This weekend I went down to see my family and friends in Fleet. The past week I have been in my own bubble - of interviews and press, telling Nazanin’s story to whoever I could to cameras and reporters all around the world. And I did not really watch myself back – since it was emotionally easier not to, than to deal with the scale of everything. But that means I did a lot more talking than listening. So it was good for me to see everyone in a normal context this weekend. Some of my oldest friends in the evening, and a big family gathering yesterday, of my brothers and sister, aunts and cousins and all their partners – just to be together. But also to catch up with what everyone is doing. Far more it turns out than I was possibly aware of. And in a way that matters far more than I can put into words. The story I have told this week is of Nazanin, Gabriella and me. But there is a much wider family affected, of relatives and friends doing their best for us. And they are such a part of the reason we have reached 400, 000 people. There was a practical side: Last week was a frenetic sense of everyone doing whatever we could think of, buoyed by the enormous support the petition is receiving, and the hope that has given to us all. So the gathering was just to talk about what we could each do as individuals and how that might fit together to help Nazanin. It is a steep learning curve for all of us, so we shall see how it does. We agreed two things: One that we will take the petition to Downing Street on Thursday to ask the government to do more – the amazing truth is we have over 400,000 signatures (in English alone) in a week. My mother and father will accompany me, along with Nazanin’s boss at Thomson Reuters Foundation, Monique Villa, Nazanin’s MP, Tulip Siddiq, Change.org, and the son of Kamal Foroughi, who I met before we went public, and who is leading a similar, dignified campaign on behalf of his 76 year old father. The second point the family wanted me to clarify the level of Foreign Office support for us, which the newspapers have been reporting, and which I hadn’t really clarified in my bubble. So for the record, the caseworker staff have indeed been supportive over the phone. However, this meeting we have next Wednesday will actually be the first time anyone in the family (including me) has met in person anyone from the Foreign Office to discuss Nazanin’s or Gabriella’s case. Even this meeting has happened at the family’s initiative, and only after we have gone public. It will be held on day 45 of Nazanin’s and Gabriella’s detention and separation. It will also be the first time we have been given a clear briefing by the Foreign Office over what they have done and what they know. So there are probably are questions to ask on Wednesday about just how important Gabriella and Nazanin have been. As well as the more important ones about what the government can do now. Since the visit, there has been no news from Nazanin.