Squatters in the Particle Separation Room,

My first go at lab demonstrating to the First Year undergraduates and American exchange students was okay; I only told someone the wrong thing once. At times, it’s difficult to watch some of the practices that are adopted. I like laboratories to be as safe and as clean as possible, implementing my own standards - gained from industry - would severely inhibit students trying to attain results in restricted time with limited equipment. I suppose we were all learning together, hopefully I can be of more use next week.

More importantly, I saw a kingfisher on Sunday. I can’t remember having seen one before. I only remembered to look up what the sparkly blue bird I saw zipping down the river was this evening. It’s Autumn Watch month after all.