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 [...]
We had a great visit to Massachusetts squeezed in between Arizona and our return to the U.K. It was really nice to see so many of our friends and family. I only wish we could have stayed a little longer…
We arrived just in time for a New Year’s party at our house in Holyoke. The [...]
One of Gail’s friends in their neighborhood has a beautiful baby grand piano and she generously offered to let the kids come down the street to play one morning.
It was really nice to hear everyone play. Evie and Henry have been playing for a couple years now, I think, and are both excellent musicians.
They all [...]
It is a short walk from Gail and Dave’s Scottsdale house to the undeveloped desert. Piles of granite, remnants of ancient igneous intrusions, are scattered across the landscape. They just call out to be climbed!
Quite a few of us scrambled up the crack and made it atop this boulder.
I came back later with my rock [...]
