For those of you who have trouble imaging how long 980 double decker buses would be, try imagining 1/38440th of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Alternatively, it’s ~10km. By pure coincidence, this just happens to be the distance that Eilidh ran last Sunday (Photo finish here) raising money for Yorkshire Cancer Centre.

The Prime Minister just appeared on television to apologise for the loss of the web log entries that should have been posted here. The blogs were eventually found on a roundabout in Exeter, but have since been lost in the post while being posted back to the place they were originally posted from.

So, to make up for the dearth of updates utterly failing to make an impression on this corner of the web, a new plan has been conjured up. The administrative load of looking after this site was burning up all of the time that should have been spent writing stuff, so we've cut things right back and made them much simpler. We've also resolved to try and post more frequent, if brief, entries, as we know quite a lot of our friends keep in touch with our movements through this site. If you do, you might like to look at our new news page.

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The southern hemisphere is a great place to view Comet McNaught as it moves away from the Sun. It can be seen clearly from Wellington, as long as you get high enough to see over the hills. Here are our slightly blurry (no tripod) photos taken from Mt Victoria.

Eilidh had her viva on Tuesday, and it went very well. After a small number of corrections are made and various administrative meetings are held, it'll all be official. Somewhat surprisingly, on the very same day, Eilidh also realised that she was not 28 but was in fact 27.

We are now the proud recipients of our very first parking ticket. Great.

In 1989, while working at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web so that scientists all across the world could share photos of their children and pets. We are proud to be able to continue this tradition. Read on to find out about the contents of our fish tank...