
In hope whomever’s turn it was to wash them soon would be there;
I have a fixed holiday contract whereby I get a certain number of days of holiday a year. Cranfield University are very generous and I get lots of holiday days to go do things other than research. However, this holiday system this year has been thwarted by two things. Firstly, Read more…