Owing to a system glitch I very nearly purchased 25 jars of star anise from Tesco Click & Collect. I estimate this would have been a 100 lifetime supply of star anise. In the year 5021, one of my descendants would be finishing off the supply.

My account appears to have been hacked. How exciting.

Productive meeting with Innovation Bubble innovationbubble.eu in St Pancras Hotel. Good to finally go inside my favourite London building

Working outside the lab today and all I can hear is the repeated 'bleep' of the barcode scanner mixed with the Archers on the lab radio.

Katy now doing every stage of assay four times with water while Agnes from Salimetrics tries to avoid being in shot.

Lab manager being filmed transferring samples in the lab for a documentary. Will the dreaded pipetting performance anxiety kick in?

On an air conditioned train #bliss

At presentations by very senior staff. Realise my phone is in my bag 20 metres away. Might be on silent. Might not #stress

How have I managed to live without knowing about conditional formatting in Excel?

Listening to the Archers podcast. Is this a peak or trough in my life?

Playing with Lab Information Management System - 100MB of assay data. What could be more fun? Really, what could be more fun? #AISLIMS

The Sep-Pak columns are here so I can get started on the saliva oxytocin ELISA with partners in crime Salimetrics

On an away day and the toilets have a seat by the urinal. Odd. I can't think why you'd want a seat there.

John Ruskin, the artist that Anglia Ruskin is named after, looks a lot like Wolverine from the X-men.

The wait to discover whether Vettel has got a penalty has been more exciting than the first three Abu Dhabi Grands Prix combined. #F1

There is a fallen tree on the train line and the driver just announced we were going to squeeze under the tree. Sounded odd but it worked.

On the way to some the day with AIS LIMS to develop the latest module for our lab database. I may get out nerded.

A day of salivary fun at Anglia Ruskin University @SalimetricsEuro salimetricseurope.blogspot.com/2012/04/book-n…

Use salivary measures as a minimally invasive alternative to serum, opens all possibilities ?salimetricseurope.blogspot.co.uk #bps2012

Broken oar for Oxford. Surely a drive through for Hamilton... #boatrace