List of Updates

• We've discovered that there may be a problem with getting US visas sorted out for Robin. That means that there is a possibility that we will end up staying in Edinburgh after all - we are planning to go talk to someone at the American consulate next week and will know then (hopefully.)

• Also next week, we'll be moving into our new flat, just in time for Robin's play (Broken Holmes.) We won't have internet, but we should be able to find free wifi at some point.

• Star seems to have taken a break from drawing comics. Instead, she's been working on scripts, cartoons and a novel, and drawing lots of dragons.

• I've finally started submitting poetry to publications.
  

• To make myself start composing, I'm writing one piece a day (for this week anyway) and posting it. They are really short and aren't great compositions, but I need to get myself writing again.

We're Getting Married! (And Other Updates)

Robin and I can now officially announce that we are getting married. The tentative plans, assuming visas and everything work out the way we hope - January 23rd on the Marin side of Golden Gate Bridge, followed by a bicycle procession over the bridge to wherever our flat may be (yes, this means we plan to move back to San Francisco.)


Other Updates

Robin is working on the last-minute details of Broken Holmes.

We made a trip to Herefordshire, where I met some more of Robin's family. Pictures from that:

From left to right: Ian, Stephen, Sandi, Paul, Sally, Twiz, Evan

Star demonstrating her ballerina-like grace

Star debating on whether she wanted to play croquet or not

How Star passed the time...

On the long drive back to Callander

Sally and Star on a tour of nearby lochs

Another loch

Magi - A wonderful man with a beautiful singing voice.

Also, we recently found out that Debbie, one of the hosts we stayed with in France, has passed away. Debbie was a remarkable woman, and our thoughts are with her husband, Pete.