My birthday in 2006 marked my first full year in Scotland. Here are some images from throughout the year.
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David reading in our house in Cellardyke |
A fierce storm knocked down the fence in our back garden |
Storms make waves on the sea |
The view over the sea at sunset |
The harbour in the snow |
I visit... Maria in London |
On the same trip I see Hampton Court |
With Meghan |
Margaret comes to visit us |
Back in the lab I get my first incubator |
I attend staff meetings |
After handing in my first grant application David and I go to out dinner at the Thai place |
Patrick and Karen come visit |
I do a lot of train travel |
I go to Glasgow... |
...and give a seminar |
I follow the mysterious... |
Heritage Trail of Newcastle |
Newcastle University |
Where I go to a CARMEN meeting |
Spring brings flowers to St Andrews |
And a new set of staff pictures to our building |
See, that's me! |
David's parents come to visit and we eat at the Haven |
They also come with us to a potluck party |
Put on by Keith (right) from Astronomy and a different Anne from Biology |
We go to the Isle of May and see Guillemots |
And Shags |
And Puffins! |
On the trip back we can see our house across the water! (the white one in the centre a little set back from the others) |
Summer brings kayaks to the harbour |
And Eider chicks |
As well as the har |
We visit the US and see among many others, my grandma |
Back in St Andrews Daniel (another new staff) and I officially get a Bioinformatics room |
Where I have summer students Izzy |
and Christina |
They give me flowers at the end of the summer |
In August the wheat is ripe |
And we start house-hunting This house is too small for David! |
Molly "helps" with the laundry |
And David brushes Indy |
On my birthday we go for fish |
Anne in Anstruther smiling about the fish |
And to remind us we're in Scotland... a guy in a kilt |