Yesterday was one of the windiest days I've seen for a while. What a fun blog post, eh? Well, not really, except for the fact that I stumbled upon (not literally) this fallen tree whilst walking home, so popped out to photograph it. I've quite enjoyed my night photography of late, and am quite pleased with this one too.

The weather was also headline news - four people died due to it, and my girlfriend Marla got stranded in Crewe on her way to Edinburgh on the train. Thankfully, she got taxied off to Nantwich, where she was given food and wine in an Italian restaurant and a night in a hotel, all on Richard Branson. This was the first day of her travels around Europe - so what a start!

I wonder if "the weather" could be an interesting subject for my photography to focus on...

I took a trip to BT's labs in Suffolk this week. My PhD is part-funded by BT, and I have the opportunity to work quite closely with them over the next three years.

So, this week I got to present my initial ideas and understanding of the project on which I'm going to work, and get some much needed feedback from them.

Starting a PhD can be a difficult and complex thing. I have so many questions about the size, scope and depth of the work which I'm expected to do. Luckily, the whole project seems to be designed so that the student (i.e. me) can determine all these things, so long as the supervisors and examiners are satisfied that it's up to the required standard.

Coming relatively fresh to much of the topic area that I'm studying right now, this is somewhat overwhelming, albeit exciting too. I have so many ideas, and very little focus just yet. But, it's still early days, I keep telling myself. Luckily, this week, I was also told this by the folks at BT, who seemed fairly happy with the way I'm progressing.

Now, I just have to try to focus it down a little... I think I might also try to write a bit on my (hitherto empty) university web page about what I'm doing. That might help. :-)