Hiatus

Laura and I are heading to the USA tomorrow (hooray!), so no entries for a little while.

Stuff & Nonsense

As poor Laura lurches from deadline to deadline (AHRC, Uni funding application, comp exam, two marking deadlines), I'm afraid you're stuck with me filling in for now with bits of silliness. As silliness goes however, the following ranks very highly, providing a good dose of unexpected Monday morning laughs.



I'd also like to throw in a link to something Richard recently recommended (thanks Richard!). This is an excellent site featuring audio and video lectures from all kinds of fascinating intellectuals on a fantastically diverse range of topics. My favourite so far - I couldn't stop downloading these yesterday - is the charming Bill Bryson on A Short History of Nearly Everything.

Happy Bank Holiday, enjoy.

Spring & Scandal

Sheffield - like many places - is awash with all kinds of beautiful blossom. This view is on our walk to work each day along (ironically enough) Winter Street:




To our great surprise, Sheffield is also apparently awash with cannabis, or at least, our little corner of it is. The innocuous looking house pictured below is just across the street from us (this was taken from our upstairs bedroom window). On returning late from our friends' house last night we discovered three police cars and a substantial police van on Raven Road. There was a fair bit of activity, but no clear reason why. This morning, officers from South Yorkshire police have been removing plants, tubs of fertiliser, heat lamps, small humidifiers and all the gubbins associated with a cannabis factory from the house and dumping them in a skip (where they proceeded to smash them all up with a sledgehammer!). And all of us had absolutely no idea (honest guv!).