It is impossible to believe that it is the first of November! Mainly because the weather here has been absolutely fabulous; sunny, mild, slightly breezy. Just today we were out walking with only sweaters on and it was hot! Now if Mother Nature would only serve up the whole winter like this, perfection!

It’s been a busy month work wise, designing and writing new classes and programmes, presenting Masterclasses and keeping up with clients. We’re also about to start blogging for the Huffington Post so we will let you all know where you can find that very soon. We are super chuffed about this!

Blood Swept Land and Seas of Red. There has been a very special art installation happening at the Tower of London to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1. Here are a couple of pictures we took when we visited a couple of weeks ago. It truly takes your breath away, but the pics don’t do justice to the the vastness of it.

What you are looking at is a ‘sea’ of handmade red ceramic poppies filling the moat around the Tower of London. Designed and created by artists Tom Piper and Paul Cummins each poppy is unique and has been ‘planted’ in remembrance of someone who died during the Great War from the U.K. and other Commonwealth countries. By Remembrance Day there will be 900,000 poppies, just short of the 1.2 million who died. It truly is beautiful and moving. We love that each poppy is as unique as the soul that was lost.

That same day we traced some family roots by visiting the London street (Warwick Court) Toby’s Great Great Great (times many!) relative lived on in the late 1400s. Unfortunately the house would have been lost in the Great Fire of 1666, but what an amazing feeling to walk down the same street! We are very proud of Henry, physician to King James 1, President of the Royal College of Physicians for many years, and founder the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.

Then we headed back to the seaside, I guess we really do miss the ocean! The salt air was delicious and the weather cooperated fully! Dr. B decided to have a ‘boo’ out to sea!

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