Easter Party Photos

Betty Jean had a wildly successful Easter Party. We organised egg decorating but Betty Jean got hungry and started crunching through the shells to get to the boiled egg. Disgusting. We ate through about 4 dozen hot cross buns (or was that just me?).

We're very excited about our trip to Positano. We're staying at a villa named Villa Eunice which I think is a good omen. It is on top of a cliff they call the pineapple. We are at the very top. Lucie has decided to come with us which is going to be amazing.

Back in Queen's Park, Vangelica has been to visit. Such laughs. What a free spirit. And smart too. Not such a common combination. I am having a little birthday party tomorrow. Julian is going to make lemon drizzle cake. I am going for my yearly dermabrasion today which I am very excited about.

Betty Jean is still not close to talking but she understands lots. She has also developed a habit of waving to all motorbike riders. She waves so much and for so long that she has them wondering if they have fathered any illegitimate babies in the area I am sure.

Here are the pics of Betty Jean's Gang. Matteo, Iona, Myrna, and Iyla.

Good news - the world won't end in mid 2008!

Pregnancy does some strange things to your anxiety levels. It makes you wonder incessantly what the future holds, and whether the world will be worth living in. The question of whether the Large Hadron Collider will bring an end to the earth or indeed the universe by creating a stable black hole or another big bang has been occupying my mind lately. Here Mike from CERN allays my fears. And well.


Hi Rebecca,

Don't worry - the end isn't nigh! On a sub-atomic scale, the energies of
our protons are pretty high, but in fact they are equivalent to the
energy of a gently moving fly. So on a cosmological scale it's pretty
small, so no chance of us ripping space-time apart.

The second argument is that the universe has some high energy particle
factories (supernova etc.). Particles from these sources (cosmic rays)
have energies a lot higher than those at the LHC, and some of them hit
the molecules of the upper atmosphere all the time, with no problems
observed.

All the best with your new baby.

Mike Lamont
CERN

from Troyes to Queen's Park

We took BJ to the Zoo back in Feb. It was a dead quiet Tuesday afternoon and all the zookeepers were terribly bored so brought us ferrets to pat and arranged an impromptu show of the African birds feeding mid flight. It was great fun, but BJ slept most of the afternoon and missed out on seeing Ursula the bear.

Mum and Dad kindly minded Betty Jean while they were here so we could gallavant around Troyes and pretend we were childless. I almost convinced myself, but we missed her by the third day.

In true suburban style, we bought lawn. Unheard of these days in Australia. It's so fun being able to sit out there in the sun. I think the chickens have now lost the upper hand finally. They're in the garden beds and the lawn is again just for us. We bought some cloches so they can't eat our vegetables. I planted all our our March seeds, but I can't remember what most of them are. It's going to be interesting come Summer.