Farewell to Ursula Le Guin

It's slightly strange to feel quite so upset by the death of someone you've never met, only admired from a distance. But when that person is Ursula Le Guin, and when she helped shape your childhood and the childhoods of many of your generation, perhaps it's makes a bit more sense...

Welcome to a new great nephew

Via my parents, the news that I have a new great nephew. According to my father, the hospital initially got the conversion from kilograms wrong and told my niece that his birth weight was 10lbs 10oz but they later revised this to a more plausible but still pretty substantial 9lbs 10oz.