Joan Robinson was a fellow of the British Academy from 1958 to 1971. She was elected to an unofficial fellowship at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1962 and to a professorial fellowship in 1965. She became an honorary fellow of Girton in 1965, of Newnham in 1971 when she retired from her chair, and of King's College, Cambridge, in 1979. A strict vegetarian, in her later years she slept all year round in a small unheated hut, open on one side, at the bottom of her garden at 62 Grange Road, Cambridge. In spring the tits would wake her by pecking at her long grey hair for material for their nests.Nicer, I think, to be woken by your dog licking your hand but 'woken by nest-builders' (particularly if they sing while extracting your hair) is a good way to start the day.
On the subject of sleep (or lack of it, once you are chased by lawyers rather than small birds) I note Warwick Rothnie's post on Chiropedic Bedding Pty Ltd v Radburg Pty Ltd [2009] FCA 1163, in which Jessup J found that Chiropedic's design for a mattress and base was protected under the Designs Act 1906 (Cth) and had been infringed by some of Radburg's competing mattresses.
