Rothamsted Christmas Party - Dec 7th

Every year the Rothamsted Manor staff throw a Christmas party for all of the residents.  Good food compared to normal, and of course lots of free drinks. 

Audrey cycles North - December 1st

The eternal climb.  With the weight of the panniers and the length of the hill, I ended up pushing my bike up most of this bit. 

A view of the hills and moors below "Wuthering Heights," a few miles away from Haworth, the little grey town where the Bronte family lived.

Dent, a village in the Yorkshire Dales.  It was worth riding down here, despite the endless climb out of town to Ingleton.


Edinborough - December 4th                                                                               

 Eli cooking breakfast

 

 

 

Walking near Frithden - November 18th

 

Cornwall - November 11-13

Ezra biking through the hedges, Cornwall

Our second night on the road we stayed with Monroe (Couchsurfing).  He had a very nice couch and shared some dried cocoa beans with us.

At the Eden Project.  A really, really large greenhouse!

Ezra standing in front of a large bee at the Eden Project.

 The coast of Cornwall south of St. Austell

 

Bicycle ride to Frithden - November 4th

 

Rothamsted Halloween Party - October 24th


Tate Modern Museum, London - October 24th

Slides at the Tate Modern.  These were installed by a former entomologist who worked and published a paper with John Pickett.

 

Rothamsted Walking Club- October 21 to Ivinghoe Beacon 

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The Walking Club at Ivinghoe Beacon, the highpoint of the trip.  BCH member Keith Chamberlain is on the far left.

 Windmill near Ivinghoe.  Built in the 1600s.

New Forest - October 14-15, 2006

Audrey holding our bikes while we wait for the train.

The Horses in the New Forest are unfenced and are allowed to roam around freely.

Sailboats on the coast near Herst Castle


The forest


Oxford - October 7-8, 2006

Audrey and I caught a ride from Rothamsted to Oxford with another Rothamsted student this weekend. Audrey's brother David is a Fellow at Oxford studying Criminology and his wife Jen is working on Doctorate at Cambridge studying Synesthesiology. They gave us a nice tour of "Christ Church College" at Oxford and cooked us a great dinner.

Audrey and her brother David in front of his office

 

 

This is a big old tree in a courtyard of Christ Church College at Oxford.  The wooden jacks are supporting the long overhanging limbs of this tree.

Rothamsted Manor

Rothamsted is in the small town of Harpenden, and the research center is a short 5 minute walk from the town center. The Manor, where most incoming PhD students and visiting scientists stay is another 5 minutes past the main buildings of Rothamsted Research and is settled next to some woods in the middle of the Rothamsted property.