Third and final Rate My Hat!

With less than a month left of fundraising things are hotting up!

Firstly!

You voted for a duel on Tower Bridge!

And you shall have one! (I shall do my best not to get arrested...)

Secondly!

Snowdon will be conquered! Come hell or high water!

Thirdly get on and Rate My Hat!

The Panama

The Fedora

Donations, big or small, are all welcome!

Many thanks to Heselden Hats of Faversham

Finally I a request from someone trying to become Dr X and study anger! Remember the more villains there are the more interesting life gets for adventurers.

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Miss Kate Cross

Durham University

Dear Mr. Linsell, Esq.

Firstly, I wish you well with your endeavours as a gentleman adventurer! Your blog is indeed marvellous and I look forward to the next post with great enthusiasm. Being a researcher called Cross who is studying anger, I appreciate a good bit of science-comedy juxtaposition. I'm also really looking forward to being able to write my name as Dr X...

Which brings me to the purpose of this little missive! I am nearing the end of my PhD and making one final push for data collection. I've been asking, begging, cajoling, grovelling, entreating, beseeching, and imploring (I've even been known to supplicate a little) as many people as possible to take a few moments to fill out my questionnaire about angry behaviour

...which is here: http://face.dur.ac.uk/expt/lgb/09/kate/

Each participant brings me closer to finishing my thesis! I'm hoping that some of the marvellous folk who follow your blog might be willing to fill out said questionnaire, thus earning:

a) My undying gratitude, and

b) The knowledge that they have helped to create... Dr X!

Gratefully,

Kate Cross

FOR SCIENCE!

Well it's been a dashed busy week!

I have been volunteering at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Will 22,000 people coming to the festival it was a busy and sometimes hectic event, but ultimately a huge amount of fun! In and amongst the directing crowds of school children, manning the audio visual desks in events, I got to meet the Physicist Jim Al-Khalili , Robert Llewellyn (Yep, from Red Dwarf), the science editor for The Times, and The Minister for Science and Universities, David Willets.

The Science Minister was very enthusiastic and a big fan of getting children into Science and engineering. Just how raising tuition fees will achieve this he didn't quite specify...

He's also not a fan of the metric system.

The festival had me at my most gentlemanly, be it directing elderly ladies to venues, helping small children, or schmoozing at the Hotel du Vin. It was also a great opportunity to meet up with people from FameLab, a science communication competition I did last year. For those of you who I said I would tell when I put the three minute wonder on youtube - here it is.

It's been all emails ago this afternoon and hopefully Tower Bridge will say yes to the duel.

Fingers crossed!

Afraid I have to go now, I'm off to investigate a necropolis this weekend.

Your's sincerely,

Alistair Linsell - Gentleman Adventurer!