Another early start this morning to meet the door installation guy - third time lucky! Haven’t heard any bad news so I presume it all went ok. Jan took the kitties into the vets for their mutual castration, along with Bootsy’s x rays to check how the broken pelvis healing is coming along. Not before […]

Researchers have used genetic linkage analysis to show a 95% probability that a particular region on chromosome four correlates to long lifespan in humans. Importantly this region appears to have a strong influence on the rate of ageing. Read about it at: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 91201. Good news for me as all my grandparents bar one are […]

A team of Japanese engineers has created the smallest statue ever. A three-dimensional bull the size of a red blood cell has been etched in plastic by engineers at Osaka University in Japan.
Jan’s at home today having a busy one with the plumber, the kitchen guy and the termite guy all turning up. Home […]

Had an eventful weekend - went to our first birthing class on Saturday (we are doing 2 Saturdays in a row from 9:30am to 3:30pm). It was fascinating. Saw a couple of birth videos and all the strange implements that they use up in the labour ward like the epidural tube, the forcerps, the vacuum […]