New Direction

So, it’s official, I’m now in charge of iSLI until at least July of next year.  It was put to the board on Friday and they ratified my position as director.  I’ve actually been in the role now for a month, and whilst it is a lot of work and there is a definite feeling of responsibility I am really enjoying it.  News had already been oozing out on the (rather compact!) grapevine that exists here, to the point that I was being asked or congratulated by about half the people I knew at an event last week.  You really know you’ve arrived when you start getting company director junk mail – NOT!

So, lots to do between now and a year in July.  Universities to bring more closely on board, funding applications to build consensus around, write and have approved oh and a company to run from day to day.  It’s certainly not the sort of job that is lacking in things to push forward.  There might even be, dare I say it, some making up for lost time…

Open wide!

We had growth scans at 28 and 32 weeks with the result that the head circumference was somewhere just about the 50th percentile on both occasions, but the abdominal measurement was above at 28 weeks and below at 32 weeks.  As a result we were asked to go back today for a further scan, carried out by the obstrician, to make sure that the baby wasn’t suffering from some inhibition in growth.Continue reading

Summertime, and the living is easy(!?)

Summer it certainly is.  We’ve had a great spell of even greater weather, with the mercury toddling up into the mid twenties (and no that’s not Farenheit, David) which is just way too hot for any human to endure for an extended period.  Mrs. B., being a lizard, has been lapping up the heat, and despite looking like she’s trying to steal a spacehopper from a toy shop, has been unaffected by this ungodly heatwave.  Doglet is far more human, and seems to have had the decency to find it a little warm of late.