Newsflash! Jo and Tim are going on holiday

Jo and Tim have decided to escape London for a week and will be taking up residence in a yurt in Devon from Friday. For details, click here. We'll be back next Friday (31st).

P.S. A very happy birthday to mum Reid! xx

Two weddings later...

This weekend, we were in Lancashire for Jodie and Sam's wedding. Once again, our friends somehow defied the weather forecast and had stunning sunshine for the whole day. Photos will follow shortly.

Taking the train was far more civilised than driving all the way up. We stayed in a nice hotel in Lancaster for 2 nights and the wedding reception was at Leighton Hall, Carnforth. Jodie, as always, looked radiant. Sam looked tall. Tim was amazed to find that Jodie's mum remembered him from the days when he shared a house with Jodie in Durham ('97-'98)! Toby, Rachel, Keith and Cath were also there: Cath sporting a 6-month bump.

Tim's only complaint about the weekend was the bride and groom's decision to leave a cask of local beer lying around for guests to help themselves throughout the evening. That idea presumes a certain amount of self-control on the part of the guests, and Tim (amongst others) woke on Sunday with a bit of a sore head and without the brand new £20 umbrella he'd bought barely 24 hours earlier. Thanks must go to Jo for ensuring Tim found his way safely into the taxi with all his other belongings...

Emily and Tim's wedding photos are now sorted and on kodak. Click on the photo for a link to the slideshow.

10 July

Hi everyone

We've had plenty to talk about over the last 2 weeks, but I've been resisting the urge to blog until the photos from Em & Tim's wedding and from our weekend in Chipping Campden were ready. That hasn't quite happened yet, so to tide you over you'll find (by clicking above) a few photos from mum and dad following mum's, er, "30th" birthday celebrations.

Emily and Tim's wedding was great. The sun came out throughout the day and we had a perfect summer's evening by the time we'd moved from the church to the reception. The speeches were brilliant: by the sounds of things Tim was lucky to survive a series of childhood accidents (all of which were entirely his own fault), let alone make it to his own wedding day. We've got some great photos, which will follow soon.

The DIY is painstakingly slow (Tim seems to be doing everything, for obvious reasons), but this Sunday may be the day that the bathroom finally gets a new coat of paint.

Chipping Campden was a great weekend. You were either there or will already have heard all about it afterwards. Poppy was on great form and Peter slept all the way through dinner in the posh restaurant (although that didn't stop a snooty couple muttering under their breath about taking small children to restaurants, miserable gits).

We hear Poppy's not been well this week and Tim and Lucy are trying to persuade her to take some tamiflu... Harking back to our conversation last weekend, I think crushing it up in a spoonful of jam is the traditional route? We're sending her all our love, though, for a quick recovery of her health and her appetite!