Bobby comes to stay

I have a 2 year old. She is 2. she can’t really talk properly yet. She has no empathy. She has no attention span. I’ve heard of the school hamster. Teaches responsibility, empathy etc to kids. Makes sense I guess. But why did I get giving a teddy bear to look after by her nursery. [...]

buggybikes

When I was in Denmark I saw these bikes with the childrens trailer up front rather than behind. I thought that was cool. They were originally invented in Christiania, because there is a car ban there and the people who lived there had to get their fuel etc to their houses somehow, so they invented [...]

it’s not what but who

Trying to find a jib in academia is great fun.  Especially in my rather small field. There are some on the go apparently, but they are not advertised. I went to a conference and listened to rumours, that’s how you find jobs now, ‘oh, so and so has just set up, they are looking for [...]

The end of the world!

Imagine the scene, after a long day you get home and are going to have pasta for dinner, but then it ends up all over the floor, you clean it up and go to the fridge, see a yoghurt and think, I want that. Only to open it and find out it’s the kind with [...]