Rico, Katerina and Jelena went to Cornwall for the Genetics Department Graduate Retreat at the weekend.

The suspiciously cheap luxury hotel turned out to be a creepy Scientology secret base (no kidding!), but we successfully evaded the cult recruitment attempts, and deconstructing Scientology nonsense provided much amusement to the whole group. However, at the end of the weekend we were all glad to escape the plastic butterfly art, freaky harp music and Scientology propaganda.

On the bright side – the coastline was stunning, we listened to lots of excellent presentations, and had some great discussions. Also, the Eden Project is both beautiful and educational, and was well worth a visit. We’re grateful to all the Genetics grad students for an awesome and entertaining weekend 🙂

New music on Steve’s iTunes: including some excellent material from Grails, a new Vessels LP, an excellent Marmaduke Duke CD, a wonderfully gentle King Creosote album.  Eat lights:Become Lights are a fairly new bunch of knob twiddlers – splendid stuff.  A few LPs from the recently discovered (by me at least) ……And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead.  Finally, Youngteam are an interesting Swedish band I recently came across that are worth a listen.

All this and so much more………..enjoy 🙂