When at Cosener’s… getting ready for my talk at the Winter Crystallography Meeting tomorrow where I’ll be talking about vibe coding and how we trust anything in the age of AI

Local field next to my house looks well. Think Herbie approves

Decide to give it another go. First word: FEET.

Not in the list again. Sigh

Testing last night’s creation, hedgerow jelly. Featuring foraged elderberries, sloes and blackberries. It’s even better than the cherry plum chutney!

Think I’m done with the @theguardian.com word wheel daily puzzles when today’s word list doesn’t include LICE or MICE.

Saw some nice fruit growing by the local field where I walk Herbie.

Made cherry plum chutney, delicious

Excited to be keeping my hand in in the lab, making some coin cells myself for the first time in a while…

Think it’s fair to say that Sheffield City Council have utterly broken the traffic system in the city now. Every trip is a disaster forced onto the same handful of roads through the city

My paper

Hello Katty

Do I get a badge or a sticker?

I didn’t know what a zine was so I signed up for a workshop to learn something new. Here is my part finished zine on the fellowship proposal due in next week!

Only one thing to do after a hard day reviewing proposals at the ISIS Facility Access Panel

Point out that people really should justify better to a lay audience why there specific samples are interesting and explain why they need this experiment on this instrument for this amount of time.

Sleep Token were awe inspiring

Would prefer if I didn’t feel so rough but all ready for Sleep Token at Leeds arena

So in summary - it wasn’t just a long puddle.

I did indeed cycle through 10 inch deep water for about 30 metres 🤣

I know some of you don’t approve of Halloween decorations but here’s a skull I painted

All the weights please