Note: Hi everyone. Sorry for possible weirdness at the weekend. Sometimes WordPress does strange things when I try to schedule posts ahead of time. If you got an email with a link you can’t follow anymore, don’t worry, it’ll show up soon. In the meantime, I guess I’ll send WordPress another irritable email myself. Ok,… Continue reading Movie review: Assassin’s Creed
In this post I wrote about getting to go play board games with Raj and co on Saturday. On Sunday, I did something different to up my nerd score: I went along to an introduction to Dungeons and Dragons. I recently came across a group called girl geek brunch. I am female, geeky and a… Continue reading A weekend of gaming, part 2
Waaaaaaaaay back in summer 2015 Jamie Gallagher, who is the public engagement officer at the University of Glasgow got in touch to suggest that I might want to apply for a prize that was being run by the IOP (Institute of Physics). The prize was for early career physics communicators. Since science communication and public… Continue reading Early Career Physics Communicator Award
Do you do bad movie nights? Do you know what I mean? You get together with some friends to watch a bunch of films that are so bad they’re good? I do bad movie nights. Not as much as I’d like to but, still, I do them. When looking at movie ratings on IMDB my… Continue reading Bad movie nights
I love Halloween, partly because it’s an excuse to party and partly because it’s an excuse to put together a costume. I’m not much of a “cos player” but in the past couple of years I’ve made an effort with my boyfriend and we’ve done some pretty cool couples costumes. This year we did Dr Krieger… Continue reading Halloween costumes
I’m guessing that in recent months almost everyone has read The Martian. I had three different people recommend it to me by the time the trailer for the movie was out. I’d already picked it up for my Kindle after the first recommendation, which had been intriguing enough, someone I’d met that day had said, “You’ll… Continue reading Book Review: The Martian
I play board games with two separate groups of friends. One group normally settles in for a round or two of Catan, maybe something else quick if someone has brought along something they want to try. With the other group I’ve only ever played one game twice, the fantastic Boss Monster. I used to semi-regularly… Continue reading Board game nights
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