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.

A short but busy month, with trips to Wales and the USA. My face makes an appearance in there.

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

Happy New Year!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

And that's a wrap! A project I managed to keep up for 365 days? I'll take it. This month features a lot of cats, but also rare appearances by my face and my toes (not at the same time).

Reviewing my year on DW - and to a patchier extent, LJ, because I forget to cross-post manually - I see I managed regular posting for the first six months, semi-regular in the subsequent four months, and shockingly little in November and December. I expect this to be a recurring theme next year, but am resolved at least to start as I mean to continue, and resume regular posting in 2024.

I'm off to a NYE party as the designated driver, a role I find myself happy to fill with increasing frequency. I hope whatever you have planned allows you to welcome the new year in your preferred manner.

Lots of cats and kids, and a quick trip to Harwell. You can tell it's school / term time.

I had forgotten this month started with me getting locked in the downstairs bathroom just before we were about to leave for school. Humuhumu had to rescue me with the help of a Leatherman and instructions delivered over video call by her dad. She was quite proud of herself, and rightfully so.