Question: What's the funniest thing you have done in your job so far ?

Joanna Barstow answered on 14 Nov 2019:

I bought an inflatable baby bath shaped like a duck using the department’s credit card!

There was a good reason for it. A friend and colleague who was good at sewing used a couple of cheap jumpers to make a cover for it, so it looked like comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (the comet Rosetta and Philae visited, which happens to be shaped like a duck). We then developed a ‘pin the lander on the comet’ activity for an open day.