Sunday/Rātapu
Today we got up early, went to a cafe and read The Sunday Times. We are both enjoying reading The Times and having time (ha ha). Then Bill had a catch up with Chris, and I walked to catch up with Chiara and Lachie for brunch. I walked past the canals with my bags, as after the catch up Bill was meeting me and we were training to Oxford (Paddington Station was next door to Beany Green where I met them).
I am not liking the polluted canal. No eels could live here.
It was so great to hear Lachie and Chiara's plans in full. Wow, what fun they are up to. They are coming to NZ for January and February. Lachie is planning to renovate a bus, with all his web server stuff as well, and wanting to store it somewhere. He will stay in NZ after February. He is talking to somebody about a project he could work on there at the same time. In September 2020 Chiara will go to Harvard to do a Ph.D in Anthropology (for seven years! Some of this is also in the field.) What she is actually doing is still to be finalised.
Lachie is looking to be somewhere near Chiara. He is sitting an exam you have to sit to apply for universities and Ph.D's in the next few weeks. He wants to get to a university in the New England area (Boston). It won't be Harvard.
Below Chiara and Lachie. Anna, you might spot something familiar about the dress Chiara is wearing!
Then we trained to Oxford.
Then we had dinner at The Trout pub in Oxford, am old favourite, with Bill's great friend Pete who is Australian and the founder of Genomics https://www.ipgroupplc.com/media/portfolio-news/2019/2019-06-10a. He was made a Sir this year https://www.well.ox.ac.uk/news/prof-peter-donnelly-recognised-with-knighthood.
He has 40 staff and has been living in Oxford since he was a student here at the same time as Bill. Bill and Pete thrashed around who might end up in the top four for Cricket World Cup. England, Australia and India for the top three places, and for the fourth place and a long way back NZ, Pakistan or Bangladesh. We talked about kids and politics. I have never seen Bill talk so much.
We are staying at The Head of the River before heading to Durham to see whether NZ will make the top four in the CWC. (The room is a bit nicer than staying in Bill's old college.)
