Margot's Blog

So far I'd come away lightly. It couldn't last. I had spent pretty much the entire summer surrounded by written material from which ...

I was starting to feel like a lecturer! Spending lots of time in the office, preparing lectures, and not going to the lab. At all. But now t...

Back in my Plymouth days, which are starting to feel a bit distant, I liked exploring the surroundings by running races. There always were p...

How many times have I said "six weeks at sea" in my recent blog posts? Enough to make people wince, I think. But it's a hard t...

On Monday evening I got back home after 6 weeks at sea . By the end of the week, I had to have submitted the Iceland paper . Which should be...

After three weeks at sea I was glad to step on land again . There's rock there, and trees! So after three more weeks at sea, I felt a...

For six weeks you work your 12 hour shifts in the middle of the night. And then, one day, suddenly it’s over. We did our last shift up ...