Another long update post must remember to do…

Another long update post, must remember to do this more regularly!!!

So polywipes for our project still haven’t come in, but while we wait we are using spare supplies to see how long bacteria prevails on skeletal material. Unfortunately the results were a bit screwed up, so we have had to start again. On the bright side, despite the screwy results it looked like if there was anything on the bones it was gone after 24 hours, hopefully our repeat will show the same.

Also been very busy dealing with open days and work experiance students. On wednesday i think it was (Open day) we could barely do anything because of the prosepective new students and their families buzzing in and out asking questions. Had a workshop earlier last week as well, which was fun, teaching a class about how to build a biological profile from skeletal remains; some of the kids were really enthusiastic and eager, but as always there were a few who messed around and had me going up the wall!!!!!

Had a work experiance kid in with us for one day. His name was Luke, we showed him the bones and had him attempt to age, sex and calculate stature of one of the remains, and then showed him blood spatter and got our friend Hannah (Who is working with Dr Croxton on the composition of fingerprints) to talk about her project before we handed him back to Deborah for the afternoon, hope he had a good time.

All in all a busy and frustrating week, but i keep learning new tricks and tips and am still having a good time. Hopefully come wednesday i will have definitive results on the persistance of microbes on skeletal material (Just waiting overnight while the plates incubate) and possibly have our final supplies for the main project