Part of the building conversion work here a couple of years back resulted in the placing of a unisex convenience at the top of the stairs leading to the corridor […]

On behalf of the People’s Front of the Laboratory (or is that the Laboratory People’s Front?), I reproduce here the lovely response I had recently to a PCR whinge of […]

If you think what goes on politically and religiously and scientific-educationally in the USA has no bearing anywhere else, then I’d like a hit of whatever it is you’re taking. […]

It piles up again: passaging cultures and workload is suddenly multiplied, particularly when the last remaining Lab Manager / Technician is about to go on holiday; and the PCRs are […]

Today is a significant day. I made a decision a while back to remain in Scumsville based on many reasons – including an element of unreason. But after living a […]

Last week, I got off my fat one, ferried it elsewhere, and sat back on it in my favourite cinema seat, and, with a (plastic) ‘glass’ of Rioja and sharing […]

I’ve been watching too much TV lately: the lazy consequence of my tardy conversion from five channel analogue philistinism to willpower-sapping digital Freeview, which, despite the relative proportion of dross […]

There is no such thing as perfect democracy; particularly where elected public servants (have to?) continue to default-ly kowtow to anachronistic, irrelevant taxpayer-burdening institutions. I often wonder where some politicians […]