For those of you who have read my earlier posts, thank you. Please bear with me as I try to get used to this new medium for me. For some years I have been curious about starting a blog, tried and failed under a couple of formats. Occasionally family and friends have said that my musings, which I have been regaling them with for some years, would be better done as blogs. Whether that is because they want to avoid my direct emails to them, or impose my thoughts on a wider audience, I do not know. Never the less I will continue until my thoughts and the desire to broadcast them cease. 

So although we are now in May the adventures that started in April continue. I watch with curiosity and fellow feeling the continuing story of the Boston bombings unfold and wonder how much that will permanently affect Boston, the celebration of Patriots Day, the Boston marathon, and the people caught up in the terrible consequences of the bombing. In the UK we are still well aware of the impact of the 7/7 bombings in London, the bus bomb was on the route I used to walk to work. I still often go past that spot which seems so oddly located adjacent to Tavistock Square, a well known small Park in London dedicated in many different ways to the idea of peace and the peace effort.

My home is still beset by the consequences of the water pipe under the house leaking and pushing water up in what is now 5 rooms. Currently we have 8 large and very noisy fans plus 1 dehumidifier drumming away in the house for as long as we can stand it each day. They are meant to be a very unwelcome part of our lives for two weeks. But we have a new water main and the old failed one abandoned. Our young cat Merlin finds this a real challenge to his and our normal quiet lives. 

And of course the events, joys and less welcome incidents of my North American adventure continue to pay and mature in my head.