She salutes

Most awesome birthday/thesis submitting cake - the Spider Queen Goddess of the Underworld! Nice one, Lizzie!

Vanilla Fudge Cafe hot chocolates!

Khyber Pass night!

Celebrating good thesis news all round (and missing Amie...)

The High Table Experience

There was no way I was going to choose one photo from Monday evening's trip to Christ Church, so...

Lewis Carol's rabbit that we poddled up to the Harry Potter dining room:

Sadly, Trevor the butler would have told me off had I taken pictures during dinner, so there are none :(

Selection of drinks in the SCR afterwards. All have to be signed off on the sheet, including the Robinson's orange squash:

Somewhat atypical Oxford academics chatting in the SCR. I told them to look like they were having an intelligent conversation:

Henna

Normal evening in Oxford.

Special delivery from Americaland! Thanks, Aleithia!

Freedom from the thesis means reading for pleasure may become possible. Cue Lizzie and her pile of books she's been saving for this very moment!

Office Monday

What I surround myself with in the office

Tanja's 30th!

Tanja turned 30 on Friday, which makes her much older than me.

Brownies Sunday

More yum!

Gatecrasher Saturday

Yum!

Hello Naomi!

Today's adventure was a trip to Loughborough to meet (and cuddle lots) 5-day-old Naomi, and resulted in another very understandable inability to choose just one photo...