Inspired by Melody’s yellow series, here is some yellow from Swarkestone:
The first blooms of spring have started to appear. The snowdrops have been out for a bit now and the rest of the bulbs have been leaping from the soil to join them.
We have had some nice spring weather recently and I decided to go exploring. I’d read about Froggatt Edge in the Peak District as a good spot for climbing. I found a spot to park on the side of the road and wandered through the forest and up the hillside until I came to the [...]
River and Sage had a Tae Kwon Do grading yesterday morning. Somehow 9:00am seems too early on a Sunday morning to get anywhere, but we made it only a few minutes late. Unfortunately, our local Starbucks doesn’t have the big boxes of coffee, so we had to make do with individual cups. [...]
The kids and I went to the National Space Centre in Leicester recently. There were quite a few interesting exhibits there, but the highlight was about human spaceflight. There are a series of interactive exhibits intended to simulate preparations for astronauts working at a lunar base. Sage has been learning about the Apollo 11 flight [...]
It was “Wear What You Dare” Day at school today. Sage dressed as the tooth fairy and River went as a cat.
There were some pretty great costumes. I wish I’d gotten some better pictures. It was like Halloween, but without the trick-or-treating. River’s friend Alex (aka Harry Potter) is just visible on the right.
River also [...]
Not too long ago, we went for a nice walk in the Peak District from the village of Hartington to Pilsbury. Hartington is a bucolic spot, famous as the home of the oldest continually operating creamery in England and source of about a quarter of the world supply of stilton cheese. It is a beautiful [...]
We recently celebrated the seventh anniversary of Sage’s birth.
We spent the day in London. We took the underground into Picadilly Circus and hopped on one of the tourist buses. We’ve been to London a handful of times now, but we’ve stayed underground and popped up at our destination like some burrowing mammal. It was fun [...]
There has been a lot of music in our house recently.
River and her friend Grace put together a duet for their school house performance called an “Evening with Tedder”. Apparently, they practiced during breaks at school. I was very impressed with their effort and I thought it came together pretty well, though they seem to [...]
One Christmas gift River was quite excited about was her sparring gear. Now that she has the kit officially certified by the Tae Kwon Do Association of Great Britain, she is allowed to spar during class. Watch out for that sidekick!
Sage has been doing quite well at TKD as well. She graded for her [...]
We took advantage of the snowfall on New Year’s Eve to visit Hospital Hill, the classic sledding hill from my childhood. The old state hospital is being renovated into mixed-use residential and commercial space, but the hill stills draws a crowd looking to fly at high speed down an enormous hill on flimsy pieces of [...]
