if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

A while ago I took part in the UK Biobank study. It's a very large study of the health and habits of the population of the UK. Sounds l...

I had a few days in Nice last week – my first foreign holiday for almost a year.  Holidays for me are about a) food, b) art, c) lazing...

...punctuality is the politeness of princes. Leave on time: only servants wait around at the pleasure of their masters. If you have to w...

One of the secrets of a pleasant life is to be where the Crowd are not. You don't always have to be where the In-Crowd go, but you can...

After my regular Tuesday meeting, I had espresso and pancake (jam and cream cheese) and a read of Aristotle's  Poetics.  Then the rain c...

The other day our Director invited a number of us for a coffee session: it's a semi-informal Q&A with missing supervisors, so he has...

Every now and then I'm entitled to a really trivial entry. I remember Tank when it first came out. It's always had more interesting...