We just returned from a wonderful three week visit to the UK. We spent most of the time with WeatherGirl‘s mum, who we hadn’t seen for a few years, so that was really cool. We also squeezed in a bunch of short visits:
- Helmshore Mills Textile Museum. A neat little museum of important technologies in the early industrial revolution.
- Colchester. Thanks to Riccardo and Caterina for being such great hosts, and to Bill and Chris for a fun day of scientific discussion and contemplation.
- A nice visit with WeatherGirl’s brother.
- Stratford upon Avon. The birthplace of Shakespeare (and his home for significant parts of his life) and a neat city to hang out in. We also saw Twelfth night at the Royal Shakespeare, which was really cool.
- Raddlebarn School. This was where Sub-Evil Boy went to school when we lived in Birmingham (2000-2001). It was the first time he’d seen those kids since we left four years ago, and was one of the last chances to see them as a group as they’ll scatter off to different secondary schools in a few months.
- Isle of Wight. WeatherGirl’s mum’s family comes from the Isle, and WeatherGirl’s great aunt Kath still lives there. We hadn’t seen her in 8(?) years, and WeatherGirl’s mum hadn’t been back to the island in a decade or two, so it was nice to go back.
- Winchester. A nice day with a friend of WeatherGirl’s seeing the great cathedral and the beautiful town.
Whew! I’m tired just thinking about it. There will be more on many of these things (including pointers to photos) over the next few days as we adapt to our return.
Huge thanks to Matthew and Nancy and Cheryl for keeping our evil cats feed and watered while we were away. Also huge thanks to Tom and Roxann for helping us avoid 3 weeks of parking charges in the Cities and letting us crash at their place last night when we so desparately needed it!
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