Conkers

Hello~
While it is still sunny and hot where most of you live, it is rainy and the cold winds are blowing here in Cambridge. On the first day of September autumn dutifully flounced into the region, diplaying her gorious colors and whispers. In the autumn here the skies become a deeper shade of indigo at night, the starts twinkle with more brillance, the rain begins to fall sideways, and the temperature drops by several degrees. As we are without a car these two years, we have had to outfit ourselves in both rain pants as well as rain coats and boots. It is very possible to bike around in this, and most of the English are not even wearing coats or hats yet... Our blessings continue. We were given a tandem bike attachment from a neighbor further down the street, and this has cut off the time it takes to get to school by 10 minutes, horray! We had a wonderful barbecque with Kevins lab on one of the last warm evenings. Nearly half of my required texts for school were at the Cambridge Library for me to borrow. And, I recieved a modest scholarship for my studies at Roehampton. We have been having fun with language, and I will take few lines to deliniate some of the funny differences. Raincoat=Mac Toilet=Lou Thank You=Cheers Brilliant=Good Plimsole=Sneaker Boots=Cleats Cooker=Oven Lunch=Dinner Courgette=Squash Squash=Koolaide Chestnut=Conker My kids school bags were full of conkers the other day, and no amount of reasoning on my part could convince them they were actually chestnuts. :) Peace and Love,