We often visit Richmond Deer Park. And on days when cold and miserable weather has been predicted or experienced it seems that only the well-heeled go out walking. On days like that, I sometimes feel that we’ll be asked for our papers and be ejected from the park for being too trashy. Only Simon’s National [...]
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Five things our boy Bill rode yesterday 1. My car 2. A train from Wimbledon to Clapham Junction 3. A 156 bus from Clapham Junction to Wimbledon (top deck, but disappointingly not the very front) 4. His stroller to the grocery store 5. My shoulders
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We’ve been very busy taking in the cultural attractions and dinosaurs lately. First a trip to the Science Museum where the toddler had a fabulous time inspecting the old steam engines and playing in The Garden (a fabulous interactive play area in the basement). But he crashed out completely during a a 3D IMAX presentation [...]
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Tags: crystal palace, dinosaurs, London, Science museum, toddleriffic, V&A | No Comments »
RHS Wisley the botanical gardens in Surrey is always a beautiful place to go, but during the Christmas season they’ve added a bit extra magic with “lumiere” in the gardens. Lumiere, I think, means lights designed by French people to be worthy in an artistic sense and funky. We had no idea that they’d have [...]
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Tags: Christmas, lights, things to do, wisley | No Comments »
This morning when I dropped Bill off at nursery the kids were all busy making Christmas trees out of green construction paper and red tissue and glue and glitter. “Christmas already?” I said. “I’m not ready for that.” “You don’t do Christmas until really late?” Bill’s nursery teacher said. “No, I wait til after Thanksgiving [...]
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Tags: artwork, crafts, hand turkey, thanksgiving, toddler | 4 Comments »
Just as Eve knew, forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest. The apple trees at RHS Wisley don’t provide the knowledge of good and evil, but for many their fruits are absolutely irresistable. We often go to Wisley to enjoy the beautiful gardens, including the extensive apple orchards. Beautiful during Spring, in Autumn the boughs heavy laden [...]
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As we snake our way through one of the toniest neighbourhoods in London in a shortcut we use to get to Richmond Park, we pass a lovely Church of England churchyard. Picturesque steeple, a nursery, and an impressive looking fellowship hall or venue or whatever they call it, built of stacked stone and glass and [...]
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Tags: church, local history, London, Wimbledon | 4 Comments »
Simon’s friend Craig, best man at our wedding, is visiting. This is his second visit since we’ve had Bill. Last summer our boy was quite taken with him, but this year even more so. Their re-introduction on Friday was a moment of shyness on Bill’s part and then excited running around and showing off since. [...]
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Tags: animals, birds, deencityfarm, richmondpark | No Comments »
Our local pub has had many incarnations. When we first moved to the area it was a neglected outpost of a national chain and called the Freedom and Firkin. As a foreigner, I didn’t quite understand the 70s tv allusion to the sit-com Citizen Smith which was set in the local area. A colleague kept [...]
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Tags: park, playground, pub, Tooting, Wimbledon | 2 Comments »
While we were up in Scotland we visited Archeolink – a kind of archeology themed park which aims to inspire visitors to appreciate the dawn of Hibernian history and the techniques of archeology to boot. Not a bad concept. By and large, on our trip, we avoided the worst of the gloomy Scottish weather, but [...]
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