As promised, a totally selling-out post on the Food Show, which I attended today (with Lytteltonwitch as my trusty assistant) thanks to free passes from a friendly PR person. I was greatly amused when the free passes turned out to be media passes! Yes, I know blogging is social media and all that, but it’s…
Dad was in town yesterday, so I took advantage of having access to a vehicle to go round a few places over on Blenheim Road and investigate wood burners (as my one has been declared too old to live by the dreaded ECAN, so I need to replace it before next winter or face a…
nother Christmas function today (almost the last one for the year) – this one for the College of Arts office staff, which they invited our office to, seeing as they share a corridor with us. As well as a pot-luck lunch, the big event was the announcing of the winners of the Christmas door decorations…
uite apart from the whole winning an award thing, yesterday was really interesting. For a start, I got to go and visit (and even better, take some photographs of) the Canterbury Cultural Collections Recovery Centre. The CCCRC is an amazing place – it’s a giant climate-controlled hangar that stores all the material from the various…
ometimes working at the university has its definite perks. Like today when I got to go to a fascinating lecture being given by Alison Griffith of the Classics department on the history of writing, illustrated with objects from the Logie Collection, like Sumerian cuneiform tablets, Egyptian mummy wrappings, and Roman memorial stones. Really interesting stuff,…
Only three months to go until my thesis submission deadline, so it’s very much nose to the grindstone around here. I’m making exciting progress though – one of my data sets is complete and I’ve almost managed to construct a statistical model to describe it, and the other data set is almost ready (“almost” being…
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That looks yummy! I’ve never had any other chutney besides plain old “Fruit chutney” from Coles.