We were barely back from Berlin before himself had to get ready for a three week work trip to the USA, and me for a 10-day one back to Dublin. Thanks to everyone who sent Dad good wishes for his surgery, it all seems to have gone perfectly and fingers crossed his vision will improve before the end of the year as the corneal graft settles in.
Apart from juggling the flood of work that predictably came in just when I couldn't take it on, I've wandered far, far outside my comfort zone with the amazing Experimental Genome Science course that I found after someone pointed me at the Writing for the Sciences course on the same site (Coursera). The courses are all free, you just need to put in the time and do the assignments. Experimental Genome Science is aimed at entry-level graduate students in genetics, which I am not, so I'm not sure if I'll make it all the way through but so far it is fascinating if an awful lot of hard work. The Writing for the Sciences course is much more my speed and I'm enjoying it immensely, especially the tips on writing and revising.
And thinking ahead - it feels like the end of the year already - a search for images to use for my Japanese New Year cards led me (in a rather roundabout way) to the very lovely LittleLion Studio. Not that any of their images are suitable for the cards, but I just love them to bits.
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