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Extreme reading
Published August 13th, 2008 in Books, Boys, Holidays and Miscellaneous stuff. 0 CommentsIf you look carefully on the State Theta website, you’ll see a picture of Guineapigmum indulging in an arcane Pilates ritual. I’ve been doing Pilates with a local teacher over the winter; just what I’ve needed to get my much abused body back under control. Anyhow, Audicia is planning to hold a series of classes [...]
We’ve just been watching a Horizon programme about gravity. Newton, apparently, got it wrong; if you calculate his formula the moon should be about 10m to the left. As GP2 said “That’s like getting 99 1/2% in a test and being told you have to try harder”.
How do they know all this? Buzz & Neil & Co [...]
Life goes on
Published December 12th, 2007 in Blogging, Boys, Miscellaneous stuff, Out & about, School, Working at home, ovarian cancer and sport. 9 CommentsIn fact, it goes on at such a pace there doesn’t seem to be time to write blog posts. And that’s with no significant work to do for a week or so. Bliss! Christmas shopping and meeting fellow bloggers without feeling that there’s something else I should be doing. Make the most of it. It won’t [...]
Time for coffee?
Published December 4th, 2007 in Blogging, Miscellaneous stuff and Out & about. 3 CommentsI know everyone else is working, or living somewhere more exotic than Edinburgh, but my desk is clear for the first time in years. So Mother at Large and I are meeting for coffee tomorrow at the Cafe Grande in Bruntsfield. 1030 if anyone else can organise a skive. I’m hoping we’ll be able to wander up [...]
Whacky science
Published November 8th, 2007 in Atlantis, Diving, Miscellaneous stuff and Out & about. 0 CommentsI’ve just read Salmon fishing in the Yemen which should, I think, be compulsory reading for all scientific civil servants. It was certainly compulsive reading, and very funny, with its descriptions of a whacky project to establish a North Atlantic salmon run in the Yemen desert, the inevitable political machinations that arose and the talk of big [...]
It’s good to talk - Part 2
Published November 7th, 2007 in Communication, Miscellaneous stuff, NHS and ovarian cancer. 7 CommentsNuns get it, apparently. Non-smokers get it. Ovarian cancer, that is. I can make no claims to anything in the nun department, despite the nunhood clearly being my destiny at 7 years old. Seven year olds are notoriously fickle, though, so by the time I was 8 I had the medical profession in my sights. Given recent events, [...]
Life in the raw
Published October 24th, 2007 in East Lothian, Miscellaneous stuff and Out & about. 0 CommentsIf I had taken a camera with me yesterday, I could have shown you one of our beautiful East Lothian beaches - blue sky, golden sand, glittering sea. Today, now my sister has gone home, I went for a dose of Vitamin D along the path behind the house to the woods. I should have had [...]
When I say that my children don’t tell me anything that goes on at school, what I really mean is that they don’t tell me anything that the teachers think I should know. Just occasionally I’m regaled with something so exciting that they’re barely through the front door before the talk starts, words tripping over each [...]
For the vertically challenged
Published September 14th, 2007 in Family and Miscellaneous stuff. 0 CommentsA recent article in The Guardian suggests that I may be able to blame my, well, slightly petite stature not on the vagaries of the gene pool or on coeliac disease or on the fact that I’m just short, no reason OK just get on with it, but indeed on my older brother and sister. [...]
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