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London Cabaret Awards – A Personal Fiasco but an Entertainment Triumph
“Ooh you all look like you’ve been dipped in glue and rolled around a vintage clothing store!” Never was a truer word spoken than by compere Jamie Anderson, opening the inaugural London Cabaret Awards...
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Hobbing and Nobbing with Volcanoes and Fish
Last night it was my pleasure to attend the Oxford Alumni Society Professional Networking Event at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London. Just a week on from my disastrous visit to the London...
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Caught in the Act: the Origin of Sex in the Fossil Record
Sex. Doing the dirty. A bit of the old in and out. Making teenage boys giggle and girls blush since the beginning of time. Or was it? Has sex always been around? If not, who ever thought that an...
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Moving Out and Moving On
Not enough posts from me in the last month or so. Well, none at all. But I do have the best excuse of all. Try writing a 360 page thesis, and a 600 page atlas in a month, and then see how motivated...
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Radcliffe Camera in Pen and Ink – A tribute…
… to the last eight years of my life. And it has taken me nearly a year to get round to finishing it, what with that pesky thesis getting in the way. Anyway, in the vacuum-like calm of the...
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Artist spotlight – Marie Robinson
So I’m meant to start travelling this evening, and haven’t thought about packing yet, so what better way to distract myself/everyone else, than to draw your attention to some of the most awesome...
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A Fortnight in ‘Frisco
Well, so much for keeping a regular travel blog. Little did I realise, but travelling half way across the world to an entirely new place, with an entirely new group of people, and entirely new kind of...
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F*ck yes! Curiosity lands on Mars!
It was spectacularly ambitious and terrifying complicated, but at 10:31pm Pacific time, the MSL rover, Curiosity, touched down softly on the surface of Mars, and sent back its first thumbnail image of...
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I’m not one to boast but…
…I’m a Doctor! Don’t worry, not a useful one, unless you want someone to look over your ancient fossils (not your grandmother). On Monday I passed my viva voce, a three hour examination that marked...
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Some Saucy Studies
The science making the news this weeks has taken a sexy turn, with some eyebrow raising complimentary studies, and something else maybe a little more contradictory. Firstly, you’ll all be glad to hear...
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Sketches from Hastings
I’ve lived in Hastings for nearly eight months now, and I am still continually struck by how beautiful it can be. Travelling around, and coming home, I welcome the sight of the sea, and the rise and...
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My Apple Watch: First Impressions
I am a very lucky young lady. I have a fiance who loves to cater to my whim and desire, and so when he found me drooling over the Apple watch on launch day, it was only a matter of time before he got...
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Hello! As you might have guessed from the three-year hitaus in posts on this page, it is no longer active. I’m leaving it here so that you can still read old posts, but for new updates and up to date...
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