Yesterday, we celebrated Molly’s birthday, attending a performance by the English National Ballet of “Angelina’s Star Performance“. Afterward, we had a brilliant time whirling around on a Ferris wheel in the city center.
The aerial view of Derby was beautiful, too.
Sage and I went to the park on Saturday afternoon while River went to a netball birthday party for one of her friends. The Mundy Play Centre at Markeaton Park offers a variety of activities for kids. We played 18 holes of Crazy Golf, climbed on the spider web thing, and did some [...]
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 [...]
I’ve edited this posted because I’ve had some concerns that I might have inadvertently violated some copyright laws. Apparently, you are not allowed to photograph or video anything associated with the Premiership football clubs and as their stadiums are private property they are within their rights to prohibit photography. I discovered this after [...]
The sun was shining and the wind was blowing as I walked in the Dovedale yesterday.
Here I am at Lover’s Leap! The stone steps leading up to this outcrop contained myriad crinoid fossils. Apparently, this part of Derbyshire was part of a warm, shallow sea just north of the equator about 300 million [...]
There is so much history in England, but we don’t need to travel far to find it. The village of Swarkestone has been occupied for at least 4,000 years as evidence from the burial mounds of the Bronze Age “Beaker” people across from our house demonstrates. Apparently, there is also evidence of [...]
We went to the open air skating rink in the Derby marketplace today. Sage had a wonderful time skating between Molly and myself. We let her lag behind a little and then swing her forward. We all thought it was great fun. River tried it a few times, but we didn’t [...]
Yesterday, we were having a picnic near the Derby cathedral between swimming and a Viking program organized by the the local home ed group, when we saw a peregrine falcon sitting on the nest platform on the cathedral tower. We were inspired to check out the webcams that were placed in the tower this [...]
Molly’s aunt Marsha and her friends came to visit this afternoon. She is in the country for work and is our first visitor. We went to Calke Abbey, one of the historic homes managed by the Britain’s National Trust organization.
The house is pretty incredible. It fell into decline around the beginning of [...]
On Friday, we went to an children’s event at the local museum. There were lots of kids there; if fact, it was a bit crowded. The event itself was lackluster, but the museum seems pretty nice. They have collections of local Derby porcelain, Egyptian artifacts, paintings, and local biology and geology. [...]
