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Cheers,
    So are you all racing around like mad getting ready for Christmas?  On Monday or Tuesday Randal, Singkey and I will go look at the windows of Harrods and Selfridges which are famous for their decorations.  On Christ…

Cheers,
   A few weeks ago some of us went mudlarking along the Thames at low tide.  Here is more than you probably want to know about mudlarks, mudlarking and clay pipes.
Ru
PS  Hope any of you having to deal with the big winter s…

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      I wish I could have taken photos inside St Paul’s but they’re not allowed.  As I knew that ahead of time, I almost brought no camera at all.  At the last minute I took my old smaller camera which wei…

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   Saturday I joined a walking tour in Bloomsbury based on several “Sketches by Boz” and luckily I’d actually read one of them that morning.  Sunday Sue and Ed Kelly, Sue Ross and I went mudlarking on the Thames looking for…

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   For someone who lives on a boat, I truly have no real interest in them or naval history.  Or military history in general though I am beginning to wonder how we won the Revolutionary War given the great British Navy.  Lots…

Cheers,
  With all of the recent horrible weather around Great Britain and Europe, Randal and I have been quite lucky avoiding it.  We spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Portsmouth at the Historic Dockyard and most of Thursday making our way back…

Cheers,
    We are now officially the owners of 100 acres of mountain top land in Roanoke County.  One day our home will be up there overlooking the Roanoke Valley.  We will again become land lubbers!
This is the official noti…

Cheers,
   Yesterday Randal and I raced over to the British Museum to join up with a www.walks.com tour.  Today I had my third life drawing class.  Time is flying!  
Our cruiser group is passing a set of germs around and …

Cheers,
    It was a very overcast day weather-wise, but Randal and I had a lovely Thanksgiving Day here in London, or Rotherhithe to be exact.    I think it’s the first time that I’ve actually thought about Pilgrims r…

Somehow I decided Hanukkah and Thanksgiving started on the same day….glad I just noticed this reminder from my sister.
So Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate!
Ru