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Cheers,

CHAPTER I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversatio…

Harry Potter and the British Library

Cheers,
  Great day today.  Early morning was our cruiser coffee at the Côte restaurant.  The sky looked gray and the rains continued but thankfully the weather cleared just as new friend Jane Lane-Roberts arrived from Tower Hill Statio…

London loves animals

Cheers,
  We’d been having such wonderful weather and now we have mostly rain.  In very damp weather thousands of folks, literally thousands, watched the fireworks over Big Ben.  We watched them today on Randal’s computer.  We d…

Happy New Year

Happy New Year
from Merry Old England
Ru, Randal and Singkey

Christmas Day and the Grizzily subject of hanging

Cheers,
   Small kids are great!   This afternoon after the rain had stopped and the sun had come out, I was sitting outside near the river trying to draw the Tower Bridge and not having much luck.  A family walked past and the…

Turk’s Head Cafe

Cheers,
   This email is about TODAY.  I’ve bolded the word today because I’ve so many emails to write about Christmas Day and the days that followed right up until this minute!  Christmas Day several cruisers walked to The Capt…

The windows of Selfridges and Harrods

Cheers and Merry Christmas
   We’ve bright sun today!   Perfect for our cruiser group to walk to the Captain Kidd pub for a noon glass of cheer.  Yesterday Randal, Singkey and I braved the constantly changing weather for the …

A Christmas Carol Quiz

Cheers and Merry Christmas
    Hope those who celebrate are enjoying the season.  The rest of us are certainly enjoying your celebration!   Yesterday Randal, Singkey and I made our first visit to the Victoria & Albert….

Westminster Abbey with Valerie

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…

Mudlarking at New Crane Wharf Wapping

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…