April 22-29 Our weather still leaves a lot to be desired. It did reach 20° on Sunday, but rapidly returned to grey and rain on Monday. Usually around 7° still. The trees are starting to bud, but very slowly. On Saturday, we were invited over to my boss's house (just down the road) to watch the big football game of Manchester United vs. Chelsea. ...

April 15th 2008 We had some better weather finally and decided to make the best of it on the weekend and went out for two wonderful long walks. We use the Ordinance Survey maps to find these little walking paths and right of ways. There are hundreds of them just within a ten mile radius, it is mind boggling. The first walk we took was along an o...

It's another cold, grey day here in BofA. I'm packing my stuff up for the umpteenth time, throwing out stuff I'll probably need and cramming in stuff I probably won't. I'm no good at packing. You'd think the fact that I've moved around so much in my life would mean that I've fine-tuned and honed this particular skill, but I haven't. Oh well. I h...