The week began in an ordinary fashion, though on Wednesday, Council all went to the GSCR to do a sweep and a clean. On Thursday night, Kevin invited Annika, Jacqueline, Margaret and myself over for dinner. Kevin makes nice curries, so we all happily obliged. We ended up spending a lot of the night just… Continue reading Week 102: Last Night of the Proms
The working week would be somewhat abbreviated, but I still managed to get a bit done. I now had data in a format that would be useful for generating some plots about the indirect detection rates. I spent the first few days of the week ironing out a few bugs, before having to chase through… Continue reading Week 101: BBC Proms Weekend 8
Monday started the week with Jacqueline and I both still in London. We decided to stay down in London until Wednesday. The sole reason for this was due to the ticket arrangements for the Last Night of the Proms, to be held in early September. To get our promming tickets for classical music’s largest annual… Continue reading Week 99: BBC Proms Weekend 5 (Part 2) and Wimpole Hall
After work on Monday, I went to collect my cricket whites one last time for the summer. Darwin College had made the final of the MCR cricket league. We were up against Jesus College, both of us having only lost one match each over the summer. Jesus beat us in our last meeting, but somehow… Continue reading Week 98: BBC Proms Weekend 5 (Part 1)
It was to be our last day of our Central European trip; Jacqueline and I were scheduled to fly home from Vienna later in the afternoon. But first, there was time for a last little bit of sightseeing around the musical capital. Jacqueline and I checked out of our hostel in the morning, leaving our… Continue reading Prague/Vienna Trip – Day 5: Haydn and Beethoven
It was the second day in Vienna for Jacqueline and I, and although we weren’t planning on spending nearly as much time listening to classical music as the first day, it would still form a central theme in all of our activities for the day. We needed to fit in all of our tourist activities… Continue reading Prague/Vienna Trip – Day 4: Haus der Musik
The following guest post was written by Jacqueline in response to her birthday present in Vienna. Ever since I surprised Ben with his birthday present in March, he had been teasing me about my birthday gift. Despite the “you might be angry with me” to “you won’t receive it until couple weeks after your birthday”… Continue reading Prague/Vienna Trip – Day 3: Music in Vienna
