The sometimes vague plan clearer in hindsight
May 13
leave Albuquerque
May 14
arrive Heathrow
went to lunch on the new patio
shopped in Staines
May 15
Visited Lis F. in London
May 16
went to West Wittering Beach, and to West Wittering parish church (stile and notes on stiles)
May 17
Hampton Court
May 18
"Victorian Times" at Harrow Museum
May 19
train to Edinburgh, stay in Linlithgow with Joannah Smith
Jo's photos
May 20
Queensferry, antenatal group
then to Bernie's outside of Edinburgh, near Penicuik
May 21
Speak in Edinburgh
May 22
Parenting talk
May 23
Family gathering, St. Peter's on Lutton Place
May 24
to Abi's and then Edinburgh Castle
(by dinner I was too unwell to be fun, went to sleep about 6:30, and was better the next day)
May 25
Museum of Childhood and charity shops
May 26
Monkey Bizness
May 27
Children's Club, then to Yarrow Valley, Selkirk
Kirsten drove me to Ester Siroky's house.
May 28
Walked, saw Yarrow Kirk and graveyard, went to Selkirk to see the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with solo clarinetist Maximillian Martin
May 29
Ettrick Kirk
May 30
Samuel drove me to Selkirk and got me on the bus to Edinburgh.
train to Durham, to Jude's, 1940's gathering
May 31
Durham Cathedral, dinner
June 1
Botanic gardens, meet-up with home ed families
June 2
train to Sheffield, to Bea Marshall's
June 3
picnic in The Peak District
June 4
Sheffield Museum, toad-in-the-hole, coal fire, fake shoes
June 5
St. Mary's in Walkley church, and train to Derby, to Elaine's
June 6
Tissington Well Dressings
June 7
train to Ashford (Surrey)
June 8
Leeds Castle with James and Adam Daniel
June 9
Slept
June 10
Julie took me to the hotel, we met the Waynforths, and Beth and Emma came and had dinner with us.
June 11
LiTTLe Conference, London
June 12
to France
June 14-17
Gathering in Baud
June 19
Return to UK
June 20
Walked around Ashford, went to charity shops.
Elvis night at the fish'n'chips shop
June 21
Julie, Adam and I went on the Duck Tour, the London Eye, and Adam was installed as a Beaver Scout that evening.
June 22, lunch and the water mill in Winchester with Julie and Adam
went to Katie Pybus' house in Pulburough
June 23, met with other home ed families near Arundel Castle (didn't get to see the castle but from a distance)
June 24, Friday, Katie drove me back to Julie's.
June 25
London to meet Carrie and see V&A, maybe (London Eye, probably, too)
June 26
Hollycomb Steam in the Country steam museum
June 27
Bristol and thereabout for nearly a week
Stayed with Allison and Bartek, Emil (8) and Lucian (5), Charlie the dog
Twice other unschoolers came over while I was there.
We went to visit Kate Mitchell in Stroud. They made me a wonderful kind of monkey-platter lunch.
July 2
Owslebury, Hampshire
Stayed with Cathy Koetsier's family, visited Winchester
James and Adam came to pick me up
July 4
tired, tired... resting for a day or two
July 6
played Apples to Apples with Julie, James, Adam, James' mom Cath and Ollie
July 7
Ringo's birthday, stayed at Julie's and worked on photos and blog posts
July 8
flew to Portstewart, Co. Londonderry
Stayed with Sarah Dickinson's family very fun
July 11
Kew Gardens, Julie and Adam and I met Lis Fields and Jasmine
Les Miserables, with Julie
July 12
Pack
(I was dismayed and overwhelmed at my pile of stuff; Julie packed me up.)
July 13
fly back home to Albuquerque
