I’m off on a week long holiday! Sorry that the blog will go quiet until I get back but P has threatened to disown me if I take my laptop which, I suppose, is fair enough. So I’ll just be forced to enjoy sitting on the beach, drinking cocktails and being a tourist. Cheers!… Continue reading Holiday!
Last month I tried writing a round up for the first time, having stolen the idea from Gordon and Siobhan. It worked, I liked writing it, and I think it fits nicely with my Trying New Things posts, so I’m doing it again this month. Without any further ado, here’s my April round up: Financial… Continue reading April round up
As usual, this month I’ve been 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. This month I’ve tried: Visiting Arran This Easter we visited the Isle… Continue reading New things I tried in April
Easter kind of crept up on my this year. Or maybe it was just April that crept up on me. The year seems to be flying by. Anyway, the Monday before the Easter weekend, P and I realised that we both had Easter Monday off work (I also had Good Friday off but I’m trying… Continue reading Visit to Arran
One of the side effects of being able to do public speaking is that people ask you to do it. If you’ve given a few successful talks and you aren’t terrified of standing up in front of a room full of people, then you’re going to get asked favours that involve public speaking. Especially if… Continue reading Speaking to new graduate students at Firbush, Loch Tay
Each year, around my birthday, P and I take a trip up to Aviemore for the weekend. Aviemore is a small Scottish town in the highlands, in the Cairngorms National Park. Usually, the plan is to go up Cairngorm for some snowboarding. I should point out that snowboarding on Scottish mountains is not like snowboarding… Continue reading Weekend in Aviemore
I always have mixed feelings about New Year’s resolutions. Like, why do I have to wait until 1st January to start improving myself and my life? Shouldn’t I be doing that anyway? Also, if everyone apparently knows that we’ll all have given up by midway through March, is there any point? So, instead, I’m jumping… Continue reading 2017 Goals
One of my new Year’s resolutions for 2016 was to try as many new things as I could. Most months I succeeded and managed to share a post about the new things I’d been trying. Some months I failed but, then, it has been kind of a busy year. I think this is a really… Continue reading Favourite new things I tried in 2016
This is part of the series of trying new things. Every month I challenge myself to try new things, however big or small those things may be. Sometimes it’ll just be a TV show or a recipe, sometimes it’ll be an event or an activity. Anything could happen. Then, I list five things I tried… Continue reading New things I tried in November
During our Brussels trip, we visited a famous landmark and one which surely must appeal to many geeks and nerds like us and must attract them from miles around – The Atomium. Isn’t that cool? The Atomium is a 102 meter tall model of an iron crystal. Such a crystal would need to be magnified… Continue reading The Atomium
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