On the northern hemisphere

Despite very little free time, Cambridge was on my todo list.There is a good university there and narrowboats. Any one of these is a good reason to visit. That's why I went there Saturday afternoon. To make it into a semi-business trip I contacted Gábor, a physicist. They now have  a summer school…

After 10 days, Thursday morning was the first sunny one. Not  a cloud in sight at least until 10am. Then a fruity design breakfast. After that nothing bloggable happened, as we just worked all day. Except on Friday afternoon I finally met Steve, whose life is getting quite busy, a baby is…

For Wednesday Paolo suggested to go to his office at LSE, this coincided with Chrystopher's meditation seminar, so we went to London today. Work in Hatfield in the morning, then work in London (after an enormous lunch again). We ended up in Costa. Still titled 'Scientists in cafe'   Then we had a…

I do coding here in Chrystopher's office all day. Yes, the invariant element is the bookshelf. Very nice environment, while waiting for some calculation, just scanning through the titles. Then I go home and continue working in Lis' living room, also full with books. But to keep sanity and health…

While I work a lot it is not that I am socially deprived. With Lis, every evening we have candle-lit dinner, red wine and long conversations. But on Saturday evening the usual set of friends came and we had fondue with all the usual 'whose bit is this?', 'Ooops, I dropped the sausage ..' not the…

I sold my boat almost 2 years ago, but recently received a product recall of a circuit breaker that was probably built into the boat at some point. What a perfect excuse to go to the cut again. Unfortunately the Cow Roast marina is under new management so they have no records available. But once…

I planned this shopping long time ago. I found shopping clothes in Australia not as straightforward and lot more expensive than in the UK. Here I just walked in and bought what I needed (mainly underpants) in a few minutes time. Well, I bought wool socks. Not that I need them, but I fell in love…

Here is the aforementioned water gun. Its range is 10 meters! However, I was misinformed. This is an anti-cat defense weapon. The squirrels only eat the seeds (and pay the price for the food with entertaining acrobatic tricks), but cats eat the birds themselves. And the super-expensive ultrasound…