It's been unusually sunny and warm here, and that delights me. More spring flowers every day, and cherry trees in blossom. We've been warned it could get cold again, possibly even have a freak snowstorm but I am just enjoying this weather while it's here.
We had another 5 1/2 mile hike last Sunday with the Wild Women Walking group. There were about 14 of us...everyone so friendly and interesting. It was another gorgeous view of English countryside, and not much mud. The only scarey moment was walking through a field where a horse took offence and kicked at one of the women. It seemed more like a warning than a real attempt to hurt but scared us all pretty good!
We all went to a pub for a pint after and had some great lessons in English expressions--for example, "I was absolutely gutted!" means really upset, devastated, torn up about something. And when you think something is really ridiculous, you say its the "horses bollocks". I think that one is somewhat rude :-)
M and I are off to London tomorrow, Feb. 13, for 5 days. We've ditched the trip to Brighton and won't be returning to London after, so we'll be back in Peasedown by the 19th, not the 26th as I had written earlier. It's a lot easier for her to work at her office at the university, and I am doing a bit of work too and needing to have a stable place to work, so moving around too much seemed like not the best thing.
My brother Jim will be coming at the end of February and he and I are heading to Nice together for five days, so hope I will have some great pictures to post after that trip.
It was my birthday last Saturday. Thanks for the cards and ecards and phone calls. Mary made me a fab breakfast and took me into Bath to a great Italian restaurant, which was very nice. We missed our community of friends though...we are looking forward to being home again.
More after London.
K.
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