Reintroducing Patty to Cambridge

This week was reintroduction to Cambridge week for Patty.


In front of student housing.


To Snow Drops blooming around town...

To Bikes and small mideval steets ....

To College quads .....

To the Cambridge University Press Bookstore - where you can see Kings College Chapel in the windows reflection.

To Cambridge University Senate House .....

To fence bill boards - where you can know all the plays and choirs and speaches happening in Cambridge.

To being with her hubby in England....

To the Hamilton Hotel ....

To enjoying hanging out with the best students in the world ...

Welcome Back Patty!

Feb 06 - 14 : A Week Away from my Kids!

As most of you know by now, I returned to the USA on Feb. 06 to attend the funeral of my father in law - Clifton Knowles.

I missed the students (My kids) who I had spent the past 3 weeks with in Cambridge, Stratford-on-Avon, Oxford and Bath.

Tomorrow (Feb. 15 - Patty will be returning with me to England and the last 7 weeks of the SIE 09 experience. I am excited about Patty meeting some really "great students", who we will know from this point on as "our kids".

Listed below are some group pictures of SIE 09.


The monument in Oxford



The Guildhall in Bath



At Addison's Walk in Oxford.

Feb 02 - a Sad Day / a Happy Day

Feb. 02 . . .When I opened my curtains this morning I was greeted by a beautiful white scene. The weather station said we would have snow all day and the the airports in London were beginning to close one by one.
Then at 8 AM while at breakfast I received a call from Patty telling me that Papaw Knowles had passed during the early morning.

I decided to get out and take in the snow scenes and reflect. I headed toward the city center from the Hamilton Hotel.

Jesus Green walkway

The neighborhood behind our hotel.

Ducks along Jesus Green

Crossing the River Cam on the footbridge.

The Templer's Round Church in the city center.

Bikes at St. Johns College

More Bikes

Kings College Chapel

A church yard in the market square

Fresh squeezed orange juice at old city market

Walking back through Jesus Green

The Kilns (C.S. Lewis' home, Church & the Narnia woods)

The Kilns - C.S. Lewis' home at Headington Quarry




This is the back side of the house.


The Dining Room (l-r) Anna Perry, Emilyn Meeks, Ashley Jackson


The Staircase to the second floor (Lewis' bedroom was on the top floor until his health declined)

A view of the front garden from the dining room window.

The sign from the Eagle & Child Pub (Lewis' hangout with other Oxford professors)

A view from the children's bedroom on the second floor. (David & Douglas Gresham stayed here)

Tessa, Sarah & Anna in the den (notice Asland from Naria on the table)

Lewis' bedroom.

Ashley, Britt, & Amber in the Den.

Nick & Amber in the kitchen.

Students at the front of the house.

Andy sitting in the Kiln's front garden.

Students walking through the front garden.

The cul-de-sac side of the Kilns.










The Pond & the Narnia woods

The pond & woods are to the back of the Kilns. Lewis was inspired by these woods to write Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Our guide telling us how Jack and Warnie Lewis would swim in this pond.

The Headington Church & Cemetery

The front of Headington Church (Lewis attending services here, just down the road from his home.

The church entrance.

The church cemetery where Jack and Warnie Lewis are buried.

As is English tradition, both brothers are buried in the same grave.

Below are some unique crosses in the Headington cemetery.