NYC: Travel bugs and strawberries

Two things I wanted to do on our Central Park day were visit Strawberry Fields and deal with John and Sam’s geocache travel bug. We’d found a geocache on the west side of the park and thought it would be a good opportunity to take the travel bug that John and Sam had found in [...]

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7 Days: Day 7 – Enough quantum physics for now

I spent today at Reading University with John, assisting him on a shoot for a video to illustrate an element of quantum computing: that atoms can be in two different places at the same time and my head can explode if I try and contemplate that any further. According to the professor for whom this [...]

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7 Days: Day 5 – And the (pretend) bride wore white

I used to love dressing up – specifically as a bride. Big skirts, big veils, I loved it. I remember saving up and buying silk flowers from which I made myself a bouquet. I even had pretend weddings and married both my brothers on various occasions. Hell, I even had bridesmaids (hi Sophie, hi Emily!). [...]

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Bath time

Mac computers have a very handy facility allowing you to label files and folders with one of seven different colours if you need to distinguish them somehow. With the last batch of photos I took of the twins I suddenly found this very handy. It’s all very well to know that Lily usually wears purple [...]

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In the meantime

Yes, I’m back from New York. It was fantastic and completely exhausting. I’ve been wearing tracksuit bottoms since I got back (until today that is, when I had to go out in public) as the exhaustion from travelling meant that buttons on my trousers were too much to contemplate. I could however just about summon [...]

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A Good Friday

We spent the first of this spring’s great offering of bank holidays with John, Sam and the littles. It was a beautiful sunny day, with summer time temperatures – hard to believe it was April, not August. While the babies napped I inspected John and Sam’s vegetable garden. They’ve got room to grow more variety [...]

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One week

We all made another trip to visit the new family yesterday. Mum and Dad had been the day before too, but as that particular visit had been initiated at 2am, I didn’t accompany them on that one. Sam had a problem with her c-section wound, which has fortunately turned out to be a couple of [...]

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