Winchester. A nice day with a friend of WeatherGirl’s seeing the great cathedral and the beautiful town.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWhew! 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.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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