It was 26th August 2016 that we got the keys to our little flat in Falkirk. We didn’t fully move in right away, we handed the keys for our old flat back on 11th September, having spent the weeks in between moving all of our stuff. Even once we had moved in the place didn’t… Continue reading One year in Falkirk
As usual, last month I was going out of my way to try new things. It’s a habit I strongly recommend and I always enjoy looking back at the end of the month to see what I’ve been able to try. In July I tried: 1. Working as a trainee patent attorney I started working… Continue reading New things I tried in July
I handed my thesis in three weeks ago and I’m still not fully back in the swing of things. Here’s how my daily routine used to go: 6:30: Get up, shower, dress, make and eat breakfast, make lunch to take to work, browse the internet, type out a draft of blog post or a review… Continue reading Trying to get my routine back
I walk to work and back every day, the trip takes me about 30 minutes and, although the weather isn’t always great, it’s a nice route. I walk through Finnieston (the hippest neighbourhood in the UK) and usually through Kelvingrove Park. As commutes go I’m pretty lucky and I’m going to seriously miss it when… Continue reading Commuting with coffee in Finnieston
Right now, one of the gates to the university is closed and barricaded off in order to allow some works to be completed. It’s going to be closed for around five weeks. Naturally, at the start of this week I managed to miss the memo, I arrived at the very closed gate and was forced… Continue reading Adjusting my commute
I mentioned the other day that we’ll soon be moving to make both of our commutes bearable. Naturally, we want to live somewhere which gives us similar, but ideally short, commute times. So, for example, if we both have to spend an hour on the train then it doesn’t make sense to move, but if… Continue reading Exploring Falkirk
I mentioned on Tuesday that I have a new job (Yay! So far, so good) well, I’m not the only one. My PhD funding ran out at the same time as P’s did, we were both funded by the STFC which means that for 3.5-year funding programmes everything dries up in March, in our case… Continue reading Moving away
When I was about 16 I listened to music all day every day. MP3 players were kind of a new thing. My first one had 32 MB of space – enough for about two albums. When I eventually got an MP3 player which had space for 4 GB of songs I thought I’d hit the… Continue reading Music and my listening habits
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