SoftMatter@interfaces

News (Previously...)

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• • Vanishing Air-Bubble Layer &Ion Adsorption on Graphene in Aqueous Media - Liangzhi's Carbon paper featured in Science Trends. 

  • Oct 2019: Bhavesh, Gang, Charlotte, & Lauren scatter neutrons on bacterial membranes @SANS2D.

  • Oct 2019: Wuge speaks @Surface Analysis 2019.

  • Sep 2019: Lauren, Xueying, & Nick perform our first neutron diffraction experiment on the mysterious SDS lamellar fibres @NIMROD with Tristan.

  • Sep 2019: Charlotte (strikes back!) returns as a PhD student, working with P&G Brussels. Xueying joins as China Scholarship Council PhD student.

  • Sep 17th 2019: Karl Bracekmann (P&B Brussels) visits - kick-off meeting for Charlotte's PhD project.

  • Sep 2019: Ben, Dajana, Holly, & Magda perform XRR @DESY P08.

  • Sep 2019: Ben, Bhavesh, Dajana, Gang, Joana, Lauren, & Nick present @ECIS2019 in Leuven, Belgiam.

  • Sep 4th 2019: Klemen Bohinc (University of Ljubjana) visits & gives a seminar on "Interactions between Charged Surfaces Mediated by Charged Nanoparticles".

  • Sep 2019: Lauren & Michael perform SANS @ILL D11 with lovely Ralf.

  • Aug 2019: Ben, Lauren, Dajana, & Micahel survie the German canteen while performing XRR @DESY P08.

  • July 2019: Michael won the Best Poster Prize at M4 Colloids 2019.

  • July 2019: Dajana leads a nanofocused XRD experiment on synthetic fibres used in P&G nappies at Diamond I14.

  • June 2019: Wuge to deliver a Keynote at Bubbles & Drops 2019 in Sofia.

  • June 2019: Lorena joins from Mexico as a visiting scholar for 3 months.

  • Very busy June: Lauren, Dajana, Holly, Luisa, Anna, Sarah, Silvia, Ben, Bhavesh, Michael, & Nick perform SANS/XRR at DESY/LLB/ISIS.

  • Jun 2019: Sarah won best talk prize (runners-up) at Bristol Organic & Biological Chemistry PhD talks.

  • May 2019: Laura awarded the Best Communicated Exhibit at Research without Borders Festival.

  • May 2019: Laura speaks at CBMNet meeting on Industrial Biotechnology at the Cell Membrane. 

  • May 2019: Wuge speaks at ISIS Deuteration Meeting organised by Dr Peixun Li (& is determined to hug Bob Thomas again).

  • May 2019: Lauren leads another XRR Diamond I07 experiments.

  • Apr 2019: Patryk's Langmuir paper on Bénard–Marangoni Dendrites highlighted as a front cover.

  • Apr 19th: Double birthday celebration for Dajana & Gang @ Diamond experiment!

  • Apr 2019: Lauren & Dajana lead two Diamond I07 experiments (GSK self-assembly in H-bonding rich solvents & P&G Sensation of touch projects).

  • Mar 2019: Roise awarded Fibrelean Best Final Year Project Talk Prize.

  • Mar 2019: Joana, Silvia & Wuge attend MSCA-ITN BioClean F2F meeting at Siena, whose beauty rivalled Florence during the Renaissance.  

  • Feb 2019: Eloise & Liangzhi glamorously graduate @Wills Memorial Hall!

  • Feb 2019: Sarah, Lauren, & Joana shed neutrons on Sarah's "sweet" nanogels and hydrogels @ ISIS SANS2D with Sarah Rogers.

  • Jan 2019: Dr Gang Wang joins as a Marie Curie Fellow from Chinese Academy of Sciences in Ningbo, by the Qiantang River.

  • Jan 2019: Two XRR experiments at Diamond I07 by two teams (Lauren, Laura, Dajana, & Anna) and (Luisa, Ben, Bhavesh, & Holly).

  • Jan 2019: Patryk defends his PhD thesis (vs. Colin Bain of Durham & Jeroen).

  • Dec 2018: Laura, Iril, Joana won prizes at SoftMatter@Interfaces 2MT (2 min thesis) pre-Xmas lunch presentations from the judging panel, Prof. Andrew Orr-Ewing FRS, Emeritus Prof. Brian Vincent, & Dr Tim Snow (Diamond).

  • Dec 2018: Luisa (of Mexico) weds James (of England)!

  • Dec 2018: Laura, Ben, Lauren, & Holly perform high pressure SAXS @Diamond.

  • Dec 2018: Wuge lectures thermodynamics to newly qualified chemistry school teachers at the Prince's Teaching Institute (PTI).

  • Dec 2018: Dajana, Patrk, Anna perform Microfocused XRD @PSI (Switzerland) on Dajana's synthetic fibres (EPSRC P&G CASE).

  • Nov 2018: Wuge gives seminar @ Warwick Soft Condensed Matter & Biophysics (hosted by Simone Coppola & Steve Williams, 2 wonderful PhD students).

  • Nov 2018: Dr Bhavesh Bharatiya joins as a Marie Curie fellow from Dharmsinh Desai University in India.

  • Nov 2018: Wuge gives seminar @ Edinburgh Chemistry (hosted by Dr Adam Kirrander and Prof. Phil Camp).

  • Nov 2018: Eloise defends her MSc (by Research) thesis (vs. Prof. Paul Luckham, Imperial College, & Jonathan Reid).

  • Nov 2018: Liangzhi defends her MSc (by Research) thesis (vs. Prof. Magdalena Titrici, Imperial College, & Jeroen vD).

  • Oct 2018: Ben, Laura, Michael, Nick & Wuge perform XRR at DESY Petra II P08 (Hamburg) & try in vain to appreciate the German definition of Canteen...

  • Oct 2018: Michael, Nick & Wuge attend Infineum consortium meeting on friction & wear in Birmingham. 

  • Oct 2018: Mieke Kljein (Wageningen) visits Bristol to transfer Hon. Sec & Treasurer of IACIS to Wuge, who was "volunteered" by the Germans...

  • Sep 2018: Holly Stockdale (Master by Research) & Michael Stevenson (PhD in Chemistry) join the group!

  • Sep 2018: Anna, Laura, Lauren, Luisa, Magda, Nick, Sara, & Silvia + Wuge attends ECIS2018 in Ljubljana.

  • Sep 2018: Wuge delivers invited talk at 18th International Pharmaceutical Technology Symposium (18th IPTS) in Antalya (close to where Seljuk Turks defeated Byzantines in the Battle of Manzikert on 26 Aug 1071).

  • Aug 2018: Wuge gives invited talk at Debugging Nanobio-interfaces to promote clinical translation symposium organised by incredibly handsome & hospitable Prof. Roland Stauber at University of Mainz, Germany.

  • July 2018: Wuge attends British Biophysical Society meeting in Southampton.

  • July 2018: Silvia & Wuge attend MSCA-ITN BioClean summer school & mid-term review at University of Ghent, Belgium.  

  • July 2018: Dajana leads a nanofocused XRD at Diamond I14.

  • June 2018: Nick leads an XRR experiment at Diamond I07.

  • June 2018: Wuge lectures at 2018 Advanced School in Soft Condensed Matter: “Solutions in the Spring” in Bristol, organised by Prof. Tannie Liverpool (Bristol) & Dr Anita Zeidler (Bath).

  • June 2018: Wug attends 92nd ACS Colloids at Penn Sate (& has ice cream with charming William Ducker.

  • June 2018: Wuge gives invited talk at Soft Matter+ Day at University of Twente (& meets Wiebe & Saskia's little Dutch pirates).

• Nov 2017: Wuge gives seminar @ Birmingham Chemical Engineering.

• Oct 2017: Wuge speaks @ Materials and Interfaces-Smart, Functional, Sustainable? (Swedish Chemical Society 2017 conference) in Stockholm.

• Oct 2017: Dajana, Will & Wuge visit Johnson Matthey (Will's MSc project sponsor), hosted by Dr Alex de Bruin (former group member) & colleagues.

• Oct 2017: Peter Dowding appointed an Industrial Visiting Professor in Bristol!

• Sep 2017: Wuge an invited speaker at Xmas@20 meeting at ESRF.

• Sep 2017: Ben, Lauren, Liangzhi, Luisa, Nick & Silvia perform XRR at ESRF.

• Sep 2017: Laura Fox & Sarah Michel won Elsevier Best Poster Prizes at 2017 ECIS conference in Madrid. Anna, Fabien, Chris, Liangzhi, & Wuge spoke.

• Sep 2017: Charlotte, Harry, Ricky & Will join as final year project students.

• Aug 2017: Wuge a Keynote speaker at Bridge over troubled water - Nanoscience connecting the disciplines nanoforum for young scientists  at University of Mainz Medical Centre.

• Aug 2017: Marcus, Dajana, Irill & Wuge perform AFM experiments at KTH, Stockholm, & inspect how Georgia is surviving the Vikings (& vice versa).

• Jul 2017: Anna, Eloise, Laura, Lauren, Luisa, & Ben attends M4 Colloids 2007.

• Jul 2017: Patryk & Wuge present at ACS Colloids in New York.

• Jul 2017: Siliva & Wuge @ BioClean training school at Venice.

• Jun 2017: Laura & Marcus won best poster prizes at 2017 Bristol Soft Matter & Colloids PhD Research Day. Anna & Patryk gave (excellent) talks!

• Jun 2017: Eloise & Nick present at ECIS Student Conference in Florence.

• Jun 2017: Laura, Luisa, Magda & Wuge (Invited speaker) attend cecam workshop on Tackling Complexity of the Nano/Bio Interface in Bremen. 

• May 2017: Bristol Spring School in Colloid Science 2017.

• May 2017: Wuge speaks at Pint of Science 2017.

• Apr 2017: Manon Jannaud joins as an Erasmus student from Rennes, France.

• Apr 2017: Final MCITN NanoS3 Management meeting in Budapest.

• Apr 2017: Wuge gives seminar at KCL Chemistry (hosted by Dr Eamonn Reading, our former star project student in the group).

• Apr 2017: Luisa, Anna, Laura, Nick, Magda & Liangzhi perform XRR at ESRF.

• Apr 2017: Magda joins as an Erasmus PhD student from Krakow.

• Apr 2017: Wuge lectures at European School on Interfacial Engineering. 

• Mar 2017: Silvia Ruscigno joins as an MCITN Bioclean PhD fellow. 

• Mar 2017: PhD viva at Imperial Materials (Wuge vs. Podhorska (supervisor: Ian Dunlop)).

• Mar 2017: Michael & Adam won Imerys Best Talk prizes at colloids section final year project presentation.

• Mar 2017: Alex (now Johnson Matthey) defends his PhD vs. Iain Dunlop.

• Mar 2017: Anna & Luisa perform neutron reflectivity measurements at ISIS.

• Feb 2017: Lizzie defends MSci (R) (vs. Anna Trybala Loughborouh & Jeroen).

• Jan 2017: Julia defends her PhD (vs. Hans-Jurgen Butt MPI, Maniz & Paul May), before taking up a postion at Bladeroom in Cheltenhanm

• Dec 2016: Kathrin defends her PhD (vs. Brian Saunders, Manchester & Julian).

• Dec 2016: Jo defends her PhD (vs. Cecile Dreiss, KCL & Jeroen). 

• Dec 2016: Anna, Jacek, Laura, Liangzhi, Luisa, Magda, Nick, & Patryk scatter X-rays at ESRF.

• Oct 2016: Adam, Dan, Dong Kuk (DK), & Michael join as project students.

• Oct 2016: Wuge to speak at Bristol Science Club.

• Oct 2016: Luisa Islas Flores Joins as a PDRA supported by CONACyT, BBSRC CBMNet, & P&G (with Eric Robles).

• Oct 2016: Charlotte accepts a PDRA position at University of Leiden to further pursue her passion for lipids & scattering (& augment her Dutch courage with local brews).   

• Oct 2016: Tim to join Diamond I22 as a PDRA Data Analyst.

• Sep 2016: Wuge to give a seminar at Krakow.

• Sep 2016: Eloise Creed, Ollie Hughes (jointly with PB), Liangzhi Li & Nick Taylor join as postgraduate research students.

• Sep 2016: Anna, Chris, Tim, Jacek, Charlotte & Wuge attends ECIS in Rome. 

• Aug 2016: Michael Greaves joins as an RSC summer scholar. 

• Aug 2016: Charlotte joins as a GSK PDRA. 

• Aug 2016: Wuge an invited speaker at European Adv Materials Congress.

• Jul 2016: Beatrice defends her PhD thesis (vs P. Bartlett & Stuart Clarke, Cambridge). 

• Jul 2016: Lizzie MRes research highlited at UoB News, BBC News online, BBCPoints West lunchtime, BBC Points West evening, ITV West, Bristol 24/7, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, The Post, Western Daily Press (print) & Heart FM.​

• Jul 2016: Anna wins Best Poster prize at 2016 Bristol Colloids Day.​

• Jul 2016: Laura, Patryk & Wuge are guest scientists at EPSRC XMas School Trip.

• July 2016: Abinash Tripathy Joins as  a Newton-Bhaba PhD Fellow & Azad Erman joins as a summer scholar from ​University Paris-Est Créteil supported by a BBSRC CBMNet summer scholarship.

• Jul 2016: Anna, Chris, Laura, Magda, Patryk & Wuge perform XRR at ESRF.

• Jun 2016: Dr Thomas Dane joins as a visiting fellow.

• Jun 2016: Magda Włodek joins from Krakow as Erasmus visiting PhD student. 

• Jun 2016: Alex, Patryk & Wuge present at ACS Colloids, Harvard University.

• May 2016: Sarah Michel joins as a BCS CDT PhD student (with Carmen@OBC). 

• May 2016: Wuge to give a BPI Seminar , Cambridge.

• Apr 2016: Wuge comments on "Mouth-puckering molecule inspires fish-catching glove" at RSC chemistryworld.

• Apr 2016: Beatrice joins Alkermes, Ireland, after handing in her PhD thesis.

• Apr 2016: Laura Fox & Jacek Wasik join as BCFN PhD students.

• Apr 2016: Wuge lectures at COST School on Surface Analytical Techniques in Regensburg, Germany.

• Apr 2016: Patryk leads a synchrotron XRD experiment at Diamond.

• Mar 2016: Abinash Tripathy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) awarded a 6 month Newton-Bhaba PhD Fellowship to join the group in June.

• Mar 2016: Dr Fabien Dutertre joins as a PDRA on a GSK project (with P.Bartlet).

• Feb 2016: Beatrice & Charlotte's work is highlighted in XMas Newsletters.

• Feb 2016: Drs. Ben, Charlotte, & Tim graduate at Wills Memorial Hall.

• Jan 2016: Wuge gives invited seminar at Loughbough Chem Eng.

• Dec 2015: Anna leads XRR experiments at Diamond (with Chris, Patryk & Will) and NR at ILL (with Tim).

• Dec 2015: Charlotte's PhD work highlighted in Dec 2015 ESRF Newsletter.

• Dec 2015: Tim defends his PhD thesis (vs. Charl Faul & Jason Zhang).

• Nov 2015: Wuge to give an invited seminar at University of Geneva.

• Oct 2015: Tim starts his KTP Associate tenue in collaboration with Ecoegg.

• Oct 2015: Anna is awarded a COST CM1101 STMS fellowship to work in Sofia.

• Oct 2015: Lizze accepts an appointment from Snow Business.

• Oct 2015: Eloise, Ollie, Veronica & Will join as project students.

• Sep 2015: Dr Hua Wu joins the group as a Marie Curie fellow.

• Sep 2015: Wuge to deliver a keynote talk at ECIS 2015 in Bordeaux.

• Sep 2015: Chris leads an XRR experiment at ESRF ID10.

• Aug 2015: Charlotte defends her PhD thesis.

• July 2005: Dr Steve Uphill graduates at Wills Memorial Hall, & our project students Ash, Helen & Richard graduate with 1st Class Honours (MSc Chem)!

• July 2015: Alex wins a Best Talk prize & Anna Best Poster Prize at the Bristol Colloids & Soft Matter PhD Day.

• July 2015: Evie joins as a Nuffield summer scholar.

• July 2015: Chris leads an XRR experiment at ESRF BM28, Grenoble.

• June 2015: Mariana (Brazil) joins the group for a 2-month research placement as a Science without Borders research student.

• June 2015: Anna won the Best Poster Prize at 15th European Student Colloid Conference at Krakow, Poland.

• June, July 2015: Anna, Lizzie & Tim perform our first neutron reflectivity measurement at the air-water interface at ILL.

• June 2015: Wuge gives invited lecture at 5th International Friction Forum in Berlin.

• June 2015: Alex & Wuge (keynote) present at 89th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium in Pittsburgh.

• June 2015: Wuge speaks at XMas Users Meeting at Liverpool.

• June 2015: Anna, Chris, Lizzie, Patryk & Wuge attend 15th European Student Colloid Conference at Krakow.

• Sep 2015: Wuge to deliver a keynote talk at ECIS 2015 in Bordeaux.

• July 2015: Chris leads an XRR experiment at ESRF BM28, Grenoble.

• June 2015: Mariana (Brazil) joins the group for a 2-month research placement as a Science without Borders research student.

• June 2015: Anna won the Best Poster Prize at 15th European Student Colloid Conference at Krakow, Poland.

• June 2015: Anna & Lizzie reflecting neutrons at ILL

• June 2015: Wuge gives invited lecture at 5th International Friction Forum in Berlin.

• May 2015: Beatrice, Julia, Kathrin & Wuge present at IACIS 2015 Mainz.

• May 2015: NanoS3 Nanotech-Nanotox workshop in Paris: Charlotte an invited speaker & Wuge a coorganiser.

• Apr 2015: Anna, Beatrice, Patryk & Tim perform XRR at Diamond I07

• Apr 2015: Paola Martin joins from

• Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie in

• Rennes (E.N.S.C.R) as a placement student for 4 months.

• Apr 2015: Beatrice & Wuge visit Weizmann Institute for ERC project.

• Apr 2015: Wuge lectures at COST2015 in London.

• Apr 2015: Jo, Julia & Kathrin attend MCITN NanoS3 training in Budapest.

• Mar 2015: Lecture on "Depletion forces between particles immersed in nanofluids" at COST meeting at ICSM in Marcoule, France.

• Mar 2015: Wuge experiences Dutch courage at a PhD viva at Delft.

• Feb 2015: Helen & Richard won Best Talk prizes at Final Year presentations.

• Feb 2015: Dr. Hua Wu at Shanghai Jiao Tong University is awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to join the group.

• Feb 2015: Dr. Diana Costa at University of Beira Interior, Portugal will be co-hosted in our group for her 5-year postdoctoral project "Gene Therapy for Mitochondrial DNA disease"  funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science & Technology (FCT).

• Feb 2015: Lizzie & Wuge meet Ed Milliband at Snow Business meeting

• Feb 2015: Beatrice, Alex, Anna & Chris perform ESRF XRR experiment

• Feb 2015: Kathrin, Tim, Julia, Lizzie & Wuge perform Shear SAXS at Diamond

• Jan 2015: Georgia defends her PhD thesis.

• Jan 2015: Patryk Wasik joins the group as a BCFN PhD student.

• Jan 2015: Wuge to give an invited seminar in TU Berlin.

• Dec 2014: Tim, Kathrin, Chris, Anna, Helen, Richard & Wuge interrogate exotic macromolecules & kinky lipids at ESRF BM28.

• Dec 2014: Steve defends PhD thesis (Prof. Ding at Birmingham as external).

• Nov 2014: Georgia taking up a postdoc postion at Johns Hopkins University.

• Oct 2014: Ash, Helen, & Richard join group as final year project students. Ash awarded an Ecoegg scholarship.

• Oct 2014: Anna joins the group as a PhD student, supported by an EPSRC Case Award from P&G New Castle & Beijing Innovation Centre.

• Oct 2014: Lizzie starts an MRes project as supported by an EPSRC Impact Acceleration Proof of Principle Award with Snow Business.

• Sep 2014: Beatrice, Tim & Wuge present at ECIS 2014 in Cyprus.

• Aug 2014: Dr Phil Cresswell has recieved a "Faculty of Science Commendation for Excellence in a Doctoral Thesis". Phil joined Alkermes in Dublin as a research scientist last October.

• Aug 2014: We host Nuffield summer scholar Abigal.

• July 2014: Tim won Best Talk prize at Colloids Day symposium.

• July 2014: Laura Beckett joins the group as a PhD student from ACCIS. Franceska, Ollie and Alexander are new summer scholars.

• July 2014: Georgia & Wuge present at CM1101 meeting in Belgrade.

• Jun 2014: Charlotte, Georgia, Julia & Wuge attend ACS meeting in Philadelphia, USA, & Kathrin speaks at SIS in Coimbra, Portugal.

• Jun 2014: Poster prize for Beatrice at ESRF XMas User Meetin

• May 2014: Wuge speaks at XV Surface Force Conference (Moscow, May).

• May 2014: Julia receives Marie Curie travel grant for Cambridge meeting.

• May 2014: Tim receives an RSC/SCI Rideal busary to attend ECIS in Haifa.

• July 2014: Laura Beckett joins the group as a PhD student from ACCIS. Franceska, Ollie and Alexander are new summer scholars.

• July 2014: Georgia & Wuge present at CM1101 meeting in Belgrade.

• Jun 2014: Charlotte, Georgia, Julia & Wuge attend ACS meeting in Philadelphia, USA, & Kathrin speaks at SIS in Coimbra, Portugal.

• Jun 2014: Poster prize for Beatrice at ESRF XMas User Meeting

• Wuge speaks at XV Surface Force Conference (Moscow, May).

• May: Tim receives an RSC/SCI Rideal busary to attend ECIS in Haifa.

• May: Julia receives Marie Curie travel grant for Cambridge meeting.

• Alex, Johanna & Wuge (key note) present at COST CM1101 workshop on Particles at Liquid and Solid Interfaces in Italy on 31 Mar-2 Apr.

• New colloid book lays foundations for nanoscience.

• Mar: Beatrice, Julia, Tim, Chris & Wuge perform XRR measurements at ESRF beamline BM28; Georgia, Johanna, Charlotte & Alex scatter neutrons @ISIS!.

• Jen has accepted an offer from Accenture, & is off to Chicago.

• 19-25 Feb 2014:  Wuge gives an invited seminar in Japan.

• 27 Feb 2014:  Wuge gives an invited seminar at  Hull Chemistry.

• Jan 2014: Georgia awarded an RSC/SCI Rideal busary. >>

• 20-22 Jan 2014: Charlotte attends 1st International Symposium on Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials & Applications in Portugal.

• 7-10 Jan 2014: Johanna, Julia, Kathrin & Wuge present at Marie Curie ITN NanoS3 mid-term review meeting in Budapest. 

• Jan 2014: Tom's Soft Matter paper highlighted in ESRF Annual Report and an editor's hot paper!

• Dec 2013: UoB Research News on Ben's ACS Nano paper.

• Dec 2013: ESRF Newsletter front cover highlights Francesca's Soft Matter paper.

• English Winter 2013: Congratulations to Grace, Jen, Phil & Tom who have defended their PhD theses successfully! 

• Dec 2013: Beatrice, Charlotte, Johanna & Wuge conquer Swedish winter, while perfroming SAXS measurements at MAX Lab.

• Nov 2013: Tom is dusting up his liquipotence of French after accepting a postdoc offer at ESRF, Grenoble.

• Nov 2013: Phil's future looks increasingly "Castlely" after accepting a job as a research scientist at an American drug company Aklermes based in Dublin.

• Nov 2013: Grace returns to Nigeria to take up a lectureship. She had been handsomely accompanied by her son Joel for the past two years of her PhD study in Bristol.

• Nov 2013: Beatrice & Julia are both succesful in their application for synchrotron X-ray beamtime to ESRF.

• Oct 2013: Welcome to Christian Redeker who joins the group as a PhD student. Chris has previously undertaken his 4th year project and a summer project in our group, and he is an Everrett Scholar (as his PhD is funded by the Everrett Bequest)!

• Oct 2013: Alex's paper, plainly titled "Macromolecular and superamolecular chirality: A twist in the polymer tales" has been accepted for publicaiton as a Perspective in Polymer International.

• Sep 2013: Georgia has been awarded a COST STMT fellowship to spend 3 weeks at Aarhus University in Denmark with Prof. Jan Pedersen to perform SAXS measurements on her dendrimer nanofluids.

• Sep 2013: Ben and Steve make oral presentations at ECIS conference in Sofia.

• Aug 2013: Tim weds Rachel on a lovely day in Clifton, Bristol!