Ambleside

Bridge House at Ambleside.

A street in Ambleside.

Rydal Mount. Wordsworth's house.

Ambleside

Stock Ghyll waterfall

A grocers shop in Ambleside

Rydal lake near Ambleside.

Bluebells at Rydal in early May.

Ambleside and Lake Windermere.

A pub, The Royal Oak in Ambleside.

A restaurant

An evening view of the park in spring

A waterwheel. The building is now a shop selling woolen goods.

Stock Ghyll river.

The bluebells at Rydal in May.

Ambleside is the next town to my home town of Keswick. It is quite central in the Lake District and a convenient place to stay for visiting various places.

Quiztime!!

Whose house is this?

(hint. He has been in the news recently)

RE-Call

Good evening (or good whatever depending on when you read this)

You may have noticed but were too kind to point out that I made a mistake

in today's lesson.......oops!

Of course "Hakusai" is Chinese cabbage, not white radish.

Did you notice?

I didn't until it was too late.

Thanks for coming today.

It was a bit chilly.

Take care

Nick

All well?

It was a blustery day today.

Odwara must be Chicago's (The windy city) sister city.

See some of you on Wednesday!

LIBERTY TANA LAWN

I scanned some Liberty Tana Lawn cotton fabric and this is what happened.

THE WORLDS' BEST HUSBAND AWARDS

USA

Poland

Greece

Serbia

IRELAND

BRITAIN

Please vote for the best husband in the world from the above pictures.

It's cold these days , isn't it?

I hope you aren't feeling the cold so much.

Sorry to hear about Tomoko and her bad cold.I hope you are better, Tomoko!

On Wednesday we welcomed Chiyori to the class.

Maybe she cannot attend so often, but she will always be very welcome.

Yoshimi finally moved to Odawara and is living among many cardboard boxes.

No! She is not homeless!! Just it takes much time to move in to a new house.

Kie's daughter went to Australia to live and study for a year this week.

If Kie looks lonely.......try to cheer her up.

Thanks also to Kumiko, Tamami and Akiko for braving the cold on Wednesday.

See you soon!!!

Here is the link to the Victoria Rose tearoom website.
It is under construction at the moment and will be in Japanese also in the future.
If you have any ideas feel free to let me know.

http://victoriarosetearoom.webs.com/aboutus.htm

New Year Greetings

A Happy New Year to you all.

I hope lovely things happen to you all this year (and other years , of course)

There will not be a class until the 13th at the International Lounge.

Please get in touch over this blog if you feel your English is

becoming a bit "rusty"

Merry Christmas to you all.
Have a lovely time!

Good evening.
Today, I could have a very enjoyable lunch with
five lovely ladies. Thanks for coming and thanks for all the nice things.
After lunch we went upstairs and took part in the tombola.
Sorry to say we could only win an imitation ponsettia each.
See you soon.
Nick

Shep and Scotty both checked the Christmas tree but differed in their opinion on what should go on the top.

I wonder if her name is Victoria Rose?

Many Happy Returns of the Day to Akiko!!!

Did everyone have a fulfilling weekend?
I hope so.
Christmas is just around the corner so I'd like to
ask you what you would like for Christmas.

evolution

Victorian children

Anyone for tea?

Just to let you know that the Christmas lunch
will just be at the restaurant. We won't meet at the lounge.
But we can talk about it later.
Have a lovely weekend!

Today the weather is not so good.
I have a bicycle ride ahead of me soon
I am dreading it!
It was good to see everyone yesterday.
The Christmas party has been settled.
Beer Italiano on the 16th at 11:30.
I think we can meet at at the lounge at the usual time
and go from there. (I'll get back to you on that.)
It seems there is quite a lot of food so have a light breakfast!!
(or bring a doggy bag)
After checking the venue we went upstairs to the second hand shop,
We bought some things and got some tickets enabling
us to take part in the tombola, which by chance is on the same day as
our party. How convenient!
Take care.

At least we have enough space tomorrow morning.
See some of you there.