Buskers, holidays, cake

Maaike made me a Dutch Apple pie for my birthday. It was delicious as ever

We’ve had miserable weather of late, which put a slight dampener on some of the buskers festival (but only for a few days). Anna totally enjoyed getting on stage and doing her pukana.

A couple of trips to willowbank where we had “El Gregore”‘s magic show. Always a firm favourite.

I’ve started reading “Swallows and Amazons” to Anna, and she’s totally enjoying it. My Aunt Mary who works in a bookstore keeps an eagle eye out for any in the series I don’t have. This one – “We didn’t mean to go to sea”, well, it so happens that the boat in that was Arthur Ransome’s own boat, and it’s still available to be sailed on, and it’s close to where the family gathering is in the UK later on this year. I’m hoping to get to sail on it (nothing set in stone yet however). There’s a really lovely video if you have ten minutes to spare. For some reason brought a tear to my eye (but I’m a terrible softy)

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