Ric is the juggler :
	I can manage forward and reverse cascade but columns still defeat me. Schedules and deadlines are OK, though.
Ric and Jane sail a bit :
	This was a small sailing-cruiser we hired on Lake Windermere in 1998 in October (hence the heavy jacket). We mostly sail in dinghies. Ric has his RYA coastal skipper theory exams.
This is the one we sail now, a Tinker Traveller from Henshaw's inflatables.
Here we are at Carrick Roads about to get becalmed downstream on a falling tide. Lucky these things are easy to row...

Other shared interests:

Walking and Birdwatching

No, we're not twitchers... but we walk with binoculars (and sometimes a telescope) and we take an interest in what we see. We're members of the local RSPB group and of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, and Jane makes up returns for the British Trust for Ornithology's garden bird census.

Gardening

In 1999 we moved from a tiny garden plus allotment in Reading to a quarter of an acre in Norfolk. So far, we've put in a couple of new borders, replaced the old lawn outside the back door with a cottage garden, planted a small copse by the summer-house, put in some trellis screening, build a couple of obelisks for things to climb, one in the vegetable garden and the other as a focal point at one end of the lawn, put an arbour seat (with clematis, honeysuckle and sweet peas) at the other end of the lawn, sunk a pond into the flagged area next to the cottage garden and felled a couple of 35' eucalyptus trees. Since they were overcrowding a North-facing border, we're turning it over to hostas and ferns. Mainly.
We're about to replace a shed, put up another arbour and do something dramatic to the pergola, which is falling to bits. Watch this space...
Click here for some pictures of the garden

Ric's other interests:

Astronomy

I have two eight-inch reflecting telescopes, both home-made. The f/8 mirror was made by my grandfather and has "seen" Halley's comet at two returns, in 1910 and 1986. The f/4.5 mirror was made by me. This telescope was the subject of an article I wrote for the March '89 issue of Astronomy Now . (It was the first amateur telescope to make it onto the front cover of the magazine). I've been working on an 8 inch f-18 mirror for longer than I care to admit.

Photography

I still have the darkroom but these days I've gone digital, at least for snaps. When I want to take real pictures I still get the old Canon out.

Jane's other interests:

Pottery

Hand-made rather than thrown, but a good line in moulded dishes and slab pots.
...and Loch Ness monsters...

Cookery

The chick-pea and mushroom balti has to be tasted to be believed.. ;-)
The fish dishes are out of this world!

The daughters:

	Helen and Ann, who are old enough to have their own web sites, and Helen's (American) husband Jesse. All live in London. Helen is a physicist, Ann an archaeologist.
	When Ethan Andrews toured in England in 2002, Helen and Jesse supported him at the 12-bar club in London. These are a few stills from the film of the event.