Archive for June, 2007
Long Summer Days
These days in the Shire, the sun rises at 4:46 am and sets at 9:21 pm, though really it doesn’t get pitch dark until about an hour after that. If only the stores would stay open longer too!
Just a regular day
This is one of those days when I forget we’re living in England. It’s just a normal day doing the same things we would do if we were in Texas. Roxi has a friend over for the day and to sleep over. They’re downstairs playing video games, watching their performance from last week’s show, and [...]
Dover Castle, England
We checked the weather reports for the weekend and planned to go to Dover on Saturday, but Mr. DJ (our designated long distance/highway driver) stayed up too late Friday night playing with his music. So, we saved our trip for the next day, soggy Sunday. Dover is located in southeastern England in the county of [...]
The White Cliffs
We spent a fairly wet Sunday afternoon at Dover Castle. I’ll post more later, but for now, here’s something look at: The white chalk cliffs from St. Margaret’s Bay, England. It’s raining today–kind of a steady rain. It’s still on the light side, but it’s more than we’ve seen since we moved to England in [...]
What’s blooming in my garden
I came back from our holiday in the States last week and found these things in bloom. Anyone know what they are? Weed. Weed. The little guys I planted about 20 days ago. Mums, I think, that were in this pot when we moved in. Mysterious yellow flowers. Pretty purple vine creeping over from our [...]
Avebury Circle in Wiltshire, England
From Stonehenge, we traveled one hour north toward the small village of Avebury. The village is located inside the Avebury Stone Circle! Here are some photos I took along the way. Tank Crossing, Wiltshire, England. Wild (?) poppies in bloom, Wiltshire, England. Road through the trees and hedges, Wiltshire, England. The car park is located [...]
Recommended reading
Um–I recently found out that some of you might not know this. When you see something that looks like this, you can click on those highlighted words and it will take you to another website that I think might be of interest to you. Now if I can just figure out how to make a [...]
Father’s Day trip to Stonehenge
Ok, I have tried over the past few days to find a long stretch of time to work on posting my pics of Stonehenge, but between jet lag, unpacking, laundry from the trip, grocery shopping, chauffeuring Roxi to and from Theatre Camp, and life in general, I haven’t had great blocks of time. So I’ll [...]
Back in England
Got home around 1pm yesterday. We slept four hours, stayed up too late, then slept for 12 hours. Didn’t do much today. It’s nice for all of us to be home together. Mr DJ hasn’t been home for three weeks! We had a great time visiting everyone, but I have to tell you… I’ll take [...]
