The mystery is solved!
The phantom marmite deliverer was Rarsberry. Thanks!
I am deep in the throes of data modelling, trying to find a statistical model that adequately describes my data so that I can produce some results to write about in my thesis. In practical terms, what this means is feeding the computer my data plus a long equation that contains all of the factors…
I’m looking after a colleague’s animals for a few days while she’s away – a cat, and (unusually for a suburban household) two chickens. I’ve discovered there are advantages to looking after chickens – while the cat just gave me tonnes of affection when I turned up this morning, the chickens gave me a gift:…
I thought I’d be sitting down to write a blog post tonight about how happy I was to finally have my leaking pipe fixed. After all, I rang the plumber this morning to remind him that he’d promised me about a month ago that he’d come back with the parts to fix it in a…
uarter to seven, and I’m still at work. Don’t worry, I’m not actually working though – I’m not high enough up the food chain to be willing to do unpaid overtime! I was putting the final touches on my presentation on Bislama that we’re giving to the local Vanuatu community on Sunday, then I remembered…
The best thing about having a week off and nothing in particular planned for it, is that you don’t feel like you’ve wasted your time when you get unexpectedly sidetracked into a project – like totally reorganising how you store your fabric (to pick an example completely at random 🙂 ) Yeah. I started this…
very few weeks at work someone in the office will declare it time for a cake run, and one of us will run down to the cafe for a selection of cakes and slices. Such a need arose this morning, so I duly undertook the cake run and we had a morning-tea break enhanced by…