We found women!

Life is going great these days. Mary's friend Barb is here--she was visiting her daughter who is working in Kenya so was in Africa for a month, and then stopped off in England to visit with us. It is just great to see her and fascinating to hear all her stories of travels in Kenya and Tanzania. We stayed up way too late Saturday night drinking wine and dancing to music (just the three of us), and then roused ourselves Sunday morning to go to this group we found, Wild Women Walking, a lesbian hiking group. There were about 20 women, and we did a really nice 7 mile hike. Pretty muddy, but flat, which I liked. The women were SO friendly, and interesting, and mostly close to our age. Afterwards we went to a pub together...gradually people were leaving and we were almost the last ones left--desperate for company! :-) Anyways they told us about lots of other walking groups and social groups, so I am feeling so much more connected in here.

Of course we got lost coming back to Peasedown (because I was giving directions and honestly I am hopeless.) But eventually we made it back. We had a rental car for the weekend because our landlady mistakenly took the car key back with her to Italy, but it finally arrived in the mail, so today I followed Mary to the rental place to drop off the car, then drove her up to the university. I am getting used to driving standard on the other side of the road but I still don't like the narrow roads and not knowing where I am going. However, I have figured out the roundabouts!

The sun was out this morning, and it's been mild, so that makes me feel good.

Hope life is chugging along well for all of you too. It's always great to hear from you!
hugs
Karen