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sleepy castles

well, i suppose the castles weren’t sleepy, but i was. and i figured maybe i really wasn’t but they were, and that’s why i thought i was in the first place.

i also spent a while today trying to figure out why some words in english act as their own plural. it seems that the entire deer family does that: gazelle, antelope, elk, moose, deer. for a while i had a theory that any word ending in “p” was its own plural: pop and poop came to mind. then cousin benjamin said “heaps” and “caps,” and i was ruined. any thoughts?

i’m in newcastle, england. today we saw two castles:

warkworth Warkworth Castle

and dunstanburgh. Dunstanburgh Castle

they were pretty darn cool. i’ll upload some photos tomorrow night perhaps. warkwarth was owned by the percy family until 1987 (when they were still using it for picnics, etc), and that’s the same family that still owns much of northern england. a scene from shakespeare’s “henry iv” is set in warkworth castle, and the character “harry hotspur” is a member of the family. interesting…

yesterday was my birthday, and it was spent napping in the sunshine in howth village outside dublin.

Dublin nap

hannah and i got in to dublin airport at 6:45 am, after getting 1.5 hours of sleep. dr quirky’s and the drinking emporium were both closed, so bought some bread and cheese and headed out to howth village (the peninsula just north of dublin jutting into the irish sea), with a hike in mind. when we got there we found a nice spot of grass on the coast, had a birthday picnic lunch

Dublin picnic

and promptly fell asleep. we read books and slept all afternoon, then went back to the airport and flew here to newcastle.

time for some competitive sudoku with kathy and paul (everyone working on the same puzzle as a race), and hannah and i are pretty sure we’ll get trounced. ah well, hannah won one game of dutch blitz and i won the other earlier this evening, so it’s time for k and p to win.

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2 Responses to “sleepy castles”

  1. eric Says:

    June 6th, 2006 at 9:13 am

    bread and cheese picnic at howth? sounds familiar. add a long trek up to howth head, a widgetted can of guiness, a very strong wind and not much of a view (due to fog) - and i feel right at home. sorry about the lack of emporia, i was looking forward to pictures of Hannah taking you on at Pod Racer, and getting all roudy watching a hurling match over a pint of stout. better luck next time.

    books? naps? what happened to the twelve straight days of buffy that i saw you pack? how do you have time for reading and napping?

    hi to P&K for me. see you in Paris in a week.

  2. jonny Says:

    June 6th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    yes, eric, it did feel like home. due to extreme tiredness, the guinness didn’t seem like a good idea at the time. for the same reason, neither did the long hike (although that was the original idea, because “it will keep us awake”). i can’t say what happened to the fog or the strong wind — i was as surprised as you are.

    we’ll be back in dublin before we fly home, so i’ll try to squeeze in some podracing (and some guinness).

    buffy was very helpful on the plane (2 episodes CHI-JFK, 3 episodes JFK-DUB) and in JFK airport (1 episode), but has been dormant since. we’ll see what we can do about that tonight…