World Tour

Here is a representative sample of the different tickets required by Bluet and ourselves to travel over the last few weeks. You will observe plane tickets (required to get to and from theUK), bus tickets (required to get to and from Newmachar, and from Cambridge station to Bluet's Gran's house) and train tickets (lots, required to get everywhere else).

But I guess that is what you need if you want to embark on a world tour such as Bluet's. Along the way, the tour took her to places such as Aberdeen. Here she met some of her fans, including Martin and Gina, pictured below with Uncle Nick and Bluet. Martin and Gina are old family friends, as well as heroes in the noble fight against the ignoble Donald Trump and his plans to destroy the coast of North East Scotland by building a golf course, just because his mother was Scotch. 

They had a car (no ticket required) and took us on a brief drive from Newmachar to visit Fyvie Castle. It was a gloriously beautiful sunny snowy day. Whilst you cannot tell from the pictures, Bluet was thoroughly nonplussed by the castle. In fact it was probably her least favourite place we have ever taken her*. So sadly we shall not be moving into a Castle in the immediate future.

*either she hates castles or got hungry because we forgot to pack food for her. Difficult to tell.

Emily checks out the feel of entering your own Castle

Then it was back on the bus. Here is Bluet waiting at Newmachar Bus Stop in advance of a long train journey to York. In general, I think a good time was had by all in Aberdeen.

In more recent Bluet news, she has perfected rolling from back to front, and front to back. She rolls with ease, then rolls right back again. In this fashion she can slowly transverse the floor.

When not trying to walk or move in some way, Bluet also likes to practice talking. To my great delight she can say 'Da-Da' and 'Ba-Ba' so her first words (either Dad or Ben) can be only weeks away. She is also perfecting her debating skills - here Emily and Bluet discuss the finer points of Wittgenstein's philosophy of language:

Intense discussion at 225 East 79th Street by Ben Collins