Mum and Dad are in New Zealand at the moment, where Dad is on a jolly invitational lectureship, wowing the Kiwis, no doubt, in all matters mathematical philosophy and logic. Mum seems to be settling in too, in a whirl of coffee mornings, farmers markets and local Sauvignon. I think she’ll take to retirement quite [...]
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I’m afraid that Thanksgiving was rather overshadowed in our house by the excitements of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We got pretty hot and bothered by the new Dyson vacuum cleaner (ticks all my boxes: limited edition, “Apple Mac”-white, extraneous scientific rationale, an accessory for every eventuality) and ignored the founding fathers.
But I can’t [...]
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