Sep 29, 2005
Being quite on the blog usually means one of two things: either I am very down and don’t want to write anything, or I am extraordinarily busy. Fortunately, it is the latter and in the last week or so I managed to spent a good deal of my spare time down the...
Sep 19, 2005
You know that old caberet routine where a guy in a tux tries to spin loads of plates on rods? He has to keep checking them all and giving each one a wee spin to keep them all going and stop them from falling off and breaking. Last week’s teaching at Brookes has...
Sep 10, 2005
This week i moved out of student halls and into my new room in a house share with Rachel and Michael. Rachel is the rowing correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and has been very welcoming to me as I settle in. I have done a fair bit of socialising of late and it is...
Sep 6, 2005
Another quickie to say that the new intake of foundation students are here at Brookes. 60 of them so far and so far it has been us talking at them with all the induction stuff and endless bureaucracy. We take them to London tomorrow and I am also finally moving into a...