\nOn the other hand, within three days of arriving in London to live, this conversation took place as a certain shock-haired gentleman was herded, surrounded by television cameras, towards the Tube:<\/p>\n
\nKate: “Who’s that, Rachel?” \nI’m so proud of her.<\/p>\n \nSophie, too, is settling in. It was her first day at school yesterday, and she was mobbed by her new classmates. They’re doing a project on Natural Disasters this half-term: this week it’s ‘Earthquakes’ but after that it’s ‘Volcanoes’. <\/p>\n \n“Oh,” Sophie said, “I stood on a volcano in Auckland.”<\/p>\n \n“Cool!” chorussed the class. “Impossible!” according to one smart-arse.<\/p>\n \n“It was dead<\/em>, duh,” Sophie said.<\/p>\n \n“Cool!” chorussed the class.<\/p>\n \nAlso yesterday I had coffee with Ishta’s wife, and talked about schools and how her son loves science (his science teacher is apparently amazing<\/em> if somewhat unconventional), and how it might be possible to get him or his class to see a real lab. In the afternoon I met up with a TV producer (thanks to Matt Brown), and talked about doing green-screen interviews for a graphics-heavy science TV show. <\/p>\n \nMy feet haven’t touched the ground. The only down-side is Vista’s propensity to lock me out because the ‘security log is full’ and to randomly reboot at least once a day. I really wish they’d let me connect my MBP to the network at work.<\/p>\n \nAnd a final difference. It does my cynical heart good to see this:<\/p>\n \n “It’s too bright,” Sophie said. “The sun won’t set!” I thought we had some sleep masks from the flight over (when, on a four-fifths empty 777, we had a row each and those of us who weren’t so excited that … Continue reading
\nRachel (12): “It’s the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.”
\nKate: “How do you know that?”
\nRachel: “I saw him on Top Gear<\/em>!”<\/p>\n![\"Happy](\"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/nature\/george.jpg\")
\nCry \u2018God for Harry, England, and St George!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"