Margot's Blog

Now that is a cryptic blogpost title. And it's not going to get much clearer! It's what I wrote on my hand previous night. It made s...

I already mentioned once that if you’re a caver, and people hear of that, they tend to react with something like “rather you than me”. Somet...

Half the UK has stopped functioning! Up to a foot of snow has fallen, causing airports, schools and roads to be closed, cars to crash, train...

"You should really go there, it'll be good for you!" Some people in the caving club know I'm afraid of traverses. I faced ...

I can do science, me! One of the staff members of the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) lab had a Brainiac button with that text. Nerd terr...

In Norway I had a colleague who would go orienteering. The idea is that people give you a map with certain points indicated, and you have to...

"Happy thanksgiving!" she said, when she gave me a hug. It was clear that for her this was quite a normal thing to say (on this da...