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2025-05-04 01:34 pm

1SE for April 2025



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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2025-04-01 09:32 am

1SE for March 2025



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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2025-03-11 09:40 am
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Random cat photo

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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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2025-03-02 07:38 pm

1SE for February 2025



A short but busy month, with trips to Wales and the USA. My face makes an appearance in there.
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2025-02-01 01:46 pm

1SE for January 2025



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.
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2025-01-13 10:41 pm

The Friday Five on a Monday

  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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2025-01-01 09:21 pm

1SE for December 2024



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

Happy New Year!
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2024-11-30 10:47 pm

1SE for November 2024



I went to Sweden, but even so there are still a good number of cat videos in here.
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2024-11-03 03:45 pm

1SE for October 2024



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.
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2024-10-02 10:33 pm

1SE for September 2024



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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2024-08-31 06:29 pm

1SE for August 2024



This 1SE starts off in California, then goes back home (and to work), has a jaunt to Wales for some surfing and paddle-boarding, and ends up back home again. Also, spot the new Birkenstocks!
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2024-08-19 07:59 am
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The respect he has for me is awesome.



I turned my back to pick up the clothes to put into Eldest’s jumper-and-leggings drawer, and was treated to this fantastic 21-second display of total disdain upon my return. Thank you for putting me in my place, cat.
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2024-08-01 04:53 am

1SE for July 2024



I don't entirely understand how this year is passing so quickly, but it's time for the monthly 1SE video again already. We're on holiday now until 10th August.
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2024-07-01 09:42 pm

1SE for June 2024



Somehow I have failed to post since 10th June, despite having posts written after the last weekly roundup. Life has been a bit stressful lately for a number of reasons but it is getting a little better now. The summer holidays are less than a month away, for both the children and for us.
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2024-06-08 10:24 pm

1SE for May 2024



Wow, I forgot to post this for a long time. I blame the excessive work-related travel (the Canaries, India) followed by interviews, a two-day workshop, and marking.
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2024-05-05 08:39 pm

1SE for April 2024



April has the usual dose of cats and children, plus a glimpse of the new car (Bogdan the Duster) and a conference in Vienna.
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2024-04-01 06:26 pm

1SE for March 2024



As usual, the cats feature heavily. Not much travel in this one except at the very end. One big highlight for me is my masters students disassembling and re-assembling a sounding rocket experiment in the CubeSat facility.
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2024-03-10 02:46 pm

1SE for February 2024



I made my 1SE for February and then forgot to post it here, although I did circulate to friends and family. Includes my trip to the USA to see my parents and other relatives, a weekend in Wales and a couple of trips to London and Birmingham, as well the usual cats and children. Watching this, last month looks a lot calmer than it was to live through.
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2024-02-04 06:39 am

1SE for January 2024



I made this and then forgot to post it. Features a lot of canal walks and cats.
It's taken me more than an hour to catch up with four days of entries from you all, across DW and LJ. I'm definitely not complaining. I love spending time here reading. It certainly feels more rewarding than, say, trawling through FB trying to find actual updates from friends in between relentless adverts and algorithm-generated memes.
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2024-01-09 10:51 pm
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Birthday boys

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Astro and Comet are 1 year old today. They're now asleep on their favourite human's bed (Humuhumu).