events since the snow

the pictures show Boris shaking hands with the young Elvis depicted in Tupelo where he was born, at the same age as B is now (notice bib overalls), and from the museum at graceland (note changing tast in clothes).

its been a while since we updated the blog, primarily because we've been busy updating the house: painting rooms, hanging curtains, having the floor done, putting up bookshelves and the like. you can see familiar items rearranged not too differently in the photo of our new dining room. this has all required a pretty comprensive upgrade of our equipment and tools, so we've been out at the local version of mitre ten every weekend buying sanders and scrapers, brushes and sharpeners, paints and polyurethanes, as well as big items such as a new lawn mower, a bbq and a canoe (!) we've also completely renovated the vege garden and replanted it with summer salad things and 'erbs, 'erbs, 'erbs ...

it was great having kath and tony here, and the trips we went on with them were a lot of fun, especially visiting memphis tennessee. tony said he would never have though of going to gracelands, but he was very impressed by it. they also went to savannah (east) and new orleans (west). tony was handy about the place at a crucial time, and his expertise in things electronic helped a lot (eg my record player).

i have just spent ten days in the netherlands, france and belgium, mostly at a conference, but i managed to get to carnac where the prehistoric stone alignments are, and now that i'm back am settling in to the warm weather. the porch is the place to be, with home-made lemonade, mint juleps and jacqueline's wicked margueritas.

we had the landscape architecture faculty and students for a bbq a couple of weeks ago. even when they're drunk the students call you sir.as i think we've mentioned you can't get lamb here, so we bbq'd texan steaks and weenies, and the grilled squirrel went down a treat too!

carnac alignments




graceland