So here is a quick photographic journey through the 1st 2 weeks of July... I also put some other photos on Flickr (see link on right hand side).
It started off with a trip to wet wet wet Brighton, on the way we found Ditchling Crescent where Groo, Gramps, Mum and AA once lived for 6 months...
It started off with a trip to wet wet wet Brighton, on the way we found Ditchling Crescent where Groo, Gramps, Mum and AA once lived for 6 months...
Then there were yummy cocktails with the Nadj in a random Lebanese restaurant in Soho...
Then there was the most marvelous Welsh Wedding of the Year. Really 'Hello' and 'OK' should have been there... perhaps they were? A really lovely day, everything was more than perfect... congratulations to Rachel and Steve ;o)Making seating labels to go round roses on the tables
Getting our nails done... don't ask about the hairband... a remnant from the hen weekend I believe
The reception venue... and look its sunny!
The wedding party (I think that's what you call us?!)
Ant, and me in my bridesmaid get up
After le wedding, we toodled off to the Peak District, where we had a nice time, camping, walking (lots), getting blisters, eating enough fresh dairy products to compensate for the next 3 months... and hiring a tandem (very exciting, and now features in the plan to cycle the length of New Zealand)... actually the tandem is strange. Being the smallest I had to ride on the back. You get to see more than I thought, (ie not everything is obscured by the person in fronts back) but it is weird not having control over anything... you don't need to think about steering or gears - that is all up to the person in front. So you can just sing songs, day dream, look around and be responsible for indicating at the appropriate moments... as long as you don't stop peddling all is fine...Camping near Edale... actually we nearly started camping in a field full of charging sheep (well ok many non-charging sheep and 1 charging sheep... seriously a baby sheep charged at me - there was a certain degree of mocking at me finding this quite distressing). We thought the sheep field was our campsite, until we started talking to the only other happy campers in the big field of sheep and they said there were no facilities apart from a sink... which didn't sound like what we booked... so we continued down the lane and found out sheep-less field avec shower which was far superior and only £1 a night extra!
Ant with the tandem!
Perry/cider stop - Cave looking down on Biggin/ Woolfscote Dale
We hiked up above Ladybower reservoir, to an amazing ridge of stacks of stone in order to find "The Salt seller", see below, which features in the most wonderous BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice when Lizzy is on holiday with her aunt and uncle and hikes up to take in the Derbyshire views... prooving she is not a constrained Victorian. Alas no Mr Darcy sitings were had, but it was beautiful!
Orange boy... with an orange - at the salt sellar
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