The Land of Austen and Lewis

                                        

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 I don't know if soaking one's feet is a viable treatment for what we now call 'corns'. But since there is plenty of water on tap here in our cottage, and warm water feels good anyway, I shall soak them.

While I soak, I am thinking of how terrific it is to have married someone who is perfectly happy to go to and be at the places I like to go to and be at. It has been like this for a long time, starting with joining the Air Force and being given assignments in foreign lands. I hoped the foreign lands would be lands where they spoke English and shared similar cultural habits (a.k.a. England). And then when our first assignment was to a base in England, I couldn't believe it. It seemed miraculous. The land of Jane Austen and CS Lewis would be mine!

There was Oxford, and tea with crumpets, and driving on the wrong side of the roads, and Her Majesty the Queen, not to mention the excitement over Prince Charles and Lady Di, followed by Prince William. 

Because of that assignment, and then the next one (also England), our children have made friends here and kept them. Our mothers have come; our siblings have come; our friends have come; and we ourselves have been coming back, and will keep coming for as long as time allows.

And it's all because I married someone who is perfectly happy to go to and be at the places I like to go to and be at. Starting with joining the Air Force.

See you along the way!

the SconeLady