The Fun And The Joy

In the year 1990 the US Air Force decided in its wisdom to station the SconeLady's husband to an American air base in England. Hearing of this occurrence, she screamed. Truly she did, because she'd been wanting to live on that side of the Pond for absolute AGES, and now the Time had come. Triple HOORAY! Little did I know the fun and the joy that would come of it.

We moved ourselves into a British home with a British swimming pool and an interesting British street address, inserting the two children into a British school. 

The first day of school, friend Rosie drove up to the school with four wiggly children, 3 of them school age (the fourth was too little yet, but did a lot of jumping around inside their van). I knew somehow that this kindly lady smiling at me through the window was going to be a friend. When at the end of the day her daughter and mine walked out the door together, smiles became conversations and we became friends.

Here she is, now:

friend Rosie

All of our children are now grown, and we have time to do things like visiting Cornwall together. It's lovely that she likes to walk as much as I do, cooks like a chef, and laughs at my butchering usage of American style English. 

She is downstairs getting dinner ready so we can drive to where our Mousehole Men will rehearse. We love watching our Mousehole Men. The first time friend Rosie saw them, she and her sister Em stayed up until one in the morning watching Youtube videos of the group! We told the splendid Tony about this but I think it confused him, having no understanding or interest in Youtube or the fact that he might be on it. Humble to the last. 

Some hours later:

OK, we're back and it was awesome. I had no phone with me (it was left sitting on our bathroom sink - again!) so no videos yet, plus it rained on us and steamed up our wet jeans when we got inside the church, but who cared? The fun and the joy of music raising the roof of that gorgeous church in Paul made us forget about wet jeans.

See you along the way!

the SconeLady