View from the Potting Shed

How can it be the end of March already?!
It’s not just me, is it? Easter felt infeasibly early this year. I happened before the clocks went forward (from GMT to BST). In fact, it happened before it had even stopped snowing!
And now that Easter is passed, Jesus has risen again (Alleluia!) and in […]

This afternoon Jane and I drove over (drover?) to Dundee to Ninewells Hospital to sign consent forms and give a blood sample for screening (Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV) prior to our IVF treatment beginning sometime this year.
Seemingly we were supposed to have done this preparatory work a few months ago but with the […]

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Today is St Andrews Day — patron saint of Scotland and Russia. Which, this year, means one thing in our house: it’s the day for Jane’s IVF-related operation.
For those who don’t know: we’re on an IVF programme at Ninewells hospital, Dundee and a few months back during a routine scan […]

Kidney beans don’t get high blood pressure.
Bill e Bob left a comment on my last post “PC absolution” saying “Enough of this techno-geekery, where is your devastating review of the rugby? I think in the words of our more aggressive football-supporting brethren, ‘It’s all gone quiet over there’”.
It’s all gone quiet for one special reason: […]

The last couple of days have had a strong hospital theme to them. One was a planned visit, the other wasn’t.
Monday
On Monday Jane and I went over to Dundee for a meeting and more tests to try to progress us towards starting IVF. Unfortunately it’s not going to be quite as straightforward as we’d hoped. […]

I didn’t get much sleep last night, despite going to bed early (before 22:00). You see, our cats, Spot and Smudge, appear to have founded an Ian Banks-inspired Mouse Factory.
During the night they brought in four mice. Well, okay, if you want to get technical about it: three and a half. In they’d bound, […]

View of University Library from my office window
So there I was sitting at my desk staring through my office window towards the University Library, taking a break from redesigning SAULCAT (the University Library catalogue search pages), and wondering: how can I find out more about the whole IVF process?
And then like a moment of epiphany […]