First of all the picture. Happens to be hanging in my room here and takes me back to reading and watching the Babar stories with Marthese and Beth - when they were very little of course! The promised pic of the front of the B and B is in the album. Another delicious breakfast , then Jerry picked me up to head to Boston College. I have to pinch myself to realise that I am getting one to one access to one of the world's foremost authorities in my area of interest...

Astute readers will recall my raining against the SYSTEM a few days ago. Did you know there is a SYSTEM that goes with longhaul air travel as well? I think it was borrowed from poultry farmers - and I don't mean the free range ones! QF007 - an auspicious number - left Sydney at 1.50pm. Within 90 minutes we had been fed. Presumably because we were flying into the night, they dimmed the lights by about 8pm Sydney time and we all dutifully pretended to go to sle...