Paula & Dave: Wedding breakfast

Last lot of photos - the wedding breakfast and speeches

Paula & Dave: Portraits

Group and portrait shots in the garden

Paula & Dave: Garden Reception

And a few from the drinks reception in the garden.

Paula & Dave: A few from the ceremony

I managed to take just a few photos during the ceremony

Paula & Dave's Wedding: Before the main event

Click here to see the photos from the evening and the morning before Paula & Dave's wedding

Paula and Dave's Wedding

Hi everyone

It's been almost a month since the fantastic celebration that was Paula & Dave's wedding.  It was a brilliant weekend for everyone, and the sunshine was the icing on the cake.  Or rather, the icing on the cake was the icing on the cake, but you know what I mean.

Paula and Dave looked the part and they were all smiles.  It was obviously infectious, because everyone was having a great time in the garden, during the delicious meal and on the dancefloor.  Poppy, Peter and Euan played their part, looking gorgeous and joining in the celebrations.

Dave, Paula, we're privileged to have been a part of your day and love you both!

Ace.

Now for the photos...

Sofa, so good

Not actual sofa

Hurray! After a nervous few months since Habitat went into administration, they have finally delivered our new sofa!

That makes 4 in total, so we need plenty of visitors to fill them all.

x

National Tour Week #3

To Shropshire!

On Friday evening, we hit the M1 and M6 towards Sarah, Rob and Lucy in Shropshire. We're getting quite good at this weekend travel lark, and we almost got Euan into the cot at Sarah & Rob's house without him waking Lucy. Tim had to dive into a nearby room so that Lucy wouldn't come stumbling out of her bedroom, bleary-eyed, to find a strange man standing in the hallway!

We had another fantastic weekend, especially seeing it had been so long since we'd met up with any of the Court family. A new addition to their family is due in October, and Lucy is growing up fast. She's a really articulate 2-yr-old, and polite, and loves a good story!

We took a trip to Attingham Park, Euan jumped into the rucksack and we walked through the woods and the walled gardens and played on the swings before heading to the courtyard for a packed lunch and a coffee. On Sunday morning, we exhausted Euan and Lucy (and Tim) in the Play Barn before having lunch at a the Battlefield 1403 farm shop and hitting the road for Harpenden.

... So thank goodness for Bank Holiday Mondays! The 3 of us popped off to the Stockwood Discovery Centre, just round the corner, for lunch and a wander round the gardens (it's freeee!) before an afternoon's recuperation and some preparations for the big wedding weekend. A 3 day week, and then it's upon us!

Rain

Of course, this isn't the worst weather we've had this year; just the worst we've had this summer.

Take a look at what the rain did to one of our favourite trees in May. Jo and Barry helped stitch it back together and it seems to be doing well...

May at the farm with Archie

In weather like this, we have to look back to May to remember the days when we thought summer was still ahead of us. Back then, Rach, Tobes and Archie came over to stay (see our May entry in the right-hand menu) and we took a trip to the farm.

As well as a lovely farm shop and cafe it had plenty to keep us all busy, from hamsters and rabbits to sheep shows, dog displays, piglets and a baby llama (just a few days old). Oh, and a turkey.

The boys really enjoyed themselves, as they did in Norfolk a fortnight ago. Photos from that weekend will follow, but in the meantime please click here or on the photo above to see our pictures from the farm.