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"There are too many grammatical and spelling errors in The Sword Dance for Word to continue to display them."

sigh... so anyway, there's more madness over at simien_mtn_fox.

Yesterday Sara and her whole class went away for a week at an adventure activity centre in the highlands. There are a bunch of videos from last year on youtube that show you the kind of stuff they get up to--trapezing and fencing and building rafts and piles of mud!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nxBMb8zkajw

Sara's main worries are, pretty much in this order: 1) Will she find enough to eat? 2) Will she be able to live without cuddles from Mummy/Laura (the cat) for a whole week? (it's not really a WHOLE week--just monday to friday, but she has never been away from both parents for more than a night) 3) Will she be warm enough? 4) Will she be able to brush her own hair with enough success that mummy won't cut it all off when she gets home?

(Sara is front/left in both pictures)

I went to see them off yesterday and they were all very cute, with their TONS of stuff (they have to take three pairs of sneakers and sleeping bags and stuffed animals and about a trillion sweaters). They seemed very excited and not too worried. The place they are staying is where Beatrix Potter's family used to go before they went to the Lake District.

In other news, we have made the BEST home improvement we have ever made, and constructed a summerhouse. It is like having Thoreau’s cabin in the garden. I find it an unbelievably inspiring place to work—I just sit there and all my troubles and distractions fall away. Plus, it is like having a porch. I had always imagined it would be nice to get an extra hour of sitting outside on sunny days but I had not realized that we would also be able to sit out there on RAINY days and even on RAINY nights. Which means pretty much ALWAYS (on Sunday morning one of the other Sunday school mums looked up at the elusive sun and exclaimed, “What is that golden orb?”)