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Sam took her first British swim class here today: Ducklings level 1-2. The pool was nice. I suspect we will spend much of the summer here.

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Sam is just starting to get reading. This morning I made her a couple of quick, homemade easy readers: nothing fancy– just what I could think of off the top of my head–that would fit on 4 pages. Things like: I am Sam. I love cats. Cats love rats. Rats run fast. She loved these. “Now I’m going to make YOU a little book, …

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We’re very excited here chez nous. On Friday Sam found a crossword puzzle book that her cousins gave her for Christmas. When I told her that she couldn’t do it until she had learned to read and write, she pouted and flounced off. A little while later she came back and said, “Mommy, let’s do a reading class.” We’ve been …

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An impromptu trip: we cycled along the coast to Rottingdean today, a little village to the east of Brighton. Once we got past the throngs of people shuffling around near the Brighton Pier and Marina, it was a lovely ride, if a bit incongruous: on one side, lovely grassy coastline and cliff views; on the other side, the …

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After French class, the pirates landed.

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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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