Canberra is cold. I am getting less jet lagged. I seem to have an internet connection. Slowly doth life return to normal. With all that is happening, I can feel six posts a day coming on.
UM: Well, so much for six posts a day. Amazing the amount of administrative stuff that gets […]

Iraq and casus belli: the nonsense we have to put with when people who probably should know better decide they want to score points, or make a claim to their own particular bit of moral highground, or whatever other stupid excuse they have for making deceitful statements.
That overrated novelist, Ian McKewan, let’s slip […]

So we did the midnight Harry Potter thing last night with several hundred others in the Books Etc. shop just down the road from where we are staying here in North London.
Funny thing is, Noah was by far the youngest person there and it seemed many more of the adult-cover versions (shrewd marketing) […]

Apologies for the lack of posting. Apart from finalising our move from Washington DC–and a million thanks to the people who helped with that–we’ve had a sickness in the family. Consequently, we haven’t managed to do half the last minute things we wanted to do, but that’s the way it goes. Suffice […]