Doctor Pascoe

Since last November, there has been an element of suspense in the Harvey household.

When I started this blog, many moons ago, Pascoe was in the last year of his Biology degree at UEA, and applying for PhDs.

It went well and he went to work for Susan Rosser at Edinburgh University.

We missed Pascoe, being so many miles away, but thanked heavens for Skype.

His first couple of years, he settled into the work, but there was also evidence that he was taking full advantage of the cultural life of Edinburgh and the social life of a postgraduate student.

Over the last year or so, our impression has been that the balance has tipped decisively away from fun and towards PhD write-up, with regular break-outs climbing snowy mountains for the sake of sanity. (Which he doesn’t tell me about until afterwards – for the sake of MY sanity.)

Then in November, he handed his thesis in, landed a temporary job at the Edinburgh Genome Foundry and waited for his viva.

For a long time, not much seemed to be happening, then finally last Friday, we got the news he had passed with flying colours – only minor corrections. 

So now the time of waiting is joyfully over and life will move on again.  The only question is "What next?"

Celebratory doctoral meal