Family and friends are filling our days and nights right now so there has been little time to pop in here.  We hosted a potluck lunch for my husband's colleagues today which turned out wonderfully.  Our Colin was able to swap stories with one of my husband's British co-workers who was a wheelchair athlete. I say British, but this man was born to a Portugese couple living in Mozambique, grew up there until a restructuring of the political system in his teens, and now works here.  We have heard so many similar stories. You just never really know where life is going to take you.  

Later in the afternoon I found myself sitting around the kitchen island with two gentlemen discussing 20th century British social history – everything from the Beeching rail closures to BBC programming to the National Health System to British comedy.  I may have learned more in that half hour or so than all the British history I knew up to that point – or maybe just have a better context for it now. Which is why we are here, of course.

The world is a fascinating place and I so love talking to the people in it. Must sleep now though. I think this is the only snap I have of the day.