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Happy Birthday Claudia Welcome home Canadians

Happy Birthday Claudia, hope you have a brilliant day......

Welcome home weary travellers, so happy to have you ALL back in the UK

Visiting the Mainsahs in Westchester county, NY

Kintashe

'Zanga in the huge Mainsah garden

We had a fabulous time introducing the girls to the Mainsah clan on the twins' grand tour which will shortly take us to London, Norfolk, Newcastle-under-Lyme (in August) and then on to Lusaka, hopefully all in the next few months. Chil celebrated her birthday with a barbecue and a combination of Ice Cream Cake and New York Cheesecake.

'Zanga, Wamaka, Kaela and Sunjo

Joel and Wamaka

Sunjo and Evaristus

More photos of the trip can be seen and downloaded here, and our on line gallery of the girls is here.

I will upload Kintashe, Sunjo and 'Zanga's video shortly, it's still a work in progress but in the mean time here's a video of the eclipse we were talking about:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/22/longest-total-solar-eclipse-21st-century

Dylan

Happy Birthday To Chil!

Wishing you a most excellent day Chil - we'll be thinking of you :)

Lots of love,

bill and claudia

I've Been Dreaming My Life

Dear All,

Just to let you know that one of my photos is being hung in a gallery in Clerkenwell (called Host) as part of their summer exhibition. The picture is called 'I've Been Dreaming My Life' and is an infrared shot from the countryside in Perugia, Italy that Claudia and I visited at the beginning of the year.

Here's a small version of said picture:
(please note the colours are all the results of the film and the development, they have not been photoshopped)

Happy Canada Day!

The best thing about Canada Day for me is that I didn't have to go to work. Instead, we went for lunch with our friend Deborah, who also happens to have twins. The city of Toronto workers are on strike and there's no garbage collection. Fortunately, they didn't cancel the jazz festival.





Here are two little canucks celebrating the 142nd birthday of Canada in their own special way!

Dylan

Mum's visit to Toronto

These are some pictures of Mum's visit from a while ago because I misplaced some data when my Windows machine died.

This is our 'flatiron' building: 25 The Esplanade.


It was the first day of Summer on a week Sunday. It seems like the winter was a very long time ago now that it's very hot and sunny most days. In fact the current crisis is that all city workers in Toronto have gone on strike so there's been no rubbish collection for days: public bins are sealed with plastic wrapping and a sign saying "no littering". Some cold weather would actually be useful with all the rubbish buiding up! The Liquor Control Board of Ontario threatened a strike last week, which would have made the entire province practically dry as even restaurants and pubs buy alcohol from the LCBO. There was city wide panic buying on Friday, with hours of queueing for half empty shelves, but fortunately this disaster was averted at the last minute.

First video footage of the twins

When we got a new camera before the girls were born we chose one that shot HD video. We haven't got round to using it as much as we'd wanted to yet, but here's some footage of Mia and Ella from the first few months.



Dylan and Chil

Johanna visits

As it's been a long time since we've posted anything here (turns out it's busy having twins!) I thought I'd show some springtime pictures of us. Chil loves here B.O.B. stroller, you can't see the girls behind the sunscreen in the picture, but they can see out and it keeps the insects out and the UV off.

Chil's friend Johanna, the proud godmother, came to visit: her third trip to Toronto in 2 years. Winter has finally left us now so we took the ferry to Ward Island in Lake Ontario and had a walk in the sunshine.


Here's one of the twins, I have to admit from this angle it's hard to say which, looking at her favourite: Lionel the lion.

Happy Birthday to Dylan!

Many happy birthdays to young dilano.

Wishing you a very happy (albeit slightly older) day today from your slightly younger brother and from Claudia.

bb x