LOVELY Steven van Hemert came in April. Here he is in Central Park, in spring.
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MARK Gevisser also visited. He was especially admiring of my new-found skill of putting together Ikea furniture. Clive Cope, who has done a lot of this in France, will vouch for the huge talent it requires to progress from flat Ikea box to a functional piece of furniture. And if he's not willing to, he's lying...
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THEN came Bea and our friend, Hedwig (known as "Piering") Schoonakker (née Van Coller). Bea and Jonny and I drove from New York to Boston, where we collected Piering from Logan airport, and drove to Exeter. Bea wasted absolutely no time hitting the bars to socialise with her school friends from Phillips Exeter Academy, who were all there for their 25th reunion (sorry, fifth reunion). After Exeter, we drove to Conway, in the White Mountains, to stay with Bea's American family, Dick and Connie Brown.
Bea in front of a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where we live
Bea and her friend Laura, who lives in New York. We went to the opening of an art exhibit with Laura
Bea and Piering shopping for I LOVE NEW YORK shirts near the Empire State Building
Organ pipes, don't you think? Sarah, Bea, Piering and Jonny in front of Inn by the Bandstand, where we stayed in Exeter
Near the library on Exeter Academy's campus
Piering and Bea in the school library, which was designed by Louis Kahn
Hey, tell Dick Brown that Luke Setzer, NCSSM Class of 1984, said howdy! I took Calculus BC from him my senior year in high school. I got a C in the class but scored a 3 on the AP test and a semester of credit at NCSU! Hooray! Those were the days. I read somewhere that author Dan Brown has a father named Dick Brown. Are they one and the same man?
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Bea in front of a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where we live
Bea and her friend Laura, who lives in New York. We went to the opening of an art exhibit with Laura
Bea and Piering shopping for I LOVE NEW YORK shirts near the Empire State Building
Organ pipes, don't you think? Sarah, Bea, Piering and Jonny in front of Inn by the Bandstand, where we stayed in Exeter
Near the library on Exeter Academy's campus
Piering and Bea in the school library, which was designed by Louis Kahn
We went walking with Dick Brown
Bea with her family: Dick, Connie and Liz
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Hey, tell Dick Brown that Luke Setzer, NCSSM Class of 1984, said howdy! I took Calculus BC from him my senior year in high school. I got a C in the class but scored a 3 on the AP test and a semester of credit at NCSU! Hooray! Those were the days. I read somewhere that author Dan Brown has a father named Dick Brown. Are they one and the same man?
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