Eat sleep freeze repeat - a story of a year as a doctor in Antarctica. Dr Hawker is spending a year at Casey Station in Antarctica. The blog starts last December when she boarded the ship to travel down, and details life on the base, including how they entertain themselves when the weather is too …
It’s National Science Week!
Let me begin by saying that I think that for small people, every week is science week. Dumping water out of the bath on to the floor for the thousandth time to check that water still goes down. Throwing all their rice from their dinner in the air to see what happens. Discussing why does …
Reading the manual
I was raised in a household that didn't read manuals or instructions. You figured stuff out by having intuitive engineering capabilities, pushing a lot of buttons, with screw drivers, by asking everyone else in the family for help, or if you ready to admit failure and that you couldn't problem solve, then read the instructions. …
Bedtime to the tune of American Pie
When I have to do bedtime (my husband usually does it), I sometimes write poetry or haiku in my mind to stop noticing how much time I've been trapped in a dark room waiting for someone who hates sleep to fall asleep. Tonight's effort is set to the tune of American Pie. There are too many …
Behind the scenes
I've been making changes here - switching some things around, changing others. If you read through an RSS reader, nothing will be different. I've decided to get back into the website updating swing of things, and learn how to properly blog in this age of social media, and not be blogging like it's 1999 (a …
Mumma, Did You Know? 