Friday, September 16, 2011

UP IN THEM THAR HILLS

The hills of Tennessee are SO beautiful. Sewanee is a small university town of lovely stone buildings in parklands, with deer wandering around (7 grazing in our backyard yesterday afternoon). The house are charming (and CHEAP - you wouldn't believe what you could buy for under $400,000).

The drive here from Nashville in our latest model VW was peppered with Christine reminding JB that he was too far to the right, but we arrived in one piece. It has been great to catch up with Barbara and Bill and meet their "new"children David and Jasmine, whom they have adopted. We went to their primary school yesterday and were helpful in a lesson about latitude and longitude (having crossed so many recently). Our archbishop Philip Freier was here last week and had dinner with the Staffords. Barbara showed him a picture from her scrapbook of Christine at Merton Hall in Year 12 (Barbara was an exchange scholar).

To celebrate JB's birthday we went to a local restaurant last night, Ivy Wild - with brilliant nouveau cuisine in a converted laundry, then home to a birthday cake for dessert

We are starting to make plans for the following days, but no rush. We trust everyone at home is fine, particularly Pippa, who has been keeping her parents from proper sleep with her cold.

1 comment:

Franciscus Henri said...

Belated Happy Birthday ..If we were there I would have strumed the banjo
and sung "SE WA NEE how I luv yoo my old deer called Se wa nee"
We celebrated your birthday by keeping to the theme and having a party in the laundry. GG is still with the vet and we are preparing to take a second mortgage on the house.
I dined with the right Rev Mark Burton the other night and suspect that if JB had been there it would have been an irreverent trinity. FUN!
In Dutchcare.. someone stole mums hearing aid and sent it to QLD. They sent it back and hid in behind the wall unit.
went to MTC excellent play.. Clybourne park .All about America going mad. KEEP UP THE FUN xx