my cat likes to lay along the edge of the bath when I am having a soak. She normally nods off until I get out, but poor thing has fallen in a couple of times where it's been a bit slippery. She has also threatened an attack on her own shadow and pounced on herself in the mirror, which is wierd because I didn't think cats had that sort of awareness of their reflection. She has never caught anything proper but regularly goes for socks from the laundry, and will bring them to me or leave them on the back door mat as some other cats do with dead animals.

I guess my cat isn't too bright.

FF - you could be the new nancy drew!

I had a toad when I was a kid ( as well as rabbit, hamster, gerbils, dog and cats). It was a bit like noah's ark at our house. Now it's just me & my lovely cat who I got as a kitten when I started the PhD. She is great company & listens to all my presentations.

Tea is 'in' official. I read in the newpaper this morning that consumer research has shown sales of tea and cream cakes are on the up due to the cultural revival of high tea.

Where PGF leads fashionitas follow.

Dr DJW I presume! How the hell are you? How's the arm?

Aliby your stuff about the role of the expert sounds v. interesting.
I am looking a little bit at personality branding. Do you know anything about this area / have any good refs?

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/postgraduate/story/0,,2058388,00.html

I LOVE IT! I am going to print out and put it on my pin board in my office.

*nigelbarkerkissingpea*

Sue how are things today? No frogs raining from the sky or anything?

Nigel Barker is the most impossibley handsome man. Sometimes I wonder if he is a real person he is so good -looking.

Sixkitten, ou est?

Freaky readers
Honey I'm boring the kids
Lame Academy
What not to study
Literature swap
Lab factor
Britain's next top academic ( though Nigel Barker noted fashion photographer should definately be a judge still )

Alison Moyet

This is one for anybody who was at the B.S.A or who saw the front page of the Times Higher on Friday. What with our Bobby's TV series and my dally with an agent I thought it was quite timely. Aparently we have a duty to promote ourselves as public intellectuals, but UK academics in particular suffer from being misunderstood and ridiculed by the media & policy makers who think we're a bunch of abtract wafflers out of touch and with no grip on the real world.