Toly Pavlovsky-Meersmann

This wonderful young man is my friend Toly, the son of Thomas Meersmann and Galina Pavlovskaya. Thomas and Galina, who are based in Nottingham, UK, spent a 6 month sabbatical with us a few years ago, when Toly (Anatole) went to Te Aro School. Now they are back again to help us with our "hyperpolarization" setup, and Toly has given up part of his UK summer holidays to go back to Te Aro, where he has met up with old classmates.

Toly is a fine soccer player and when he arrived in New Zealand a few weeks ago, presented me with some precious soccer cards of two of our famous All Whites players, Ryan Nelson and Shane Smeltz. Here Toly is eating pizza at a birthday celebration which we held this week.

I have to admit, the birthday was mine. More on that in my next posting.

PS: Many apologies for a long silence. I have had my siblings visiting and have been rather pleasantly distracted.