Newsletter 2024

Some people are kind enough to send us newsletters. This is a return. Mostly, it is pointers to my blog posts.

We start with Christmas 2023, at Mother's for the usual festive relaxation, and then Mfd+J for New Year.

Early in January I bought a drone and now have 293+ rowing videoes of which Mays may be the most interesting.

At the end of February the Event of the Year happened: Miriam retired. In celebration of that, and my 60th, Mfd+J gave us a weekend in London. She had been four days a week for a few years; now she is none; it seems to suit her well; she keeps busy with her Piano and her Buddha.

In March we went up to Stanage and Froggatt for some climbing. We should do more of this (actually we got up to Stanage and Birchens in April, too). Following Daniel, I've started bouldering a lot more, to the detriment of my running. We also visited Oxford to see E, aware that her time there was growing short.

Since I was 60, in May Mother was inevitably 90; we had a weekend away to celebrate.

I continued my rowing; we went down one in the Town Bumps but this was a success.

For our summer holidays we went to the Ecrins to walk, climb rocks and mountains, play cards and Go, eat and be together. The top pic of this post is from then, just in case you've forgotten what we look like. After that the others went home and I wandered around for a bit.

When we got home I wrote up our uninspiring election.

Chronologically before that, but I'll put it here as it makes a nice ending, was Miranda graduating from Magdalen in Maths+Stats, and <sniffs away a tear> departing for the frozen North - Edinburgh - to take up a job with Natwest as a Data Scientist, or something like that; she is most recently doing prompt engineering. Daniel remains in Cambridge working for Darktrace, newly acquired by an Evil American private equity megacorp. I remain at Roku writing C++ in aid of televisions.

Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year to All.