This is a watercolour portrait I did in October 2006 for Marco’s 16th birthday. As it was a surprise, I painted it from a photograph I found at my mother’s house in Argentina.

I have spent the past two months in Argentina, were my husband and his parents joined me later in November. As we expected, the two families got on very well and we had a lovely time all together.It was the first time that my inlaws visited the country and they were delighted with it. The quality (and quantity) of the food, the level of service, the weather, etc. were what surprised them the most.

One Sunday, we got all together at an estancia (= in Argentina, this is the equivalent of an American ‘ranch’) where Robin and me made our vows to each other (again!), and my Mummy, Robin, and Robin’s father made their speeches in a very small chapel and behind two bales of hay. The family and some other people witnessed the event, and then we all had an asado criollo with wine, folk music and dances.

The vows

The Chapel

The following day, my Mummy, Mary, Freddie, Robin and me started a trip to Bariloche. For those who have never been there, it is a kind of Lake District but in ‘Argentine’ scale, and it would be impossible to describe its beauty in words. Photos do not make justice.

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 There is a new kind of search engine that offers refined  results once users start engaging with the results. Every click refines the search strings, creating a responsive, dynamic result that is both customized and highly relevant. 

Buzzclouds are a list of search tags that are popular or recently typed into the swicki. It is a bit like overhearing your community’s conversation at a water cooler - the buzzcloud shows what is going on in their searches. This is useful as it drives more traffic by surfacing what is already at the top of your users’ minds, and suggesting interesting things to look at.

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Just click on this link , copy the code and paste it onto your site.

This is a very interesting addition, because this search engine ‘learns’ with every new query, and you - as a community member - can also suggest new terms to be added and collaborate to focus the results.