life: be born, eat lunch, publish...

happy birthday to bronwyn's sister carolyn, who had a birthday today, over the other side of the world—another reminder of being far from home. while on the subject of birthdays, a belated hiphappy bday to michael, whose birthday was on friday... hope you both had good days.

it was great to have friends rob and catherine over from canberra, bringing a little bit of home to us, while they are here in london for a conference. bronwyn was back on her feet but not 100%, so we stayed in today and had lunch “at ours” (as they are wont to say over here). being as it was the last day of wimbledon, it was virtually compulsory to have strawberries and cream, though we made the latter greek yoghurt, for the sake of the future cost to the nhs.

i may have had an article accepted last week, but rob's a considerable few steps better. rob's pictured here with his new book, recently published with this first copy picked up here in london this week just gone. well done rob! something for me to aspire to, perhaps?