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!