Uncle Dave makes the editor's cut

I have a confession to make. For the past few months, since we started this blog, at every opportunity and through every medium I have been telling everyone I know to check it out. Friends, family, colleagues and even an advertiser for a publication I edited last year (she was about to have a baby). So, it is gratifying that not only are people reading and commenting, but the public are clamouring to get themselves on to the site.

Dave/Shorty is the latest to be published, at least partly because of his unbridled and encouraging enthusiasm for the blog and Kirin. I first met Englishman Dave at McGill in 1994-95. He was doing a Master's degree in law and we got to know each other playing volleyball. We share the ignominious honour of not quite making the university volleyball team (clearly it was a fix). When I came to London in 1997, he was one of the few people I knew here who wasn't related to me and we have become good friends.

Dave and his lovely wife, Cath, are expecting their first child any day now (you may be noticing a trend here, but we are of that age). Good luck and welcome to cyberspace!

NB - Kirin looks a bit startled in the photo because of the flash, not because Uncle Dave is squeezing him too tightly.