First signs of spring in the garden

Today is my viva anniversary. 16 years ago I left my then 2 months old baby to spend two hours defending the work I had spent 4 years writing. Here he is celebrating.

Surely this is not the most comfortable position #researchdog

Christmas at our house is signalled every year by the smell of the melomakarona baking. These Greek Christmas biscuits are a labour of love; they always make me slow down and savour the time I spent making them.

Now we are getting there !

Quite excited about this workshop tomorrow. I will be talking about an attempt to establish a British Institute of Archaeology in Turkey in the 1930s as part of the Scottish excavation of the Great Palace of Byzantine Emperors.

A fleeting visit to London to attend an ArtUK roundtable discussion at the Royal Academy on their new project The Superpower of Looking, which aims to enhance visual literacy skills at primary schools. I had the pleasure to share the table and ideas with artists such as Cornelia Parker.

First weekend this semester that I feel I don't need to work to catch up with everything so I spent a nice lazy morning walking around town and picking these books to bring home and read. It feels such a luxury!

Took the students to Edinburgh today and spent some time in the portrait gallery looking closely at two of my favourite paintings by Pietro Fabris (Neapolitan interiors, Grand Tour, fencing, concerts, antiquities, pottery...)

I think I enjoyed the Thyssen-Bornemisza more than any other one in Madrid

Escaped Scotland this week for a trip to Madrid. So much art