Status: Extreme Busyness

[nanila]

I've had a heck of a week. Keiki was off nursery Tuesday and Wednesday. I looked after him on Tuesday. I flew from Birmingham to Noordwijk on Wednesday and the bloke looked after Keiki. I was at an all-day meeting on Thursday at ESTEC (ESA centre in the Netherlands). I flew to London on Thursday night. This morning (Friday) I went to a four-hour meeting (at which I gave a presentation) and then ran over to another building to give an outreach talk to a large group of teenage girls about what it's like to be a spacecraft engineer.

At least I did it all whilst looking rivet af.


[Me in my Noordwijk hotel room, wearing Docs, purple tights, my black wool coat with the fluffy collar and my engineer dress from Svaha.]


[Keiki with our first daffodil.]


[Humuhumu and Keiki pretending to be ducks.]


[Panorama from my hotel room window. I got the top floor this time!]


[Saying hello to the mermaid in front of the Palace Hotel.]


[Me in the hotel bar with vodka tonic, sporting my Solar Orbiter polo shirt.]


[Starling murmuration over the Huis ter Duin hotel in Noordwijk at sunset.]


[Walkway down to the beach from the Noordwijk promenade at sunset.]


[My booted foot in the moonboot footprint on the Noordwijk promenade.]


[Selfie on the Noordwijk beach, looking out at the sunset.]


[View over central London at night from the plane.]

Comments

[cmcmck]

You can't beat docs.

My floral pair wore out a while back and I must replace them!

[nanila]

Agreed on both counts! I can't remember exactly when I bought these, but I've looked after them carefully for many years of service.

[kotturinn]

I feel shattered just reading that first paragraph!
Nice photos - thanks.

[nanila]

Sorry! I went to bed at 8:30 PM last night. Even though I had to get up in the night for an hour with the toddler, it was totally worth it. I feel vaguely human again.

[kotturinn]

No need to apologise! I'm glad you got a good night's sleep!!

[clanwilliam]

Lovely pics. I'm off to Cloggieland at the end of the month and really looking forward to it. Although I'll be spending my time in the Delft/Den Haag area.

[cmcmck]

And there I was thinking Cloggieland was Lancashire! :o)

[nanila]

Thank you. I've been through Den Haag on the train, but not actually spent any time there. I hope you have a great trip!

[ironed_orchid]

I hope you have a restful weekend.

I love your engineering dress and your doc/moonboot photo.

[nanila]

Thank you. The weekend was quite busy but I did manage to get to bed very early last night and am now feeling much better.

[thirdbird]

Hey, I have those Docs! You do look amazing. Hope it's been a good trip.

[nanila]

I must compliment you on your good taste in Docs. ;) Thank you; yes, it was a very productive trip. Which is not something that can be said about every set of meetings, to be sure!

[gwendraith]

I haven't worn my (metallic blue) Docs in ages...

Nice pix, I really like Walkway down to the beach from the Noordwijk promenade at sunset.

[nanila]

Ooh, metallic blue sounds like a great Doc colour.

The only thing the pics can't quite bring home is exactly how sharp and Arctic the winds are in Noordwijk...! My hands were frozen by the time I got back to the hotel.

[silveradept]

Great pictures of all the activity going on, and of you in your SCIENCE outfits.

[nanila]

Thank you!

[lark_ascends]

Sounds like a very very busy week.

Great photos, though. And you looked awesome.

[nanila]

It was. I definitely felt like I'd earned my paycheck at the end of it.

Thank you!

I Heart Brit slang

[ed_rex]

"Looking rivet AF." I'm going to try to use that, if only to confuse a few of my fellow Canucks. And I hope you don't mind me saying that you did look rivet as (well, y'know).

Also, London is a really big city isn't it?

Re: I Heart Brit slang

[nanila]

Heh, thank you!

Yes, yes it is, rather. Never trust a Londoner when they tell you something is "only a five-minute walk away". IT'S NOT.