Thursday, 11 February 2010
snowsnowsnowsnowsnowsnowsnowsnowsnowsnow
Saturday, 6 February 2010
SNOWtimore
We are having a great visit down in Nashville, but are slightly disappointed to be missing the big snow. 20 inches already and current snowfall of 1-3 inches per hour in Baltimore. No idea if we will be able to fly back to Baltimore tomorrow (it seems unlikely at this point), so we will see!
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Snowtimore
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Snow Business like Show Business



What else is new? Mel is swimming lots at the MAC and has started her docent training at the Walters Art museum. We are enjoying getting stuck into the Gallery church. Megan (Manus's daughter) started crawling. Allegedly. I have actually yet to see it, so I suspect he is just trying to save face. On Thursday we are heading down to Nashville for the weekend - so that should be exciting! We'll report back on that in a while. Over and out.
Friday, 29 January 2010
January is almost done

Before I get ahead of myself, first up can I say how great it was to see everyone over Christmas. We had a great trip home, and saw a lot of a lot of people, so that was great. I had a fun and productive fortnight's work in Cardiff (one paper of results submitted yesterday) and that made it feel less like taking advantage to have a good long relax over Christmas. We had a white Christmas (woop), I made Thomas a snowman (for non English natives - 'I made a snowman for Thomas' - the alternative would be too cold), and we escaped in JAnuary just before the heaviest snow since the ice age. In other cold-related news, this weekend is the polar bear plunge in the Chesapeake, which I might get sponsored for next year. Amazing.
So what's going on in 2010? Mel's parents are visiting in March at Cherry Blossom time, Mark Potter and gf Charlotte are coming in July and I think my folks are coming in the autumn. Hopefully we'll get a car too. But maybe not that one.

These pics were taken on my freezing walk to a bus this morning. Brrrrrr.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
The Happy Christmas Post

Mel here. This is actually my first ever entry for this blog (contrary to popular opinion) and its purpose is to act as our 'Christmas letter' for 2009. If, after reading this, you feel desperate for even more Edden news and commentary, you can check out the older posts which Richard has been keeping since our return to Baltimore in September.
We are back in the UK for the Christmas period and last night I went to watch the Year 3 and 4 Christmas concert at Howell's Junior School in Cardiff.




Wishing you all a very peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love from Mel and Rich
Some Photos:

Unpacking our shipment! Very exciting after living with two plates and two bowls for two months!


A view across Baltimore harbour from our roof garden.
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Sunday Virus Blues
My baby she left me, da da da da dum,
The dog just left too, da da da da dum,
But my laptop's infection, da da da da dum,
is what's making me blue.
So, if the virus is posing as antivirus software, how do you know who to trust? Luckily Malwarebytes seemed to mop it up, after opening in Safe Mode with Networking and updating it...enough of that.
Thanksgiving in DC was awesome - thanks Justin and Irina. Food was lush, company great too. Friday we went out for lunch in the IMF building in DC, which has a cool fountain to run under... Alix made it first time (one more than Daddy in Baltimore!) and then got a faceful. Haha.
Disclaimer: my baby didn't leave me and I don't have a dog. Poetic licence, dahling.
The dog just left too, da da da da dum,
But my laptop's infection, da da da da dum,
is what's making me blue.
So, if the virus is posing as antivirus software, how do you know who to trust? Luckily Malwarebytes seemed to mop it up, after opening in Safe Mode with Networking and updating it...enough of that.
Thanksgiving in DC was awesome - thanks Justin and Irina. Food was lush, company great too. Friday we went out for lunch in the IMF building in DC, which has a cool fountain to run under... Alix made it first time (one more than Daddy in Baltimore!) and then got a faceful. Haha.

Disclaimer: my baby didn't leave me and I don't have a dog. Poetic licence, dahling.
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