Follow Fee: New blog. Only blog?

I've decided that maybe it would be best to keep just one blog, rather than have different blogs for different subjects. This means that my blog will seem a rather eclectic mix of things, but it least it will be representing the whole of me, rather than just "science Fee" or "obsessed with Tudor history Fee." So this is me; a little record of things I get up to in my life. I'd like to include everything. Now that I have a phone with a half-decent camera, I intend to take more pictures and to share them with you. I'd like to include most things I get up to, even if it's just something I get stuck on at work (usually Excel) or a new piece of music I learn on the piano (who would have thought that Three Blind Mice would pose such a challenge?)

I think sometimes I try to be too organised. For example, when I first started my PhD I had a notebook for EVERYTHING: a lab book, a rough lab book, a general notes notebook, a seminar notebook. But what would happen is I would forget/lose a note book and write notes in the incorrect notebook. A few months later I decided to have just 2: one for the lab, and one for everything else. It means that the book is a mixture of seminar notes, random thoughts, doodles, calculations, but I know where everything is. And it's saving me a lot of space!

So I hope to keep up-to-date with this blog. I've decided this year that I would like to visit as many places as possible associated with the Tudors. I have a bit of an obsession with Tudor history, especially Elizabeth I's reign. This would definitely be my specialist subject on Mastermind. So as a struggle to remember the composition of feldspar minerals I can quite easily tell you what year and month Elizabeth nearly died of smallpox, or the year that Henry VIII chopped off Anne Boleyn's head. Ah, the brain. Such a weird and wonderful thing.

Now that I live so close to London a lot of the places I want to visit are rather local. The first will be Hampton Court Palace, hopefully next weekend, so I will keep you posted. I went to the Tower of London in January and didn't spend nearly enough time there, so I intend to go back. Here are a few pictures I took while I was there.