Ten years ago today, my aunt mentioned in the last post, died. Fuck Cancer.
Author Archives: David
30 years.
Thirty years and 7 hours ago I took 20p and went to a phone box that no longer exists to call an aunt who is no longer alive to tell her that her mother was very ill. My grandmother, Flo, died about an hour after my aunt, Michelle, arrived. The early 1990s were a strange …
Merry Christmas
A saved image from a tweet from a screenshot of a message of a photo taken of the back of the camera I took the original photo on.
Grants
An annoying part of my job is trying to convince people to give me money to do the things I’m doing anyway. We’re graded in effect by how much we spend, if we do cheap science with the only spend being on consumable items we are graded poorly. Most of the science I do is …
Cold
It was going to to happen sooner or later, my good luck backed by distance, masks and hygiene couldn’t last forever. I’ve got a cold.I’m not sure where or how I contracted it, which is annoying as that lapse in my defences could have let in something rather more nasty. The cold came mid week …