2010 Photo365

5 April 2010 Groyne

Apr 5, 2010

4 April 2010 Easter Egg Hunt at Devil’s Dyke

Apr 4, 2010

Legend has it the Devil dug the Dyke so he could fill it with water and flood the churches of West Sussex. But his noise awoke an old woman who lit a candle. A rooster saw the light and crowed, and the devil, hearing the cock crow, believed it was morning and ran off, leaving his trench unfinished. He’s not been back …

3 April 2010 Waves

Apr 3, 2010

2 April 2010 Good Friday

Apr 2, 2010

It didn’t start out good. I went to the post office to buy stamps for a letter I really needed to mail and it was closed. I was dumbstruck for a minute. But it’s Friday? Good Friday. That’s a “bank holiday” in the UK. Apparently a postal one as well. Then I went to the grocery store and got caught in a downpour. It was …

1 April 2010 Hove Museum Lunch

Apr 1, 2010

After touring “The Wizard’s Attic” at the Hove Museum, Sam had lunch with two of her new Brighton pals.

31 March 2010 Calentita

Mar 31, 2010

For the last day of March and the last day of our Gibraltar studies, we made Gibraltar’s national dish: calentita. It was a good recipe for a 4 year old to handle. There are just four ingredients–chick pea flour, water, salt & pepper. Mix that up (250 grams of flour to 1 liter of water) and pour in a pan coated …

30 March 2010 Sliding into Easter Hols

Mar 30, 2010

Instructor David watches Sam as she comes down the big bouncy slide at B&H Gymnastics Club. They set the inflatable slide up as a treat for the kids since this week begins the Easter Holiday, or “Easter Hols.” I love the ways that different languages truncate certain words and expressions. My favorite English ones …

29 March 2010 Rainy Sea

Mar 29, 2010

The view from the living room of our flat on a rainy Monday.

28 March 2010 Brighton Dome Theatre

Mar 28, 2010

This afternoon I took Sam to see a one-man show called “How the Koala Learnt to Hug.” And yes, that’s not a typo: “learnt” is the acceptable past participle for “learn” in British English, and also, unsurprisingly, in Australian English. Steven Lee, the one man of the one-man show, is Australian and so we spent an …

27 March 2010 Back into the Wild

Mar 27, 2010

We took AC up to the Moulsecoomb Wild Park today so he could see it and the crazy ladder course for himself. After clambering around some and imagining what he would have to do to his mountain bike to make it survive the course, he said, “Now I can see why they call it the Wild Park.”