Brighton UK

9 August 2010 Care Package

Aug 9, 2010

From Mom-Mom and Granddaddy. We are in Trader Joe’s heaven.

8 August 2010 Tidepools

Aug 8, 2010

Just east of Rottingdean.

7 August 2010 Gay Pride Parade

Aug 7, 2010

Brighton & Hove is host to the largest pride parade in the UK every year. We stepped out to catch a bit of the parade hoopla: lots of feather, lots of pink, lots of drag queens, lots of pirates. It reminded me of New Orleans. We saw one particular swashbuckling pirate leave the parade and then later, we saw the …

6 August 2010 AprÃ¨s French Club

Aug 6, 2010

AprÃ¨s le cours, le dÃ©luge.

In Which We Bicycle to the 100 Aker Wood

Aug 6, 2010

When we very first came to Brighton for a short stay at the end of 2008, we looked into going to Pooh Corner and Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, the stomping grounds of A.A. Milne’s son Christopher Robin, and inspiration for many of the stories and landmarks in Winnie the Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928). …

5 August 2010 Pigeons at the Well

Aug 5, 2010

One of Sam’s favorite activities at any park is chasing pigeons and gulls. The pigeons at St. Ann’s Well Gardens are quite fat and she gave these birds a workout.

4 August 2010 Lemurs

Aug 4, 2010

A dozen lemurs so far and the ranks keep swelling. Our “Country Club” took the month of June off, and then Sam selected Madagascar for July’s country, possibly because she wanted to watch the eponymous film (which we did). But Madagascar is seeping into August, thanks to this lemur craft we did last week. Take a toilet …

3 August 2010 Fire Alarm at Dawn

Aug 3, 2010

Or shortly thereafter. It was before 6AM which is really too early for either alarm or dawn. We live in a private residence on top of an old hotel, whose fire alarm has been rather twitchy lately.

2 August 2010 Ducklings 2 Badge

Aug 2, 2010

Today Sam was presented a certificate and badge for meeting the requirements for Ducklings 1 and 2 swim levels. In 10 weeks she went from being scared to let go of me in the water to trying to swim on her own, face in the water, without any buoyancy aid. The parents are quite pleased with her progress and the …

1 August 2010 Fields of Penshurst

Aug 1, 2010

Friends in London invited us to explore Kent with them this weekend, and so we took 3 trains to arrive at Leigh (sounds like Lye) and then set off on a 6-mile walk which took us past a castle, a village, a few streams, cows, sheep, oast houses, and fields and fields of tall, stiff wheat stalks wavering in crushed rows. …