We spent some time last night skipping rope. Sage has gotten quite good at it. Apparently, it has been something of a craze among the kids in her class at school. She’s the current record holder at our house.
The kids finished school for the year last Friday. They both had sports [...]
Molly recently got back from a Tae Kwon Do workshop. It sounds like she had a great time. The workshop was in a beautiful spot on the southern coast of Spain. There was plenty of time to enjoy the water and the sun in between workouts.
Apparently, they did some TKD outside of the workshop as [...]
I accidentally awoke this morning just in time to see the sun rise for the first time after the solstice.
Apparently, about 30,000 people gathered at Stonehenge last night to celebrate this astronomical event. There are some interesting pictures from the BBC and on flickr if you want to get a sense of what it must [...]
River played her first rounders match yesterday. I was baffled by rounders at first. It is a bit like baseball, but different. Wikipedia has a nice description of rounders, if you’re interested in learning more about it. I thought River played well, from my impartial perspective, but they lost by half a rounder. I [...]
The flowers of summer are burgeoning. Swathes of poppies line the hedgerows, their scarlet blossoms brightening the fields.
Wild roses twine through the hawthorn, their fragrance wafting on the afternoon breeze.
And the grain is starting to ripen in the ubiquitous wheat fields.
We spent a beautiful weekend camping in the Peak District near Hartington. The weather was perfect and we enjoyed some fine company in gorgeous surroundings.
The kids were ready to go before we finished packing and spent some time on the swings waiting for us.
It isn’t particularly far to Hartington from Derby, but the [...]
Image by edwindejongh.
It has been relatively warm here the last few days and we’ve been sleeping with the window open. On Sunday night, we awoke to a sound something like this. It turns out Chester had been perched in the open window and had snagged a bat as it flew past. He [...]
I just saw that my old friend Chris has a new recording available. Check out some of the his music and perhaps order the cd at chrisjamison.com.
We miss you already!
We had a great time visiting some of the beautiful stately homes in Derbyshire with our visitors.
Kedleston Hall, the home of the Curzon family who was once the viceroy of India, was very interesting. Much of the architecture was designed in the neo-classical style by Robert Adam who was influenced by his Italian [...]
