this is my house and there are certain rules about snakes and dismemberment

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Happiness is being able to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and not having to take your keys with you.
Happiness is being able to leave your washing up on the draining board to drain before it gets put away.
Happiness is a double bed *1*
Happiness, in general, is being [...]

where you are mentally does not have to be where you are geographically

Cas is currently though that smilie doesn’t do justice to the sheer quantity of bone-deep exhaustion I am currently experiencing.
Hello everybody!
If you keep up with Moose’s blog, you will be aware that we moved into our shiny new flat this weekend. If you don’t keep up with Moose’s blog, why not, and you might [...]

time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug

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Today is a sad day here in Southampton, for Jeff has left us, to return back to the sprawling sprawl that is Greater London. The end of the year is here for us academics, and because the uni accommodation office couldn’t organize the proverbial, we are all being kicked out of our [...]

a phd candidate on the loose

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At the request of The Brainy Snail, here’s another blog post.*1*. Everyone be nice to The Brainy Snail; she is a little unsure about this whole blogging topic. Apparently mine is the first blog she has been brave enough to read! I am honoured, though not totally sure if starting with me [...]

noah’s ark is a problem

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Firstly, thank you everyone for your lovely birthday wishes. They really made me smile on a day not normally known for it’s smile-worthyness.
Back to our regularly scheduled programming -
I have been remiss in my recent blogging, letting the Random folder once more reach dangerous levels of obesity. So, without further-ado, here [...]

if that doesn’t work i’m moving on to molotov cocktails

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WARNING: the following post was written under influence of jaffa cakes, extreme stress, tiredness, and more cups of tea than are probably healthy.
A housekeeping post before I get back to the business of serious blogging sometime later in the millennium.
People just keep on commenting. Really, I hadn’t realised how much it was [...]

the straight to your heart times

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Short one today.
I figure that your true friends are the people you never appreciate enough on a day to day basis, then they go and do something which just reminds you why they are special in the first place.
The kind of thing I am talking about - coming home and finding [...]

at night, the ice weasels come

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I give up.
It’s been a long relationship for me.
Nearly six months of total fidelity.
I only strayed once, and that was a misguided drunken fling, and I was forgiven.
But things have been rocky for a while now, and the time has come to face facts and admit that we have grown apart.
We have [...]

two corpses in three hours, i mean that’s unusual right?

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Well you could knock me down with a feather. It would have to be a pretty hefty feather, because I am no light weight, but I am sure, given the appropriate plumage and enough force, I could be sent arse-over-tip.
Why, do I hear you cry, am I currently so easy to upend? [...]

i’d rather be anything but ordinary

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Just in case you were under any doubt as to my geek credentials, the following is a common sight in the lab. (Cameraphones are great!)

Tilly on the left, Jeff on the right. (Click on the pic to see notes).
And yes, we do crack GIS and computing jokes when we’re in the pub [...]