Last 3 days at Harlaxton

Part of our choir singing at Lincoln Cathedral (photo taken by a student) B in the middle behind a student.











Game playing with Leslie & Mike in the Van der Elst Room


















3 yr old Graham (just arrived last Sunday) and
his dad, Chuck

















Eating at Checquers Pub with Barbara Cross

















Dean's favorite reading spot in our room






















Dean with a few of his writings--
Happenings Here






















Forresters' Morris Dancers in Great Hall

















The Morris Dance "Fool"--lots of fun
















Morris Dancers
















We leave tomorrow (Thursday, 29th) to stay in London (St Athans Hotel--our usual place since 1977) over night before flying to Frankfurt, Germany on Friday. Someone(s) from Melanie's (Lori's family's AFS student last year) family will meet us at the airport. We're excited about going and being with her and meeting her family! We'll then be back in London from Feb 3-8 until we fly home.


We are sad about leaving Harlaxton (the place and feeling here) and all the old and new friends we have made among the students, staff, and faculty. Two girls from the college choir came up to me after supper tonight to give me hugs good-by. We'll be here through lunch tomorrow, so will wait to really say good-by then. We are pretty much all packed (midnight).


We played cards with a young faculty couple for a couple of hours tonight ("Oh Hell") and had such a good time. They are both artists and such fun.



Back to Monday, 26 Jan, we each made trips into Grantham to take care of banking, returning a book to the library, and doing a little shopping. I walked around some of the streets that I've enjoyed doing in years past. Later in the afternoon we got in our usual 2-mile walk along the Manor Drive. That evening I went to see the Forresters' Morris Dancers and Cloggers and a Plough Play in the Great Hall & Conservatory. It was all a lot of fun.



Tuesday Dean finished up another one of the writings he has done at Gordon's request (#7, I think), called "Happening Here." These each related people, events, and places from near Harlaxton to the British Studies course topics of the week. I went to my last choir practice; then we joined 6 other faculty folks for dinner at the good Indian food Restaurant we had gone to once before. That was a lot of fun and good food!



Wednesday, today, I spent hours sending (by e-mail) the various faculty members and spouses photos that I had taken of them while we were here. I received appreciative feedback and comments, etc. Our friend, Barbara Cross, picked us up and drove us to a neat Country Pub in Woolsthorp by Belvoir Castle (Checquers Pub) for a delicious lunch in a really cosy place with fireplace and dark beams, etc. It was a good couple of hours with her.


We will finish packing in the morning and be on our way.





















I don't know how much more of this blogging I'll be able to do, but I'll report on our time in Germany & London after we get home if I haven't done any of it before then.