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Dinner purgatory

We’ve all been there– there’s a snazzy new restaurant in town. You read about it in just about every newspaper and blog. You’ve finally managed to snag a table at 5.30pm (because ‘Madam we have no tables free after 6pm until the next millennium’). You can’t search the menu online because the dishes are prepared […]

Dr Strangelove lives

Having survived what can only be described as a perfectly ghastly week which was made bearable by the lovely people I work with, Saturday has arrived like a beacon in the darkness. It’s cold outside, and the world is apparently going to hell in a handbasket…again. I thought I would cheer you all up by […]

Roll Call

It’s been the usual rainy bank holiday weekend, quelle surprise. If we actually had nice bank holiday weather, the whole country would be in a state of shock. Good to know the national equilibrium has been maintained.  I decided to count my blessings instead, and say a big thank you to people who have been […]

Albanian wisdom

  Sorry I’ve been AWOL for a while. I’m knee-deep in organic chemistry at the moment, working on new formulations. It’s actually quite good fun;I love organic chemistry. I’m very tempted to fill this blog with equations just so you can see how elegant chemistry is. Instead, I’m posting some images of equally elegant products […]

Art & Science

  I like Banksy; his art makes me think and sometimes it makes me laugh.I was reading about his latest art exhibition Dismaland which is currently set up as a  ‘Bemusement ‘ park in Weston-super-Mare. Comedy gold on one hand, philosophical treatise on the other. It led me to consider why it is I think […]