Back in Britain

Having recovered amazingly quickly from the flights back, I threw myself with gusto back into life in Cambridge. My officemate, Victoria's birthday was that night, so for a present we got her a book, "Freakonomics" by Stephen Levitt (he has a cool blog), which i read that afternoon to make sure it was OK. It was. The party was a corker too.


Went to London next day to have a quick look at London marathon, catch up with MJ & go to the Royal Academy,

to see the Jacob Ruisdael exhibition. Which was excellent. He was a really seminal painter of landscapes, who paved the way for the Constables, Corots and Monets who fully explored the possibilities of the genre.