Margot's Blog

In the previous blog post I mentioned that being a scientist means flying ruthlessly across the globe. And I was hardly exaggerating. I was ...

“An excellent, practical and reassuring guidebook to the most important issue on everybody’s to-do list this year. Why not buy a few and dis...

When I write this, my blog has 39 posts with the label “caving”. Only 19 with the label “science”. And of these 19, only 11 deal with the jo...

I thought I'd get that seatpost out in a few hours. I was wrong! After day #1 I was left with a seatpost of which two 90 degree sections...

Mark, one of the Cornish nutters, came abseiling down, and landed with unprecedented elegance. That inspired us to come up with the infallib...

On Monday we have phunch. Physical lunch. And lunch tends to be physical, but in this context the adjective is used in the sense of "pe...

It's autumn! The leaves have pretty colours and the weather is often bleak. Time for many mines to get flooded. We wanted to do a few of...