From the monthly archives:
I had a frantic call from my friend Thelma this morning. Her daughter, who is a Junior Lifeguard, was doing the Pier Jump. I rushed down to Balboa Pier to see her jump and off she went, no hesitation, straight into the water.
The Junior Lifeguard program runs for eight weeks during the summer. As soon [...]
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We toured Hearst Castle last week during a drive up the coast. It sits up in the hills above San Simeon, near Cambria. It’s a fascinating place to stop and a good place to break your journey as you travel along Highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Monterey.
William Randolph Hearst created the estate during [...]
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There are certain parenting milestones that make all the sleepless nights, whining, chaos and mess worth it. We had one of our very best ones yet on Sunday night.
We took our oldest son to see Coldplay in concert at the Verizon Amphitheatre in Irvine. He’s a huge Coldplay fan, knows all their songs but is [...]
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I have to say, the fishing wasn’t bad. The day was gorgeous, lovely and warm and the boat hugged the coast as opposed to heading out to sea. I’d expected a few hours of looking at nothing but a horizon of water, but we headed down the coast to Laguna Beach. It’s a gorgeous beach [...]
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I’m a mother of two boys. My life is filled with boogers, farts, burps and dirt. They pretend to kill things as we walk down the street, blow things up and fight one another. Mothers with girls look upon mothers with boys with disgust. Our parenting skills are considered to be poor because we can’t [...]
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I want all the tourists to leave!
It’s fascinating living in a tourist city; we’ve been completely inundated with tourists. They’re everywhere! I grew up in a small English village. No tourist invasion in the summer, just the same year round, so I love watching the dynamic of all these people arriving, determined to have a [...]
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I feel like I’ve overloaded on 80s music over the last couple of weeks. What with Michael Jackson’s music being played constantly everywhere and seeing Duran Duran in concert on Saturday night, we’ve had 80s flashbacks daily.
We dug through my LP collection on the day of Michael Jackson’s death. I wasn’t a huge Michael Jackson [...]
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We’ve been exploring various ways to take to the water and explore Newport Harbor. The harbor here (and yes, I’m using the American spelling, sorry) is really interesting with islands and canals, so it’s a fascinating place.
We absolutely love it, so do the boys and we’ve been trying to think what would be the best [...]
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We’re still recovering from the 4th July. The flags and decorations still need to be taken down, rubbish taken away and the tourists are slowly leaving.
It was wild! We’ve celebrated the Fourth on the peninsula before, but this time we were in a different area and speaking to locals, it’s just got bigger and bigger [...]
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I promised I’d post my 4th of July decorations and actually, they’re not as tacky as I’d planned. Martha Stewart must have been watching out for me.
Whatever country you’re in, whatever nationality you are, if you’re celebrating it:
Happy 4th July!
Have a great weekend!
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