Celebration: Opening of the Charing-X, Euston & Hampstead Railway (later the Northern Line), 1907
Mission: Go somewhere by tube
Status: Foiled by TFL
Notes: The Charing X, Euston & Hampstead Railway was opened on this day in 1907, and merged with the City & South London Railway in the 1920s to become the Morden-Edgware Line, and was renamed as the Northern Line in August 1937. It was closed today.
Celebration: Opening of Vauxhall Bridge (1906)
Mission: Go and say “Happy Birthday”
Status: Failed
Notes: As regular readers may have noticed, yesterday we went to Devon. That wasn’t just a day trip, we’re here all week… as such we’re a long way from the River Thames.
Celebration: Dr Seuss’ Birthday
Mission: Read “Green Eggs and Ham” to Reuben
Status: Complete
Notes: Dr Theodor Seuss was born on this day in Massachusetts in 1904. He wrote “Green Eggs and Ham” in 1960 using only 50 unique words – can you name all fifty in five minutes? Reuben read some of the pages himself, albeit in a slightly paraphrased version, doing different voices for the two principle characters. But what next? So many to choose from:
We went on to read Mr Brown Can Moo, Can You? followed by Oh the Thinks You Can Think:
And we finished up with The Cat in the Hat Comes Back but don’t ask me what Voom is, I never will know, but boy let me tell you it does clean up snow…
Celebration: Premiere of “The Cherry Orchard” (1904)
Mission: Buy a bag of Haribo cherries – or dress Eva in the cherry tights.
Status: More or less complete
Notes: A Russian play is best celebrated with some Tangfastics:
Couldn’t find Eva’s cherry tights, so she wore these instead:
A Year of Celebration 