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I pass by this door nearly every day. A few days ago Sam was counting the house numbers leading up to this door and when my footsteps passed from 39 to 40, I thought, “Oh, I should come take a picture of this door on my birthday.” So today I did. Right after I snapped the picture, a scruffly-looking fellow carrying a …

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A combination birthday and wedding anniversary outing: we attended the Brighton Theatre Group’s production of “Beauty and the Beast.”

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The view I had today during the glorious two hours that AC took Sam out to the park and I could lie in bed and be sick. Ok, there was nothing glorious about the sick part or the view, but the quiet was nice.

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Sam is already much better and so are her bears, thanks to her careful administrations of their asthma medicine. She made me several cups of (pretend) tea but so far I’m still the sickest of the lot.

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For my 40th birthday coming up in a few days I decided that I wanted to go see something really old. A 5000 year old prehistoric stone circle seemed like it should do the trick. However, there were some obstacles to today’s jaunt up to Salisbury and then over to Stonehenge. First, our train was canceled. Then it …

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This was the view out our living room window this morning.

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Sam and I each got to make a mosaic at the Mosaic Mad Romans workshop held at our weekly playgroup in Hove today. The “mad” part of it seemed to be that we had less than an hour to complete the detailed work, but it was all quite fun. We learned that the Mesopotamians invented mosaics long before the Romans came …

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This month’s country is Iceland. Sam requested it after hearing so much about the Eyjafjallajokull volcano that erupted in April and continues to spew. (And no, I still can’t pronounce the name, despite our Icelanic studies.) Today we made our own volcano. It’s the only one in the British isles! Sam named it “The Queen …

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New stamps courtesy of Grand-mère.

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