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got to come as well as r s eldest daughter view of london from the top of the hill at hampstead heath this park has a series of ponds some of which are for bathing the kids really really want to come back here and go for a swim when the weather gets hot again conspicuously absent is evidence from carrie s visit in early april which was lovely it s hard to believe we re coming back in about two months i feel like we ve barely scratched the surface of stuff to see and the bloom hasn t fallen off the rose yet i m still in love with this city at the same time i m itching to get back to my house to see all my friends and family and to be in my own space with my own stuff and hopefully with gainful employment but i will miss london so much in case you need to see a zillion pictures of stonehenge click the links to my flickr albums for march april and may permalink march 11 2014 by nathknits 7 comments cambridge day seven and a half months i think they re forsythias but double bloomed there are regular ones around too it s spring in london we ve had a few days of beautiful weather my freckles are back i m not chilly the sun is out and the ground might actually dry there s a camellia outside my kitchen door blooming like mad this makes me pretty happy sunday was the nicest day at a sunny 16 degrees so we decided to go to hyde park to soak up some rays half of london obviously got the same idea it was packed there was a lineup to get into one of the playgrounds with a sign playground at capacity have i mentioned britain s great love of fences that s a whole blog post by itself it was a lovely lazy day even for zebula who was exhausted from the previous night she was at a birthday sleepover there was a chocolate fountain selfie by dr thingo in hyde park i only just now noticed that his eyes are closed this one s for the grandparents so we went to cambridge over two weeks ago i should tell you about it before i forget church of our lady and the english martyrs cambridge i like church ceilings apparently cambridge was lovely it is very much a university town and the parts we walked through that weren t outright university grounds felt like university towns everywhere but much much older coffee shops bookstores kind of funky but with an underlying feeling of we ve been here for hundreds of years it s a nice place the main geographical feature is of course the river cam which runs through the city cambridge was called cambridge before the river cam was called the river cam for real the river was named granta by the saxons and the city became known as cambridge a little later the river was renamed cam to match the name thanks wikipedia the mathematical bridge over the cam queen s college said to be designed and built by isaac newton without nuts or bolts which it turns out is a myth leibniz invented it the week before ok that s wrong too it was designed by neither newton nor leibniz and uses plenty of nuts and bolts it s called mathematical because of the design little door inside a big door queen s college queen s college the university is really a collection of colleges separate but somehow not it s nearly impossible to follow the river as a large part of the riverfront in the city belongs to the various colleges and there are fences and gates everywhere to prevent entry to non members you shall not pass still it was nice to walk around we managed to miss opening hours for most of the colleges and their chapels psa don t be a tourist in cambridge on a sunday though we did get to wander around queen s college a bit mostly to get onto the mathematical bridge we even saw lots of students carrying around sporting equipment like tennis racquets and rugby balls it was so wonderfully cliché king s college trinity college i can t remember which college events bikes it was hard to get a sense of what the lives of non student cambridgians are like we only really visited the university parts we ventured out to a park jesus green for the kids to let off steam their patience for my strong desire to see old things and walk around wears pretty thin eventually and saw lots of families there and their houses on the other side of the park the most striking thing was the lack of ethnic diversity there i ve become so used to all the different cultures mingling in london that it was a shock to see a very stereotypically european looking community even at the university just another nice building we ll probably go back a cousin of mine moved there a few days after we visited and i d love to go say hello and pass on some kitchen stuff i ve accumulated though time is starting to feel like it s running out only about four months until we re back home cool old tree outside king s college the lower limbs touched the ground and inside the radius of those limbs the ground was covered in crocus full set of cambridge photos here permalink march 2 2014 by nathknits 2 comments halfway contest winner time to announce the winner of the contest whose name changed every few days i tossed my one sided die and the lovely aem2 is the winner i ll get in touch personally and we ll discuss design etc congratulations aem2 blogs at physics girl on the loose go check it out she s in the middle of a formal de cluttering scheme that i like very much next post cambridge permalink february 28 2014 by nathknits 6 comments various and sundry day just over seven months take heart canada spring will come for you too last day to say it with cross stitch comment on this post for a chance to win some bespoke cross stitchy goodness happy last day of february it s been an especially crappy winter for both canada and the uk march despite its proverbial coming in like a lion is the beginning of the end hang in there summer is coming we ll be complaining about the heat in just a few months i put my back out today doing burpees my knee hurts from an undignified injury i suffered about four years ago so i ve stopped running i feel like i m about 80 years old we re back to the usual routine this week we had a last week off half term break for the kids and had planned a day trip to cambridge as well as another country walk however vorlon was sick and housebound for most of the week so the walk was canceled and the trip to cambridge was postponed to the last sunday of the break we had some friends over for dinner the first weekend they d generously offered to take the kids to see the lego movie with their kids so i invited them all over for dinner afterwards it was nice to cook for a crowd and to socialise i m slowly making friends at choir and the museum and dr thingo has found some squash buddies zebula had a friend the other day who was trying to convince her to stay what if all your canada friends could move here too and was invited to a birthday sleepover next weekend vorlon wants to stay for another year so that he can go up the o2 centre apparently you have to be 10 i said if he saved his allowance for the next 10 years both for the flight and for the ridiculous entrance fee he could come back we re leaving in less than 5 months and finally starting to feel like we re making roots that s how it goes i guess only 311 steps to go we ventured out into the city last saturday it was a beautiful sunny day and vorlon was feeling better and we were all pretty antsy we wandered around with no real plan other than for dr thingo to find the plaque marking the location of london s first coffee shop and ended up having a nice afternoon included were the aforementioned coffeehouse plaque christopher wren s monument to the great fire of london the park at st dunston in the east and a failed attempt to go to this park which i hadn t seen before but which the kids had been to with dr thingo and which they assure me is awesome unfortunately it was closed the monument built by christopher wren in the 1670s view from the top that s the tower bridge and you can see the tower of london too kilroy was here 18th century style st dunstan in the east it was bombed out during the blitz and has been converted to a park it s a beautiful quiet meditative spot so of course we couldn t be there with the kids for more than 5 minutes please help me identify the following bird and plants spotted in cambridge also spotted in cambridge it has bright yellow feet spotted on my street looks like it should be from another planet spotted on my street smells fantastic i think i ve mentioned before that i ve started helping out a lady in my choir who has been teaching drama for a long time she retired 8 years ago her area of expertise is in what she calls reminiscence theatre where you speak with elderly people and encourage them to remember their past and act it out she s had great results and has done many plays over the years and has toured them all over europe topics range from people remembering what their mums did to keep their families running during world war ii to talking about how they found out about sex to talking about what healthcare was like before the nhs existed it s very interesting she still works with the elderly especially groups with dementia to encourage them to share their memories she feels strongly that while what she does is by no means a miracle cure it does draw people out of what must be a great deal of frustration and isolation and they keep surprising her by willingly and enthusiastically sharing their memories with her and acting them out she invited me to join in a training session she was holding for filmmakers who are working on the same kind of reminiscence project both to get a sense for what she does and to experience it for myself i admit that i wasn t that enthusiastic about going but accepted anyway this sabbatical is all about new experiences right i m not that fond of this kind of forced group activity icebreaker games at so called team building events make me deeply uncomfortable the workshop was this morning and i was surprised to find myself having a very good time her approach feels very natural and unforced it was revealing and made me appreciate a little bit more what people with dementia must feel she s also invited me to join her for a session with some patients and i think i will join her i still feel very self conscious every time i open my mouth to speak people are never mean spirited or dismissive of my accent but it still feels very conspicuous and i still have a hard time with people with particularly heavy south london accents and have to listen very closely i don t know how long i d have to live here for that to stop being the case public bike pump next to cycling superhighway i would love to see both of these implemented in kw all of february s pictures are here cambridge will get its own post someday permalink february 11 2014 by nathknits 2 comments doodling day six and a half months ish good weather for rainbows lately from lesnes abbey hello from rainy london because people have been asking luckily we haven t been affected by the terrible weather and flooding in the southwest of england it has been rainy so much rain and windy though but nothing near as bad as what s happening there hopefully the rain will let up soon so that somerset and devon can catch their breath and start repairs ruins of lesnes abbey in abbey wood we ve taken it easy tourism wise lately just short trips around the city for museums and monuments my favourite was lesnes abbey decommissioned by cardinal wolsey during henry viii s reign so that he the cardinal could siphon the money from selling off the land into his new college at oxford which is topical because i m finally getting around to watching the fourth season of the tudors which of course required me to re watch the first three seasons again soggy crocus that would open if it could just be sunny for more than 5 minutes at a time i m in a concert this weekend so it ll be a good week of singing women of the blackheath choir with the lambeth symphony orchestra we re doing debussy s sirènes and berlioz la mort d ophélie if you want to come speaking of singing the choir i m in has a workshop day every year on a saturday in february there are two singing workshops in the afternoon followed by a potluck dinner and party pieces the point is to branch out a little from the usual classical oratorio stuff one workshop was by the leader of a pop choir which was ok but the other was by a man who s been studying and performing balinese gamelan music for years it was basically a couple of hours of this well a lot slower so much fun the evening was good too several choristers performed short pieces and probably coincidentally none of that was classical either and i learned that it s not only in schools that custard is used as a dessert gravy just another reason to love this country i finished knitting a sweater badly in need of blocking which will happen if the dampness ever lets up did i mention it s damp that s the striper cardigan by amy herzog and the yarn is rowan pure wool dk and felted tweed i added bust darts as usual i ll block it someday i ve been doodling well knitting doodling i ve accumulated a lot of leftovers so i decided to make a sabbatical leftovers souvenir blanket to replace the leftovers afghan of love that i gave mr thingo years and year ago when he left for seattle to become dr thingo that is very much looking its age i figure knitted up yarn packs up better than a zillion little balls i made a template square in garter stitch and i ve been doodling while watching the aforementioned tudors garter stitch is good for this because two rows equals one stitch so it s easy to get all geometrical template square and i spun some this is some two ply undyed bfl woolen ish spun i think it ll become a small ish this things sound ramp up tourism wise in the spring craig s been asked to give a talk in granada in may so we re all tagging along he s giving another one in bath at some point so we ll tag along for that too he s also been asked to give one in germany but i think we ll have to miss out on that one unfortunately we re swapping houses in may with the orchard family so we ll see some bristol cardiff goodness i d like to head down to dover and brighton at some point my country walks book has a great 20 km walk that includes a dip in the ocean that the kids are psyched about and we should head up to salisbury too and cambridge and it s already time to start thinking about getting back home i ve registered the kids for school at least i think i have i need to call the schools today to make sure the packages made it i ve updated my resume after more than a decade of not doing so hire me i m looking at my pantry in dismay time for eat down the pantry 2014 remember to comment on my previous post by march 1 to win the cross stitched message of your choice permalink february 2 2014 by nathknits 6 comments halfway contest day six months and a bit happy groundhog day not a groundhog but the world s neediest cat enjoying a 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