Allie. Canada.
I left her behind in the UK, where she was happy to spend time with aunts and grandparents and things. (And a text message from my sister let me know that Maddy(and the rest of my family) are just fine, and were a long way away from today's bombings. Now I have to keep my fingers crossed for my friends.)
I offered her the chance to travel on round the world with me, and she decided not to, which I think, given my work schedule, was in retrospect far and away the most sensible thing to do.
She'll turn eleven in late August.
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Off to Manila in the wee small hours of the morning.
More info on the Philippines signings seems to be emerging at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gaiman_fullybooked/message/31
and http://www.neilgaimanphilippines.tk/
It was a much quieter day today. Odd things that happened included looking up at lunchtime to find someone passing the restaurant was taking my photograph. Was given a pen, by a pen shop - Elephant and Coral - who feel that authors should get nice pens (this was a Pilot pen with the nib carved out of the barrel, and looks like it will be a lovely thing to write with).