Baby Daniel, William, David, Jacob, Russell, James or is it Leo is born!

Hi All,
Today at 1030am US Central time our baby was born.  At 18 days ahead of schedule we are having difficulty with the name and even a spare 6 hours in the car driving up from Monterrey today didn’t change anything.  Anyway, he came in at 49cm and 2.98kg.  Elena is doing well, she just [...]

Too many smokers in Moscow

The proportion of people who smoke in Moscow (probarbly all of Russian actually) seems much higher than it is.  I live overlooking a metro station in central Moscow and (depending on the time of day) the proportion of smokers Vs non smokers is about 60 / 40!  Really, it is!  I can explain though.
As smoking [...]

Start of authodontic treatment!!!!

Well it has started early. As Richard’s milk teeth have been dropping they have been replaced by not only game boy games from the tooth fairy but also crooked shiny new big teeth. On a recent visit to the dentist we were advised to start using an appliance called a T4k Trainer.

As advised we started [...]