Phew

busy, busy weeks. Seven hours of teaching per week, all squeezed into a 26 hour period that starts at 19.30 on a Wednesday. Two more hours will be added soon (I know, from outside academia seven hours may not sound like a lot, but each hour of face to face contact needs more hours of preparation). Also:

• a school pupil spent a week doing work experience with me. Very rewarding for me, I think new and exciting for her
• we had our first Cosmic Way public event, a mix of cosmic ray and subatomic physics, solar-terrestrial interactions, and Scottish science history, hopefully made accessible for all sorts of people. Watch that website, by the way - more to come. Special mention for the music by Drew Mulholland.
• we were visited by Christian Monstein, from ETH Zurich, who helped us to establish a wee radio telescope looking for bursts of radio waves from the Sun. Our telescope uses Christian's Callisto receiver, and contributes its data to the e-Callisto network. Here's our first solar radio burst - doesn't look like much, I know - we'll open it up in other blog postings. Here is Christian's report of its setting-up
• the Centre for Open Studies had its official launch event, a very nice day with taster sessions on many of our subjects (yes, including Astronomy), and with representatives from many of friends in other organisations, like the Astronomical Society of Glasgow
• I took a couple of posters to the Royal Astronomical Society discussion meeting on solar radiophysics, one on our e-Callisto node and the other on the work Aline Dinkelaker and I carried out together, asking: "do solar flares behave like avalanches or cascades?"

And of course all the other jobs that go with the start of the teaching year and with keeping the research going, some just as interesting as those I've listed. Too much blogging - back to work.