Last Sunday, we went to Cresswell Crags, a limestone gorge in northeastern Derbyshire with a number of caves occupied by Ice Age people. We had to wear helmets with lights when we went on a tour of Robin Hood’s Cave. Apparently, there is no evidence that Robin Hood actually used this particular cave, but it [...]
We’ve all been very busy recently. Here are some of the piano pieces River has been playing recently. Actually, I think she’s just been playing these from one of her books rather than learning them for her lessons.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
The Can-Can
We had been learning Spanish in Massachusetts, but the kids have started French at Foremarke. [...]
I went to watch River play in her first hockey match this morning. They played a team from another nearby school. She was pleased to be asked to play on the team and I thought that she did pretty well picking up a new sport.
Fireworks are exploding in neighborhoods all over England today.
Most folk are either celebrating burning Catholics in effigy or that someone had a pretty good go at blowing up parliament, depending on their perspective.
But there is plenty to celebrate for those of us who are perhaps a mite less cynical than we were yesterday.
If there is [...]
