Anton and Thor - Both Ways

On the Croziers' roof near Portabello

Bob and Gillian got back from Sardinia this week. We wandered over to their place on Saturday after going out to Greenwich to walk the line. We had drinks on the roof of their Blenheim Crescent flat overlooking the spice shop and the travel book store in Nottinghill Gate.

London

The Hoffs have come to London for a week of vacationing. We're staying at the Singh house in Golders Green and Paul had a week of work in Canary Wharf. Some of the spots visited during the week have been Parliament, Oxford Street, Tate Modern, British Museum, Tower of London and the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. We had a nice dinner with Sally Matthews and daughters Sophie and Lucy, afterwhich we attended the Fuerzabruta show at Roundhouse. During the week Naomi and the boys saw The Producers.

Izuvians in Singapore

Down in Sg for a conference. Roger the Izuvian was there! Got a shot with Olivier who is happily back in Singapore from Tokyo after quitting MSCI Barra. Now he's setting up Axioma in Asia. Also ran into John D'Abo who had stopped in on his way to Dubai. Don't we lead interesting lives?

Hanako's wedding

Back in April Hanako Tomimatsu got married. Her dad was pretty proud! I took a self portrait with her. Her husband managed to get in the picture.

Bolo Ties

I recently got motivated to make some bolo ties using old silver coins. My mother has given me a silver dollar her father got in Idaho during WWII when he was working as a carpenter building aircraft hangers. It is a Peace Dollar. I also have two Morgan silver dollars. I used the Peace dollar to make a bolo tie with materials I picked up at Tokyu Hands.

When looking around Ginza on the way to lunch with Bill one day I stopped in a coin shop and found that Japanese silver yen pieces from Meiji era are both very pretty and inexpensive. When I bought some high end bolo tie supplies from Utah I used them to make a 1912 Japanese silver yen bolo tie. Really nice! In a couple days I'll post a picture of the two.

Let me know if you want one too! I'll charge you double. Ha!

Paul