Darcee
Darcee came to visit me this weekend! It was so wonderful to see her! Lots of talking and books and meandering around London (we went to Greenwich, the Royal Naval Colleges, the Queen's House, the Observatory, Borough Market, the south bank, Southwark Cathedral, National Portrait Gallery, Covent Gardens, Regent’s Park…) Now, Darcee and I went to high school together, but she goes to school in Georgia now and is studying abroad this semester in Slovakia. Her roommate there, Julia, came over with her to visit her cousin Anna Maria who has been working on her masters here in London for the past year. It was actually Anna Maria’s last weekend here so she was trying to say goodbye to friends in addition to going about London with us.
Best of all was just spending time with Darcee, but second best was our excellent find… We went to the fabulous Evangelical Library. Unfortunately it really is a library, so we couldn't buy any of the books we wanted to. But it's packed with books - wonderful books! I'd read every one of them. Excellent leather bounds, hardbacks, old books, new books, theology, commentaries, fiction, children's, biographies and so on. We were ecstatic. Now, as usual, Darcee and I had been talking all weekend about books, but in particular about Elizabeth Gaskell. I've never read any of her books, but Darcee just discovered her and has been recommending her books to me. And of course Darcee and I both love Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre, so when Darcee found a biography of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell... suffice it to say we were a little bit excited. Now we both just have to find copies so we can read it.
Sunday morning we went to St. Helen's - a conservative, not quite High Anglican church in the middle of London that Anna Maria went to the whole time she lived here. I really enjoyed it: it reminded me of home because of the liturgy and all, but most churches over here do, but there was a good sermon and generally familiar music. Actually, they sang one of the hymns to Danny Boy, which was really odd but gorgeous.
Best of all was just spending time with Darcee, but second best was our excellent find… We went to the fabulous Evangelical Library. Unfortunately it really is a library, so we couldn't buy any of the books we wanted to. But it's packed with books - wonderful books! I'd read every one of them. Excellent leather bounds, hardbacks, old books, new books, theology, commentaries, fiction, children's, biographies and so on. We were ecstatic. Now, as usual, Darcee and I had been talking all weekend about books, but in particular about Elizabeth Gaskell. I've never read any of her books, but Darcee just discovered her and has been recommending her books to me. And of course Darcee and I both love Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre, so when Darcee found a biography of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell... suffice it to say we were a little bit excited. Now we both just have to find copies so we can read it.
Sunday morning we went to St. Helen's - a conservative, not quite High Anglican church in the middle of London that Anna Maria went to the whole time she lived here. I really enjoyed it: it reminded me of home because of the liturgy and all, but most churches over here do, but there was a good sermon and generally familiar music. Actually, they sang one of the hymns to Danny Boy, which was really odd but gorgeous.
Pictures will be posted soon.
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