I spent the last two Saturdays counting trees for the Roslin Moat 2020 Tree Survey. Hundreds and hundreds of trees. It was not only a…
Yesterday marked a full year of meeting and exceeding my goal of 10,000 steps a day. And although it is my ultimate hope to make…
I don’t know about you, but I find that humour and a bit of silliness help me to cope with the stress of life. And…
Like many people trying to survive during the COVID19 pandemic, I have been doing everything I can to keep myself safe and healthy. And, like…
It has been a long time coming, but I am finally a doctor. Oh yes, I am now officially Dr Frances Ryan. The PhD kind…
Regular readers will know that my PhD Dreams have been an important part of my life for a few years now. And excitedly, my PhD Dreams will…
I took part in a fun, blood-themed scavenger hunt yesterday. The event, Bloodscape, was designed to explore changing blood trends as part of the 2018 Being Human…
Holidays to the Homeland means time with my nieces and nephews. I treasure that time as it allows me to catch up with what everyone is…
Today was one of those “once in a lifetime” moments that I hope (and expect!) will happen more than once in my lifetime: A total eclipse…
I’m in my Homeland for three weeks and that means I’m ready for some playtime! This is my first visit home since my Daddy’s 70th birthday party and…
Life has been pretty thesis-centric these days and it’s been causing me a great amount of stress. Part of that stress is because I have felt a…
I’ve spent the last two days at the 5th annual Discover Academic Research, Training, and Support (DARTS) conference in Devon, England, where I was invited to speak about my…
Like many people, I fancy myself a bit of a comedienne. I like to crack jokes and I regularly have episodes of SUBS syndrome that I just…
Today is a special day in my life. Today is the day I become the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Yes, today I…
It started a little over a year ago. Every few days, I would wake up and there would be faint, shimmering lines on the carpet…
Yesterday was Halloween. And Halloween means playing dress up. It was also the Alloa Real Ale Festival. And that means drinking beer. And as I love…
Once again, National Punctuation Day is upon us. And that means I am going to talk about one of my favourite things—punctuation! But I’m going to change…
Today was opening day for the new Borders Railway between Edinburgh and Tweedbank. And as I am a bit of a train buff who enjoys being “first” to…
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but my parents were really mean when I was growing up. As in they were so mean that they…
Once again, my work day saw me walking to-and-from my office for all-important errands. And, once again, I seem to have stumbled into a charity…