I spent yesterday wandering around Cambridge with Chris and his equally funny and fun girlfriend Lynn. I bought overpriced fudge from the fudge shop, took photographs of them in front of great lumps of English heritage and we browsed antiques. We had a bostin’ time. They also nudged me into a CD fair where I […]

This evening, driving home in the Spring sunshine from a seminar at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology I had the rare pleasure of leaning out of the window of the car and shouting “Awight, gorgeous?” at an attractive young woman and having her respond by waving at me and smiling. She was, of course, someone […]

When I was having dinner with Adrienne and Blaise and their friends a few days ago, A&B were teasing me that I was actually Jewish. Blaise really is Jewish; Adrienne just studied physics at The Weizmann 😉 . Yesterday I was reading an interview with James Watson, who used to be the director of The […]

If you like baby pics and/or the Grassly-Khalifehs, have a look at the photos from Maryam’s 1st birthday party.

Here's a picture of my friends Hind and Nicholas's baby daughter Maryam, munching the cake at her first birthday party—for no better reason than that I am particularly proud of the photograph.