Late afternoon, Monday 7th July

Well, Matt is nearing the end of his first work experience day. This afternoon, he has started making a database for our 4th year class so that the 4th Year co-ordinator can call up performance details of the cohort and see graphically how their overall marks have varied over their first 3 years.

Tomorrow will take us into the lab - we're going to set up the Monolayer Eating experiment and we might also do a bit of optical microscopy to let him see small stuff! Buying a tripod tonight from the shop I hate most in all the world, Argos, for the film-making tomorrow. I hate it because the snob in me recoils from coming into contact with the entire cross-section of humanity when purchasing anything from its premises! I never used to be a snob, but years of watching Britain erode into a state which gives nearly all of my hard-earned tax to people who have often never done a hard-day's work in their lives, turns you towards the right-wing! Sorry, over-political, calm down boy, take it easy! That's it until tomorrow. hasta manana amigos.