Lets see what was going on September we had a new member of our household come in…
Karma would move in almost a month after us, well she started moving small stuff over a little at a time, and didn’t actually sleep over for the first month… Karma got a suite of rooms, a bedroom, living room, closet/hallway, bathroom, and a true kitchen… Her rooms are on the third floor above the Garden Bar… She didn’t have any carpet of wood flooring, her main room was just the basics… Karma is one of those sweet girls wrapped in a tough exterior, with a heart that is huge…
Janet and I ventured up to Edinburgh to poke around the Elephant House Cafe… This is the cafe where JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter… If you know me you know how much I love these books… They changed my life, they changed my sons life and for that they will hold a place in my heart like no other… My son and I read these books out loud to each other, we started when he was in the sixth grade, half way through the first I was buying the next two… We would wait with the rest of the world on the edge of our seats to get the next one… My son was 19 when the last one was released, and we locked the front door and spent the weekend reading… Switching back and forth when we were too emotional to continue, or just hoarse from non stop talking… Someday I will be besties with JK, mostly cause I just have to… How amazing to be the woman behind these stories…
Janet and I got off the bus on Princess street and walked up to the park, and past the swing dancers, dancing beside the museum… We walked up to the cafe and had lunch and took pictures like everyone else… We also ventured to the nearby cemetery, to see if the tablets contained names of characters… When we entered the gates, an older gentleman who was closing the main building asked in a very adorable Scottish accent if he could help us find something??? I told him that I had heard there were character names on some of the tablets, he said that it had never been confirmed that she had taken names from here… However if we ventured this way we would find a tablet with the name McGonagall, he said this was a very well known poet and tragedian… He says this stone reads the death in 1902, however the stone was placed after the release of the first movie… Then he directed us down to another tablet that reads Tom Riddle and his son Tom Riddle, this one reads 1819 and has been there since then…. I think we have a winner! We headed back to the bus area after stopping at Starbucks (of course), and then back into Darlington… We had a lovely day out…
Things had started to settle in the big house by the end of September, and we began our regular everyday stuff… Yes we would still be having get togethers from time to time but for the most part went back to lives we had led before the adventure of this big old building…