Jan 19th 2009

Last week it was so cold here in Ottawa that we did not do any skiing or snow shoeing. We did go walking a few times.

Stayed in and read a book “Galileo’s Daughter” by Dava Sobel. It was on the New York Times Bestseller list. It was an excellent book, based on surviving letters from a daughter who was a nun.

We are also watching a BBC DVD production called “A History of Britain”, by Simon Schama. Simon can be a bit boring but the subject is interesting as both of us have ancestors from Britain. This is a production of the BBC and The History Channel and it seems to be well done.

Of course we are also watching the Barack Obama saga on CNN. The whole thing almost seems like the coronation of a Monarch!