Slightly surreal experience of seeing one of your old university's through your off springs eyes - trying not to keep on saying that's where I...too much!

And with perfect timing my hands have decided to have an arthritis flare... 5 sets of marking and dissertations due in over next 5 weeks. Thank god Turnitin lets me correct spellings relatively easily as my typing is crap at the moment.

So one of headlight bulbs needs replacing. Having just had expensive repair definitely a diy job. Order bulb, delayed but turned up late Saturday. Decide to replace Sunday in light. Get old bulb odd, thank god for small hands, go to get new bulb....they've sent wrong size 1/2

Leaving the house at 7am for journey to work and it's light and sunny - so much more positive.

I currently have two fully-funded PhD opportunities in my lab - both providing a chance to work on the incredible LEAF data set that we have been collecting the last couple of years (220 children followed longitudinally from 10-30 months on measures of attention and early EF). Please share!

Reminder to self, make sure fingers completely dry when grabbing turmeric pills from sachet. Now look like I have a 40-a-day habit.

Sometimes you just have to appreciate the view.

Sitting in my oldish, poorly insulated house in UK under a big blanket and contemplating putting gloves on to turn pages of my book.... roll on spring....

Late afternoon sun.

Actually reading a non work book thanks to secret santa from @bertsbooks.bsky.social and trying not to give into temptation to do some marking..

So, everyone who is awake in house is happy. Me as shop arrived early so free to start a new book, dogs as only substitution was dog biscuits - usual ones swapped for massive ones that are too solid for me to snap in half!

Best start to the day, coffee and dog hot water bottle.

12 ✨paid✨ PhD positions in environmental humanities - co/organised by Uni Augsburg and LMU. I’m also an affiliate there - check out the call: rethinking-environment-idk.de

4 and a half hours of motorway driving after work is not the best way to start a weekend but on the upside means oldest is now home for a couple of days before I rinse and repeat all that driving again on Sunday.

Got called out at work yesterday by slightly younger staff member while chatting about sleeping aids. Claims it's like working in an old folks home.....her day will come.

Apart from a couple of references, I seem to have hit the end of my to-do list, unusual times.

Amazing skies this morning.

Autumn definitely arrived