ctually, it is totally ideal when winning means you have to go on to the next heats in the competition, and you only entered on a whim and don’t have time (or inclination) to compete seriously. In that situation, second place is the perfect result. So I’m very pleased with the second place certificate I…
As promised, a picture of the quilt top I sewed for my supervisor’s baby while I was on sick leave: It’s an “eye spy” quilt – each of the squares is a fabric with different pictures on it (or letters or numbers, in some), so when the child gets older it becomes an eye spy…
ow, time has sped by again, and it’s already two weeks since my operation (and already September, and spring!). I did mean to come back and write something more substantial than my brief post-op note of stillalivitude, but for the first week or so sitting at the computer was painful and not conducive to writing…
They kept me in the hospital last night (mainly because I was last in the queue for day surgery, so didn’t get out until about 6 pm, by which time it was easier to transfer me to a ward than wait round until I was awake enough to go home), so I’ve only just got…
So you know a while back (ok, I just checked – it was more than a year ago) I mentioned how I was low in iron, and the doctor wanted to do a few tests to find out why. Well, those tests led to a few more tests, and scans, and having cameras inserted in…
As usual, I’ve failed at keeping up with my blog (and my promise to upload the rest of my Athens journal), and as usual the excuse is being too busy with thesis stuff. I’m kind of buried under an avalanche of data at the moment, and it’s taking much longer than I anticipated to dig…
Yeah, my good intentions to get my travel journal posted didn’t come to much, did they? Usual excuse – I’ve been too busy to sit down and write (actually, it’s not the writing that takes the time, because all I have to do is transcribe the handwritten journal I keep when I’m travelling. It’s the…
Saturday 23 April, 11 am, at the convention We’re about to have a guest speaker, and I’m not sure whether they’ll be speaking in English or Greek, so this seems like a good opportunity to catch up a bit. So, after Zeus’s temple we wanted to try and find the Lykia where Aristotle taught. It…
Friday 22 April Another long and super busy day. Last night, of course, was the pre-convention dinner. We made it there only a few minutes late (at the expense of not having had time to go home and get cleaned up and changed first, as we’d hoped to), and quickly spotted the other bookcrossers. Of…
Thursday 21 April 2016, 3 pm, Athens In a seafood restaurant, having just gorged on greek salad, boiled wild greens, eggplant dip, fried zucchini, squid, sardines, mussels… just a light lunch 🙂 We’ve been on the go all day, so I still haven’t managed to sit down and write. But, briefly back to the story…