Just had some correspondence with Efe Isilak, a bright spark who spent time in the lab a few years ago, who wanted to let us know that much as he loves science, he felt like he couldn’t spend his life in an indoor job – so of course he bought a farm! Took him a while to respond to my reply as he was out harvesting olives. I have a strong feeling that this is going go to well – but I made the mistake of forwarding his email to the lab, which invited everyone to come for a lab retreat…