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You all know the first New Year's baby in your area gets publicity. How many twins are born on different months, days and years? Apparently, in Michigan, a set of twin boys were born, one just before midnight on Dec. 31, 2008 and one not long after, on Jan. 1, 2009. I have cousins, a single with twin sisters who are all three of them the same age for a few days in December. The twins turned 50 this year on Dec. 18 and their older sister turned 51 on Christmas Eve. Then there's an interracial couple in the UK who has had two sets of twins. Each set of twins has one that looks very fair with blue eyes like the mother and the other has darker skin and eyes like their father who is black. THey are, of course, fraternal twins. It's quite rare, though, to have two twins look so racially different and even more for the second set of twins in the same family to have the same look. I don't know a lot about genetics but i do find it so interesting to see how features come out in the children. A mix of both parents or predominantly one or the other and even gestures too, though perhaps that's just picked up by osmosis. Still, children not raised by a biological parent have been known to use the same gestures or laugh the same way. It's fascinating, really.

( wittering about what i've been doing )

So the new Doctor Who is going to be a 26 year old actor. I don't think i like the look of him, though in some ways he reminds me of David Tennant or maybe that's just the publicity photo they're using. He's similar in build though and he looks soooo young. I don't know his work so i don't know what he's going to be like. It's going to be jarring to get used to. I've got used to DT and he was quite good though i still prefer Ecclestone. I hope the new one will have a personality very different from DT's manic Doctor. We have a long time to wonder. Won't see his face on screen until the Christmas special.