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I neglected to mention that we spent Wednesday afternoon with and , who drove up from Cambridge. This is Moving Week for them, so HWMBO and I appreciate them taking the time to have lunch with us. In order to obviate the parking problems downtown, they parked here and we walked downtown to The Landing for lunch. Dropped by Crocker Park and Abbot Hall on the way back home, also dropping in on my brother’s shop. There are pictures, and one might appear later. In fact, here it is!

Thursday I’ve written about.

Friday I met my friend Zeke from the sheplist. Lovely guy—we had a walk up to the old part of town where we had lunch at The Muffin Shop: HWMBO’s favourite shop for lobster rolls. Well, when we were almost finished with our meals HWMBO showed up and joined us for a lobster roll and conversation. There is also a picture from today which I will post anon, anon being right now:

That evening my brother and sister took us to the Outback for our now traditional steak meal. I had a prime rib which was absolutely perfect—in contradistinction to the one I had on Thursday. Back home to bed.

Yesterday was shopping day. We got some stuff for my brother’s computer, some stuff for us (clothes, peanut butter, things like that), and enjoyed ourselves. Steak tips for dinner, barbecued on the grill outside. My brother shared a rack of lamb with a friend, Wendy. It was his first taste of lamb, and he thinks he’d like it when not heavily spiced up. Last night/this morning there were several rather loud thunderclaps that served to keep me awake longer than I should have been.

Today’s scheduled events are lunch with Dawn Bucket, the local columnist for the Marblehead Reporter. Why “Dawn Bucket”, you ask? In Marblehead up until the 19th century, the sewers were open channels along the road (as was true in England up until Bazalgette and the Victorian sewers). When one arose, the contents of the chamber pot needed disposal. Thus, the homeowner would open a window and yell “Whip!” to attract the attention of passers-by, who would take cover/move rapidly away and then yell “Down Bucket!”, at which point the contents of the chamber pot would be tossed from the window into the sewer. The challenge/response “Whip!/Down Bucket!” became a Marblehead catchphrase, and thus the Pyramids.

After lunch, we’ll be off to Best Buy to pick up one more item for the computer, and then our farewell dinner for HWMBO, who returns to London tomorrow afternoon. I am here until Wednesday, when I fly to Washington DC.

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