The weekend of 7th-9th August saw us meeting up in Essex with friends from Steve’s university days.

This year from our base in a quiet country village courtesy of our hosts, Richard & Andrea, we visited Frinton-on-Sea and honed our sandcastle building techniques before a visit to Beth Chatto’s Gardens.  Richard & Andrea had done their usual brilliant organization, including a Community mini-bus, and had topped it all with wonderful sunny weather.

Rather a lot of talking, drinking & eating was done, but it made a splendid weekend and photos can be found at https://www.blasdale.com/blog/picture-albums/blasdale-picture-gallery-2009/sadgits/ The leading lady is Andrea and the house, in Frinton, is where Richard’s grandparents had lived and hence his knowledge of that quintessentially English seaside town.