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( May. 4th, 2025 01:34 pm)


I rather missed the boat on this one, apologies for its lateness. In my defence, we've mostly not been in the UK for the past two weeks.

April starts off quite domestic with lots of cat clips, and finishes in central Europe with lots of adventure clips. We travelled from [home] to Vienna, Austria via nine different trains, one of which morphed into a German rail replacement bus services which turned out to be terribly civilised.
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( Apr. 1st, 2025 09:32 am)


Contains the usual round of cats, kids, a little bit more work than usual because I spent a lot of time in the lab, and a quick trip to Cornwall.
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( Mar. 11th, 2025 09:40 am)
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This photo of Comet on the bookshelves in my office made me laugh when I ran across it today, so I'm sharing.
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( Mar. 2nd, 2025 07:38 pm)


A short but busy month, with trips to Wales and the USA. My face makes an appearance in there.
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( Feb. 1st, 2025 01:46 pm)


Trips to Nottinghamshire, Germany, and London feature here, along with time spent at the bouldering gym, on culinary experiments, and serving our lords and masters, the cats.
  1. If you could go back and relive one moment or day from your life, without changing anything, what would you re-experience?


  2. I’m probably supposed to say something about kids here, but if I’m being honest it would be the day Sputnik and Telstar arrived in our lives as tiny kittens. It was such a joyous afternoon (and also I wasn't in pain and exhausted).

  3. If you could witness a moment in history, again without changing anything, what would you want to see?


  4. Just a random day in the time when there were dinosaurs and giant insects. I'd want to be in a protective bubble though, so I'd be safe whilst wandering around gawping at stuff.

  5. f you could talk to a younger version of yourself, what age would you visit and what message would you give?


  6. I'd visit me while my maternal grandparents were alive and I lived with them, and tell me to write in my diary every day. I have strong individual memories of that period in my life but Older!Me wishes I had a more complete record.

  7. If you could choose one moment that would be guaranteed to happen in your future, what would it be and when would it happen?


  8. Becoming a full professor. I’d be happy if it happened any time now, although obviously I have to have enough evidence to make it plausible and then write my promotion case. I won't be too happy if it takes more than five years, though.

  9. Pretend you left a time capsule for yourself 5, 10, 15, 20 or more years ago. You just opened it. What three things from your past are you now holding and what age were you when you buried them?


  10. As a child I'm likely to have buried a pretty shell or a shark's tooth that I found on the beach. As a young adult, probably a graduation photo. As a middle-aged adult, something both my kids wore, like the NASA astronaut costume I brought Humuhumu from the Smithsonian when she was about three.
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( Jan. 1st, 2025 09:21 pm)


Bookended by new whiskies. Plenty of cats, food, and family in between.

Happy New Year!


I went to Sweden, but even so there are still a good number of cat videos in here.
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( Nov. 3rd, 2024 03:45 pm)


My 1SE video is late again! I'm not happy about that, but I am happy about the amount of cats, and about Spooky Season. Will be catching up on all of your videos tonight.


I didn't do very well at taking videos last month, but perhaps any disappointment around that will be mitigated by the quantity of cats.
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