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Date: 11 August 2005 14:02:41
Normally if I work at home either Friday or Monday it feels like years since I've been in the office, I have loads of post etc. This week the builders are still banging in the same bits in the corridor and I had hardly any post - particularly not exciting grant-related news which I am waiting for. But it's the summer, everything has ground to a halt. Just as well really, as I have quite a bit to do and still feel a bit whacked and sniffly.
I'm giving a talk at a conference on Down Syndrome, that is, the talk isn't on DS because I know next to nothing on it, but the conference is. I decided to try and educate myself yesterday: there's a lot of interesting stuff here. Having done a lot of research in related areas, I'm hopefully going to start doing some research on this, and we've had a couple of kids in for testing who have DS. One of them was also called Katie and she's my favourite...
My beloved tomato plants are getting more and more flowers, but my nasturtiums have loads of caterpillars! I looked it up online and apparently they are very prone to them, and you just have to put up with it and plant them as sacrifices to caterpillars so your other plants won't get affected. I might not bother planting nasturtiums next year (I've used up the packet of seed I had, anyway) but they keep self-seeding so I may get them even if I don't. Along with lots of horrid black caterpillars.