We left early last Saturday to join a walking tour of Canterbury with some Sacketts convened for the annual reunion organized by the Sackett Family Association. Many of Molly’s distant cousins had been meeting all week, exploring the area around where the Sackett family originated in the Isle of Thanet, Kent.
It was interesting to learn [...]
I always enjoy learning new vocabulary. According to wikipedia, exeat means “a period of absence from a centre of learning… [used] in Britain to describe weekend leave from a boarding school”.
The kids both had special activities at school on Friday to kick off the long weekend. Sage and her classmates sold cakes for [...]
Sage has been interested in cooking recently. She’s particularly excited about cookies and pancakes and other things that need to be mixed and stirred and generally turn out to be fairly sweet. Her enthusiasm fit nicely with the request to bring cakes into school for a charity coffee morning. She picked the recipe out from [...]
Travelling in France was a terrific experience. I found the people to be very almost universally friendly and helpful and patient with my horrendous French. Though I learned a bit in school, I’ve spent a lot more time and energy recently developing my Spanish. Frustratingly, I found myself inserting Spanish vocabulary into [...]
I’ve been doing some gardening recently. I converted a patch of grass into a garden bed a while back. The vegetables have been growing nicely.
We’ve eaten lettuce out of the garden several times now. River decided we should put the marigold pot in the garden instead of on the wall by the [...]
River has been conducting some polls of friends and family recently and compiled the results today.
Chocolate, by the way, was a popular write-in candidate and thus added to the survey. She made the graphs at the National Center for Education Statistics’ Create-A-Graph website. If you’d like to be added to her email list [...]
Molly and Sage have both been quite ill with a vicious flu this week. River and I haven’t succumbed yet; hopefully the worst of that affliction is past. In the midst of her febrile state, Molly managed to pass the pre-grading test for her black belt in Tae Kwon Do. She has [...]
We went walking at Kedleston Hall today. The house is closed for the winter; I imagine it is prohibitively expense to heat these huge old mansions. The grounds are very beautiful and there are several nice walking routes. There are sheep in the fields and some nice water features. The [...]
Another thing I enjoyed about Barcelona was the coffee. There’s expresso machines on every corner. There’s nothing like starting your day with a double expresso and a fresh croissant.
In the old section of town where we were staying, there were a couple of little grocery shops on each block. The selection of [...]
