Tag: london

I posted about Adam’s Union Jack quilt back around Christmas, but I never posted about the other present inspired by that project.

This was actually meant to be sort of Adam’s new dad present, but I was so excited about it I gave it to him for Christmas. My brother-in-law Morgan, while helping me with the backing fabric for Adam’s quilt, mentioned that he could change some of the station names on the London tube map if I wanted. And that gave me the idea to create a print for Adam, something completely separate from the quilt, with notable London spots from his life. Adam had a print of “The Great Bear” in his apartment when we first met, and it was destroyed last summer during the hurricane when our basement flooded. We’d also been talking about making some kind of family tree to put in H’s room. So when Morgan told me he could tweak the map, this seemed like the perfect plan.

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snowmanAdam, his brother Thomas, stepmother, father, and I went into London yesterday to see The Snowman at the Peacock Theatre. It’s a production based on Raymond Briggs’ classic wordless book and the classic holiday animated film of the same name. The show was put on by Sadler’s Wells, and it was really nice. This photo is from the publicity photos from the show, and you get the idea of how they did the snowman. I showed the film to my pre-k through 1st graders before the holidays, and they loved it. I love the music from the movie, so I really enjoyed this entire experience. So much fun, and the kids in the audience loved it.

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I arrived in London this morning, and I’ve been a bit of a mess all day. We hit the ground running, leaving me just time to shower before heading out for the day with Cora and Ian, my mother- and stepfather-in-law. I was like a zombie a lot of the day, but we had a really great time. I managed to snap a few pictures in my jetlagged haze.

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The story of the King’s Road lion, adopted from Harrod’s in London by two young men in 1969, seems to be popping up a lot this week. No less than three people told me about the video of John Rendall and Ace Bourke visiting Christian after he was brought to Africa to live in the wild, and it’s amazing. And here is a link to the full story of Christian’s year as a swinging Londoner and his trip to Africa, which is also an incredible story. The YouTube video suggests it was a year after Christian went to Africa that the two young men went to see him, but according to the article it was in 1974.

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