day off

Took the day off work today. I've got a bit of a sore throat and I don't have anything important at work anyway. Doing a further degree is fantastic - the flexibility of an academic life is very attractive indeed.

We went to Kit and Kuki's wedding last weekend, and also to New Forest and Stonehenge. Saw some deer (just found out that the plural of deer is deer!) and many free-roaming ponies in New Forest. It's quite cool how they have ponies grazing outside people's homes.

Here's a picture of Stonehenge


Finally got round to visiting this place after talking about it for such a long time. We weren't expecting much since someone else was really putting us off by saying how crap it was and how you couldn't go right up to the stones and walk amidst them. So we got there in nice sunny late afternoon and enjoyed the short audio tour around the stones.

Other than that, my flow phantom for my project is finally coming together. I've got this small but heavy servo-driven gear pump that is supposed to simulate pulsatile flow. Just have to make it work now *cross fingers*