Isle of Wight

 I'm back from a holiday on the Isle of Wight.  It was the second-to-last week of the school holidays for my kids, and we went with my parents, and my brother's family, to share a house in Cowes for a week, visiting different places on the Isle of Wight.  For excursions, we went to Blackgang Chine, a theme park in existence since the mid-19th century that I remember fondly from my own childhood trips to the Isle of Wight (albeit in the late-20th century), on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway - once part of an extensive rail network on the island, now largely removed - and Osborne house, one of Queen Victoria's principal residences.  

I had a lovely week away from work, and noticed no particular nuclear physics things to post about upon my return.  The Isle of Wight's scientific fame mainly lies, as far as I am aware, in the discovery of dinosaur fossils, in common with the nearby mainland Jurassic Coast. 

Here's a picture of one of my sons, Kit, with a professor from a Punch and Judy show in the grounds of Osborne House.