Show time
Maestro to the pit; actors to their places; its time to raise the curtain. Sure, that might be happening over at the Crescent Theatre with their latest production, but I am talking about mine: I am ready to collect data. …
Blog blockage
In which the joy of polarized light microscopy is alloyed by recognizing a blue big blistering blunder
Sky pilot
I tell the tale of a preliminary, or pilot, experiment. The ‘sky’ comes in as I spend time looking out the window from my office. Sea too.
Number weaving
In which the week’s progress is recounted and as a bonus I invent a good term for calesthenics with numbers.
Bloggery
Blogging returns after a 3 month hiatus with a brief account of what happens to cell walls when cells are ground up.
A wee dram of data
What do you call a woman who drinks too much? … … A dram queen. OK ok, sorry, couldn’t resist, on with the tales of lab dram. This week, I slipped the traces of the computer and pulled the lab…
Measure for measure
This week, I have been measuring. This sounds as though I have been holding up a ruler to measure how high my plants have grown, or perhaps putting a dozen leaves on a balance. But no, I am using a…