Spent the day at the Progressive Palaeontology conference at the National Oceanographic Centre at Southampton University drawing comics of the talks and posters. Final versions of the comics are posted here

Watching a talks by Mike Buckley and Phil Manning at a Pint of Science night

Finished reading Saturn over the water by J.B. Priestly

Today I experienced actual jaw dropping amazement when it was announced that I had won our faculty poetry competition for my version of I've got a little list from the Mikado.

Finished reading Regeneration by Pat Barker

Why is it that when you are trying to remember something all that comes to mind are all the other useless facts you know?

Today I attended a lunchtime concert, and one of the pieces can only be described as the sounds made by a flowerpot man terminally ill with oesophageal cancer being brought to orgasm.