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For those of you that didn’t get a card from us this year – but should have – we apologize.

But here’s what you would’ve received – Merry Christmas everybody!

I’ve put a few up in the December folder already – and there will be more after Christmas. Here he is outside Grant’s Tomb in upper Manhattan while his grandparents were over from London.
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We were out and about a bit last month, including a trip down to Florida for Thanksgiving, where we saw stuff like this

and did stuff like this (note the hat in the off-season):

And then, to keep it real, we hung out on the roof – back in our manor:

All in a month’s work.
Anyway, all of November’s pics we deem fit to print, are here, and as usual you’ll have to log in to see them so if you need a password etc, email us.

I’m trying to get back on track with pictures – we keep taking them but not sharing them.

At the year’s end it seems appropriate to catch up and so here’s on from October and here’s the rest.

As usual you’ll have to log in to see them so if you need a password etc, email us.

It’s modest, it was bought on a slightly grotty bit of 2nd Ave, but it’s been decorated by the kids (with a little help from their grandparents from England). Here it is, while they sleep on the other side of the wall.

No matter what restrictions large media organizations put in place, there’s still people smart enough to do an end-run around them that harms nobody.

Therefore you can listen to the BBC’s live commentary of the Ashes series here (at least for now). And why not?

Construction in New York, as anyone here knows, is a crazy business – especially building narrow apartment buildings in a gap no larger than the building will eventually occupy – “sliver construction,” as the foreman told me it was called the other day as we waited for his colleagues to swing another girder over our heads into the hole.

Well now they’ve gotten themselves a real crane, we have this thing towering over us, and from our roof, it looks like it has designs on a local landmark.

We took a tour of Craven Cottage, the home of Fulham FC last Christmas and I never got round to posting the pictures – it was a bit rainy so we’ll probably do it again when the weather was better and more conducive to photography.

But on the day they play a crucial London derby that they need to win, I thought I’d share this picture of the dressing room door the players go through to get to the pitch.

One day I’d like a door like that, wonder what the wife would say…..

…two different scenarios.

Walking to school first thing this morning, upon meeting one of Big Boy’s teachers, who informed me that “he read the whole of the ‘Cat in the Hat’ to me yesterday.”

Not bad for a 4-y-o. Plus, it means we don’t have to go through that one for a while, as it’s never been a favorite of mine!

And then more fodder for those that, outrageously suggest that irony isn’t, ahem, fully understood by some people, at least in Texas, when you read about this couple from Houston, TX, who want Farenheit 451 – a book close to my heart – taken out of the classroom because, it’s “filth,” and because the book’s material goes against their religious beliefs. Well, hey, that’s enough for me!

“If they can’t find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn’t have a book at all,” says one of them, apparently with a straight face.

The article notes that, “Alton Verm’s request to ban “Fahrenheit 451” came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week. He and Hines said the request to ban “Fahrenheit 451,” a book about book burning, during Banned Books Weeks is a coincidence.”

You couldn’t make it up.

Or perhaps it comes as no surprise whatsoever given what else is going on.

We had a great time in Maine at the end of August/start of September. It was our first time there, but definitely not the last. We stayed in a house on Newbury Neck, looking out on Morgan Bay. We visited Bangor, Blue Hill peninsula, Ellsworth (the nearest town), Bar Harbor, Brooklin and Acadia National Park, include an afternoon cycling round Eagle Lake there and two trips up Cadillac Mountain, one in the mist and one in the sunshine.

Took far too many pictures, but I’ve picked a bunch that sum up the time we had and this lot mostly involved the kids. Later, I’ll put some up of the scenery around there, because a lot of it is stunning. This one sort of gives you an idea:

Anyway the first lot are in the kids’ August 2006 album, usual password etc required.