September 8, 2007

Committed to Cloth


WOW. Where do I begin. We had a great time in the UK. What's not to like about traveling to a place where they still like us...well most of us. We left Indianapolis Thursday night and flew to Detroit and caught the 9:30 PM to Gatwick. It seemed like 30 planes all landed at the same time and everyone had to go through immigration. The line was long and slow. When we finally made it through, there was Claire Benn waiting for us. What a relief to see her smiling face in the crowd. We were whisked away to Bovey Cottage. What a gorgeous place. The grounds were spectacular. James had fresh vegetables and a wide variety of fruit growing. Fresh figs in the morning and fresh veggies in the evenings.

Since we arrived on Friday we had the weekend to rest up and get over jet lag. We never have jet lag going over the Atlantic...only coming back. But none the less we did such restful things as:


Took a trip to Dorking and walked around, had tea, and went shopping at the local supermarket.


Went into London to tour the Tate Modern. They have a wonderful Rothko collection.


Treated like royalty. James and Claire are great chefs and gracious hosts. We can't thank Claire and Leslie enough for the opportunity to come and teach to their group of talented artists.

A picture from the Tate Modern in London



I suppose a lot of you know of Bob's habit of going to bed early and getting up early. If not he does...or used to. He was in the habit of going to bed around 6:00 PM and getting up around 1:00AM or 2:00 AM. James and Claire were bound to break him of this habit and he was doing very well. So one morning when he got up at the late hour of 5:00 AM he was able to play a little ball with Angus (below) and snap this picture of fog at Bovey. That was the only time the weather was anything but beautiful. The whole week Bob was teaching at Chequer Mead over in East Grinstead was sunny and cool.



My buddy Angus




Well that about covers the weekend. Class started on Monday. Tomorrow I will post about the class and have lots of pictures.

Thanks to Maggie at Stitching with Schnauzer and Siamese for giving me a little kick start to get this posted.

2 comments:

Stitching with Schnauzer and Siamese said...

Thank you so much for recording the start of your UK visit. I wait with baited breath for the next instalment...... back soon.
Best wishes
Maggie

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