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I went down to Invercargill to celebrate Debbie’s birthday. Debbie is a fellow chemistry geek and one of the awesomest people I know. Happy 21st Debbie

Blowing, blowing, blowing …

BLOWN!

The speeches: So what did Carla say that made Debbie squirm so much?

Jon and I took our new Research Fellow down to the Catlins for some site seeing.

I visited the Royal Albatross colony with a new flatmate. The colony is at the end of Otago Peninsula only 30 mins drive from Dunedin.

Here’s a photo of the Brooker Bunch, the research group (which I’m a member of) of Prof. Sally Brooker. From left: Jason Price, Nick White, Andy Noble, Sally Brooker, Jon Kitchen and Ryan Hellyer (me).

While visiting Cassienne in Christchurch I took these panoramas of Lyttleton harbour with Banks Peninsula in the background.

Here’s some photos I took at my parents crib at Toko Mouth. A crib by the way (for you non South Islander’s) is a term we use for a holiday house. Toko Mouth is situated at the mouth of the Tokomaririro river 45 mins drive south of Dunedin.

First came the number eight wire, now comes the stock pot We needed to scale up a reaction in the lab (potassium permanganate oxidation), so instead of repeating it a gazillion times, Sally suggested I got a big pot and scaled it up Since giant beakers from Aldrich cost a fortune (and break easily), I went and found the biggest, baddest, cheapest stock pot I could find at the Warehouse (NZ equivilent of Walmart), stuck a mechanical stirrer in it, heated the blazes out of it with a regular sized heater stirrer and we had a massive scale (by our standards) reaction vessel

Nick White helped me with some of this work as part of his summer project.

I drove Debbie and Brendon down to Invercargill. We stopped at the worlds most exciting bus stop - Froggat Rd.

… I am Milton …

I headed up to Christchurch with Debbie. We road tripped with her friends Davin and Emma (Goose). We went to an engagement party of some people I’d never met, promptly disturbed them and headed back to Dunedin the next day

Emma …

Debbie …

Davin … you’ll need to use your imagination as the photo didn’t turn out well.

The weather was good so I headed out to Lake Waihola (about 25 mins from Dunedin) and took some snaps.