Awesome review of Greenman Music Festival including a little bit about the Egg and Sperm Race. Yey for not being ‘boring’!
http://plastik.me/green-man-fest-2012-mud-bath-central/
Thanks Helia Phoenix!
I’ve uploaded all the photos from this years Greenman festival! You can see them all here but I’ve included some highlights in this post!
Finally back into a work routine this week and cracking on with all the post-Egg and Sperm Race chores like writing blog posts, sending photos to people and the all so important evaluation and claiming back all my expenses. Its nice to get hundreds of pounds transferred to your account a week before payday, makes me feel rich for a day before I need to transfer it all to my credit card.
I’m finally home from Greenman and showered and dressed in clean mud free clothes. Its never felt better!! Especially after spending an hour trying to push our van out of the mud, in the rain. We finally got pulled out by a kind man with a Land-rover who was super nice! I don’t know his name but thank you nice man for helping us get out the field muddy puddle.
I’ve also just heard from the other party (Gemma and volunteers) on the bus that the driver took the wrong way home and they only got home about an hour ago. Mega transport fail today.
We did have a fantastic weekend though, so many amazing visitors came to our stall and played our game, even with all the rain and mud. The feedback you gave us was amazing and I’m still buzzing of it!
Einsteins Garden was great too. I got to hold creepy crawlers, sing science songs, make lung pictures and dress up in a deer skull – pretty random. Although my favourite stall was Journey of the Jobbie – the name sold it alone! It was such an awesome activity where you got to journey though the mouth and all the way down the digestive track and come out the “other-side” while learning about all the bacteria along the way. Being a microbiologist this made my inner geek really happy!
So work doesn’t stop yet, tomorrow I need to be up bright and early to unload this van and return it by 12 – I do not want to do this! Then I have a million photos to sort through and I took lots of videos thinking I would try and make a nice video like the Einstein’s Garden one – although we will see how successful this will be. I’m also right back to work in the lab in the morning. Yawn! in the mean time I’ve uploaded some of my instagram pictures of the weekend that I took before my iphone died.
So its off to bed now but more updates later in the week!
Night x
So right now we are on our epic road trip to Wales for Greenman!
I’m driving our giant uterus in a big van while Gemma and the volunteers bus is down!
Set off last night and currently swallowed up on the M6 and have drank pretty much all the coffee!
Awesome news!!!
The MRC are funding us again this year which means we have enough money to race sperm again!
Massive thank you to everyone at MRC for all their help over the last 15 months!
Reading through our copious blog posts from last year, I can’t help but notice that this year we’ve been a little quiet. The simple explanation is that last year we were bright young things frolicking through the first years of our PhDs, but this year we’re suddenly speeding towards the third year at an alarming rate. Nevertheless, we’re glad we put in all that effort because this year has been a comparative walk in the park. Or at least a walk around Asda and HobbyCraft.
The good news is that we’re nearly there. We’ve got all our tickets, we’ve given the uterus a lick of paint, we’ve even got some of our food (Pot Noodles were 50p in Asda, they had all the flavours, we looked very classy loading about 20 in the trolley).
We’re also pleased to announce the names of our lovely volunteers for this year:
More volunteers = less tiring work = happier workers = visitors who don’t have to race sperm with zombified reproductive biologists = more fun all round.
More information on our wonderful volunteers to follow!
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This week we received conformation that our funding application to the Society for Endocrinology was successf
ul!! Many thanks to the lovely people over there who considered our application.
If you’re interested in science communication check out their website or if you want to know more about hormones they have a great public website You and Your Hormones.
Now we are all set to go to Green Man festival in August and are starting to get into full event organisation mode!
1 month to go!!
The lovely people at Einstein’s Garden at Green Man festival are letting us return for another year with our giant uterus and egg pinatas!
Can’t. Wait.
This year they’re also letting us take more volunteers, so if you’d like to help us out, get in touch! You’ll get a free ticket to Green Man, money towards your food each day, and free transport in return for your hard graft on the stall. The only catch is you have to be a reproductive biologist (the best type of biologist). If you are, awesome, email us here: eggandspermrace@gmail.com.
If you’re some other sort of biologist, we miiiiiiiight consider taking you, but you’ll have to swot up on the ins and outs of reproductive biology, and be able to say that without sniggering.
See you in Way-les!
Gemma
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We submitted the Greenman Music Festival application this week. Please let us come back for another year!!!
I was having a gander at the Green Man Festival website today (and getting really excited about the 2012 line up), when I stumbled across this video of Einstein’s Garden in 2011 – complete with footage of our beautiful volunteers and our even more beautiful (sorry guys) giant uterus!
This is getting us in the mood to make a return to Green Man this year. We’re just filling out the application form and trying to get a bit more funding. Fingers crossed they’ll have us back!
(We feature from 1.19-1.30, and a happy punter holds up her “I came first in the Egg and Sperm Race” badge at 2.02.)
Gemma
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