Hi all! It's Tim here, checking in with my first post. Today is Saturday, and we had a nice adventure today with some new friends that Sarah met earlier in the week. Shelley and Michael are from Texas, and now live here in Chiswick with their daughter Sarah (18 mos). Janna and Michael moved here from Brooklyn about a year ago, and live just down the street from us (next to the Bollo pub Sarah mentioned in a previous post) with their 9 month old son, Solomon. Janna and Bill had gone to a town called Barnes the previous weekend, and left their umbrella in a toy shop they visited. Today's visit was primarily to pick up the umbrella, visit a farmers market, and just browse around Barnes. We met up with the 6 of them after lunch (good old McDonald's today), and hopped on a bus. We got off the bus before we got to Barnes, so we could walk across the Barnes bridge - which was very cool. There were several long boats with rowers practicing in the river. Interesting side note on the River Thames - since it connects to the coast, the river has a pretty significant high and low tide. We walked down to the river one afternoon, and the water was up over the banks and up to the road. Carol and the girls went back the next morning, and the river had shrunk almost halfway into the channel (which was not a pretty site, according to Carol). Anyway - it looked nice today. We spent a couple hours in Barnes, then headed back home again. By the time we got back to our house, Sarah got a call from Shelly, asking if we'd like to come over for dinner tonight, so we're looking forward to that!
Work is going very well. It's very busy, as you'd probably imagine. Our workday is from 9 - 6, which I'm adjusting to. It's nice having more time in the morning with Sarah and the girls before I have to head out, but the afternoons can get quite long. At home, I usually ate lunch around 11:30, but here the cafe doesn't open for lunch.
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