Phone Photo 1

An 'alien' flower on Engliefield Road... noticed it on my way home from pub. This is proof that it wasn't a drunk hallucination after reading sci-fi.

Phone Photo 2

Design Week creation! A fabric-house creted with baseball-bat-sized knitting needles!

Phone Photo 3

Shop on Cross Street, Islington

Phone Photos 4 & 5

Lots of mini-trucks and scooters in Taiwan, but not quite like this....

Canada Day (with BMO.ca)

OK, so it is Canada Day and I have already missed the really big event because (here in England) it had to be held a day early so as not to interfere with the World Cup! How appropriate that the Canada Day London site describes the event thusly: The day will kick off at 2:00pm, when Trafalgar Square comes alive...

What do I care if England is playing Portugal? Not nearly enough apparently as C, a fellow Canadian here in London, who will be setting up a big screen on her patio so that those who don't want to miss the game will not boycott her Canada Day BBQ bash (to be held today) in favor of their local. "Local what?" you may be asking, "local supermarket? local fishmonger?" But this isn't an incomplete sentence. Local is not only an adjective, but also a noun (meaning nearest pub - correct me if this is an incorrect definition)!

Anyway, I have already been celebrating Canada with fellow Canadians. After spending about 30 minutes ranting to an English friend about how terrible British banking is (I know, I am terribly diplomatic), I ended up spending the early hours of my Canada Day (midnight to 1 am) discovering just how terrible Canadian banking is! But enough ranting...

There's no such thing as a Gruffalo

"What DO YOU WANT, Nadia?" I might well ask, although the book she has shoved in my hands is a good hint.



He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
Oh, and let's not forget...
knobbly knees and turned out toes and a poisonous wart on the end of his nose!

If you don't know what Nadia's favorite book it yet, click here.

Post Prague Posting

Tommy- this post is for you... since I didn't write enough about Prague to suit you, I decided to post a few very of the crap photos I didn't post in my web album and direct readers to view the even better one on Tommy Yang's blog!


This first pic is something you noticed on the street! I unfortunately cut of the Commmunism message in this one...


Last stop for coffee at vaguely Morocco inspired coffee house with ceiling light garden of the variety I someday hope to grow on the ceiling of somewhere I live.


This picture would be of you shopping in the place where you got picke-pocketed (not where I did).


And finally a really blurry attempt of one of us trying to take a group shot.

Too pretty not to post

Dear A,
Sorry, I couldn't come up with a better caption. And please don't get mad that I posted this here... It really is just too gorgeous to be lost in the non-visible storage of the archives of my web-based mail. I think you must be about the loveliest of Caltech rocket science geek brides! Not looking too geeky here! Can't wait til Copenhagen...