It was a really early start for me with the BBC filming as I needed to get to LHR for 7am. I also needed a hire car as mine wasn’t big enough. George at TV6 arranged for me to pick up a vauxhall Astra saturday morning and then use that early on the sunday. I [...]

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For those of you that have been following my recent blog updates you will know that I am soon heading off for a month on a Charity road trip around Europe so I needed to make sure that all my loose ends research wise were as tided up as they can be! Those of you [...]

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I have had a few STEM events over the last two weeks I did one at my old school Sheldon in Chippenham and one at Ridgeway in Wroughton. There were lots of teachers at each event asking about how they could make use of ambassadors such as myself to enthuse their students about Science, Technology, [...]

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Well I have taken the plunge and despite the ‘credit crisis’ and terrible rate for us Brits on the Euro my friend Jo at Oopalley yet again sorted me out a great deal. Heading out to morzine on the 10th of Feb for 6 days so hopefully I might see a few people out there.
I [...]

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I would like to wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas and may you all have prosperous new years as well
We’ve not opened any presents yet here but I hope everyone that has gets everything they wished for. x

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I am in NEW SCIENTIST! This is clearly the highlight of my nerdy career to date and it really made my day when my copy turned up in the mail a day early! Make sure you go out and buy your copy for two reasons one it has me in a huge thanks [...]

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The nice people at Shred Betties emailed me for an interview to which I happily obliged.

http://www.shredbetties.com/riders/story/doctor_snowboard/
They wanted to know about my work and the project with True Snowboards which is great as it means more people are taking a keen interest in the science of snowboard design.
One of the questions that I [...]

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Well after a day or two off recovering from the Metro Ski show and having my MRI scan done for my car accident in July I am back on track with work. I have now submitted my end of second year report and was in the office yesterday catching up on emails and investigating what [...]

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