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Shopping for students
I’m doing a weekly shop at Sainsbury’s today. I’ve got the basics in my online basket and I’m trying to think like a student. I’m guessing more alcohol, less food. I should probably take out the...
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Tick Tock
You’ve looked at your watch about five times in the past hour. It’s hot and stuffy and the windows have that horrible warm-room condensation they get which leaves you boiling indoors but needing at...
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P is for Publishing
In an earlier post, I mentioned the KTP Training and Development budget which encourages Associates to develop their skills and knowledge to help them now as well as post-KTP. With June 2012 marking...
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Shiny new buildings and spring cleans
Construction of our Field Research Facility. Photograph courtesy of Rachael Tanner (RHS) Over the last five months, we’ve all been eagerly watching as our Science Field Research Facility (FRF)...
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Croeso i Gymru
The title is Welsh – not, as some of you may have wondered, a case of too many biscuit crumbs in the keyboard, and it reads ‘Welcome to Wales’. A handful of the Science Department drove past this...
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In my early (and I stress early) high school years, the girls could be split into one of two camps- the ‘Take That’ fan club or the ‘Backstreet Boys’ one. I clearly remember arriving at school on the...
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Filling the toolkit
If I had a toolbox (and let’s face it- I wouldn’t), it wouldn’t be full of tools. I’d probably use it to store stationary, or those odds and ends I refuse to throw away just in case I find a use for...
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Networking, nibbles and a new prospectus
RHS Science hosted its second annual PhD symposium in November. An opportunity to develop our growing PhD community- and our links with new and existing collaborative research partners, the event gets...
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Come Dine With Me, Sunday afternoons and project management workshops
Discussing Project Management best practice within RHS Science I am a great fan of the TV show ‘Come Dine with me’. For those of you who actually have stuff to do on a Sunday afternoon, the basic...
View ArticleSad endings, Mary Poppins and shiny things
Whether it’s dropping off the keys to my rented damp-ridden, avocado-bathroom-suite-complete-with-kitchen-cupboard-over-the-bathtub flat in Bracknell, leaving my Citroen Saxo with neon yellow and grey...
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