In which satire elects to take on reality – and loses by a landslide! Our Eternal President Decides to Mend his Ways As this episode in the Cairnland saga is being written, the territory that surrounds our 70 acre enclave…
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OR HOW A DEAD TURKEY ALLOWED US TO TAKE A FURTHER STEP FORWARD, AND HOW ANOTHER PROJECT FINALLY CAME INTO FOCUS As I write this, it’s still only February, but next month is just a couple of days away, so…
Welcome to this second report from Cairnland! For those of you who are new to what is going on here, we should explain that this new nation is Cairn’s response to the UK’s decision to leave the EU. Cairn Research…
We advance an interesting theory, but you’re not going to like it!!! Greetings once again from Plymouth, from where I produce many of these blogs. This time though, it fairly quickly follows our “Cairnland” solution to the consequences of the…
We are delighted to announce that following the, to us, very unwelcome decision of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, Cairn Research has just held a referendum of its own. Unlike the marginal result of that national referendum,…
Once again I find myself writing a blog from Plymouth, this time for two reasons. First, it’s much easier to find the time for this sort of thing here than it is back home in Faversham, Second and perhaps more…
Getting the planning permission to put up our new building at the farm seems months ago now. That’s because it was, so why are we only now preparing to make a start? Well, building work just seems to be like…
Once again I find myself at Plymouth, teaching on the microscopy course this time. All here is very much as before, which amongst other thing means a very warm welcome from the staff here, and also some seriously good lunches,…
September has come around again, which means that once again Andrew our Technical Director and my good self are in Plymouth for the Cell Physiology Workshop. Unfortunately this also means that my consequent escape from day-to-day Cairn activities leaves me…
A TALE OF TWO BUILDINGS (Or how the low prestige of ours has its compensations!) It’s September 2015, which finds me teaching at the Cell Physiology Workshop in Plymouth once again. This is also the location from which I tend…