I have a habit of wanting to learn how to do everything, so I’m no stranger to feeling a bit out of my depth. It’s a pretty familiar feeling – to the extent that I’m resigned to a background level of “huh?” Perhaps because of that, it takes a lot to really stress me out […]
Whoops, I missed Fishy Friday last week. So much for establishing a regular routine. In my defence, I was not quite compos mentis, having had to wake up at 3.30am two days running in the name of Science. On the second day (Friday), the weather had other ideas so the go-go-Lucozade stash went untouched and […]
It’s been a while since I’ve been to sea on a survey, but it looks as though tomorrow and Friday I’ll be on a fishing boat doing some video surveys. It’s essentially a training/supervisory gig, working with another scientist and a local fishing crew to see how feasible it might be for them to do […]
In a concerted effort to talk more about one of my main areas of work, I’ve decided to do a weekly blog dedicated to FISH! It might be fisheries biology, management of stocks, how to survey cockles, sustainability, a person or book, or issues in the news: anything, really, that is either topical or currently […]
I’ve been trying to decide whether or not to import old posts on one or more of the past blogs I’ve kept (still undecided), and in the process have been re-reading some of the things that preoccupied me a few years ago. It’s fascinating and weird. I suppose writing blog posts has always been a […]
So here’s the thing. Although I more or less make a living doing other things, a great deal of my time and energy is directed at making music. At this time of year, it’s the start of the concert season and so in addition to about three recent choral concerts and another two next week, […]
Here’s a recipe of my own devising. I’ve called it “Accidental pasta bake” because it just ended up as one, having originally been destined to be a regular pasta with sauce. It sort of evolved as I kept thinking of things I had in the freezer and cupboards, so that although I’d envisaged it as […]
I’m trying to collect my thoughts on the issues surrounding the debate over casting of the RSC’s The Orphan of Zhao. I think I need a bit more musing-time, but meanwhile here are some links to blogs and discussion relating both directly to the RSC/Zhao case, and to similar experiences elsewhere. To be continued! Main […]
My brain’s been on overdrive today, so as a consequence everything is a bit fuzzy, and whizzy. And strangely stripy. It may be all the sugar I’ve been eating – pretty much to the exclusion of all proper food. Not to be recommended (often). I wanted to put as a sort of placemarker, so I […]
So, this weekend was a pretty full one and a schizophrenic one at that, with adrenaline-pumped highs fuelled both by petrol and music, and one goodbye. I spent quite a lot of it stretching my vocal chords: singing in a backing choir (made up of a bunch of us from KLFC) for boyband Blake, and […]