Saturday, July 12, 2014
Life seems to be one festival after another this summer. Daughter Anne and Granddaughter Zoe are both into folk dance, Irish and Middle-eastern particularly. Today's festival was more of bands and vendors, and some of the more obvious merchandise I was looking for was not there. I want to find McGrath's Irish Breakfast Tea... but there was nothing of the sort on offer. And I want to find a Clarke's tin whistle, the original penny whistle. Again... no one had such a thing. Well, the tin whistle... Sign in to see full entry.
PRIVATE LIVES
is a play by Noel Coward: very witty and funny with rather obnoxious characters you can actually like! Annie and Zoe and I went to see it on stage last night. Zoe, 11, laughed and enjoyed it--I asked if she was laughing because the jokes were funny to her, or because we were laughing. She said, A little of both. Dinner last night was at a place called Pho DC. and it also was very good. Some flavors, though, it is hard for the mouth to get enough of them: the bowl is empty long before the mouth... Sign in to see full entry.