Brighton UK

21 April 2010 Kilt and Tam o’Shanter

Apr 21, 2010

Molly Bear sports her new kilt and tam o’shanter, just in time for our trip to Scotland next week. Scotland is also our Country Club country this month. (That does feel like a bit of a cheat, but the opportunity was too good to pass up. Besides, this way I don’t have to cook anything like haggis.) Trip preparations and …

20 April 2010 Palmeira Square Bus Stop

Apr 20, 2010

I love these electronic displays at the bus stops in Brighton. (Though we were in Hove, actually.)

19 April 2010 Ballet Class

Apr 19, 2010

“Mom, why is my name up there?!” “Because they really want you to try out this ballet class?” Sam did her first ballet class at the Wendy Whatling School of Dance today. I just love the name. The combination of alliteration and the way the English pronounce the short vowel A in the last name makes it sound so… proper. …

18 April 2010 Brighton Marathon

Apr 18, 2010

View from our flat of runners coming down Kings Road, the home stretch of the marathon.

17 April 2010 Happy Birthday, AC!

Apr 17, 2010

AC sails into his birthday at the Brighton Marina. He is spending this weekend taking the level one Dingy RYA (Royal Yachting Association) course through Hove Lagoon Sports. Sam and I met him for lunch at the Marina and then watched him and the instructor and one other student motor their way out of the busy marina …

16 April 2010 Two Months Later

Apr 16, 2010

Our stuff arrived from California today!

15 April 2010 Around the World in 80 Crisps

Apr 15, 2010

The idea that Phileas Fogg–the calm, phlegmatic, almost robotic Englishman (as written by a Frenchman)–went around the world in 80 days only to land on a package of crisps cracks me up.

The Girl in the Windowsill

Apr 15, 2010

_Since it’s National Poetry month I’ve been reading Sam the poem of the day posted to Poets.org, and the poems that children’s book reviewer/blogger Tanya is posting to her website at books4yourkids.com. Today Sam asked to dictate a poem to me and after I’d taken it all down she said, “Now how can we make it so other …

14 April 2010 Mask

Apr 14, 2010

Today we went to the Mask Making Workshop at the Brighton Museum, courtesy of the Brighton and Hove Children’s Festival that is on this week. Sam made three masks: the rabbit pictured above, a cat, and a “Dad” mask that she plans to give to her father for his birthday this weekend. Shh, don’t tell! 🙂