A day in the life of an Astronomer on their birthday!

Today I am catching up on work related stuff, I’ve just returned from a great trip to Cyprus where I am currently setting up a science festival and schools national STEM fair, and some people might say hey its your birthday, relax and take a break but as the saying goes there is no rest for the wicked! Today so far has been a typical Monday, take Alex to school, catch up on emails and try and stay awake by drinking coffee. The highlight of today will be going to Nando’s later ( a Portugese franchised restaurant - selling my favourite custard pastries ) and ordering a birthday cake.
Now as a typical science communicator in times of a global economic crisis I know that the first thing to happen on a global level are funding cuts to front line services - typically science and technology are the first subjects to be cut - so I am buried deep in funding proposals to keep a number of projects going. In the UK we have already seen a number of services cut which were available to the public ranging from regional development agencies, education and information portals to civil society organisations ...