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

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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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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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Sam gets her face painted by one of the artists of the Artist Residence Brighton Hotel, which had an open house today. The artist had never painted a cat before. Or a kid’s face.

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At last it was warm enough to go into the water! Sam and Cerys head into the paddling pool.

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We celebrated our new friend’s 15th birthday today at a yummy birthday lunch party.

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