I can't blog every day AND come up with bloody titles

Woohoo I finished the scarf!!! It was a good knitting session with only one attendee abstaining from the knitting which is rare. We had cookies and popcorn and tea. Four neuroscientists sat in my lounge, which was festooned with balls of wool, drinking tea and chatting about how we wish we'd done maths PhDs. We ROCK.

So yes, Stu has a scarf. As I said to Barb, it's pretty short but it'll go round his neck and therefore fits the criteria for a scarf. He's in Paris at the moment but maybe he'll model it on his return. I started a pepto-bismol pink scarf. With the small amount of knitting that got done in between the jibbering and eating it should be done in about 6 months.

Today was an unusually pleasant day actually. Primarily because I got YET ANOTHER parcel from Canada! This time from Mel (thanks Mel) beautifully packaged with a lovely card. My mail has never been so exotic. It's almost worth leaving it down on the letter shelf in the lobby a bit longer, just so everyone else in the building knows what exciting deliveries I get. In your face you losers with your boring bills.

And I went for coffee with my friend Dr H. We had a big chat about psychic powers and mediums and such-like. She is 'a believer' (her words), I am not. She is a molecular biologist and I would never have pegged her for 'a believer' but then I don't know why I should think that really. Clearly 'believers' don't have two heads or wear signs round their necks or anything. This isn't to say I don't have a fairly open mind about this sort of thing but I need evidence. And I'm surprised that, as a scientist, she is so prepared to accept a supernatural explanation. I'd be interested in comments on this - just wondering what general opinions are/personal experiences etc.

Also 10 points for me on trying to blog every day. Two days in a row. Well done me.