Hi there. We'll try to chronicle some of our doings over the course of this year. The idea is that it will be interesting to people who know us but are not necessarily our immediate family. So we'll do our best to keep the "adorable kids" stories to a minimum. Anyway, welcome.
About the picture at the top of the screen. This is the "Bridge of Sighs" over the River Cam. The Cam is a shallow and rather narrow river that flows through the heart of Cambridge, and there are lots of picturesque bridges spanning it. This one, on the grounds of St. John's College, is probably the most famous. It's a replica of the original "Bridge of Sighs" in Venice. That bridge spans a canal and back in the day it connected two halves of a prison. The cells were on one side of the canal, the execution chamber on the other. Prisoners led over the Bridge of Sighs didn't come back. Hence the name.
Cambridge built a replica of the bridge, and so did Oxford. But the one at Oxford only spans a street. So this one looks more like the real thing. In the centuries-old battle between Oxford and Cambridge, these kinds of things matter.
