Another lovely warm day. Final preparations for the wedding. Marked out the parking space, made the dips, blew up the balloons, got the flowers.
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Finished laying the conservatory floor
Sunday Keith and I finished laying the floor in the conservatory. I only to stick the skirting boards back onto the walls.
Selina and Graham went to a car boot sale and sold of some of her old books and toys she no longer wants.
Reflooring the conservatory
The new wood flooring had arrived during the week, so it had to be laid. I had been to the pub the previous night and spoken to the next-door neighbour. Persuaded him to help lay the flooring.
In the morning, went shopping, picked up a new tie for a future visit to RBS. Rosemary updated the wedding flower order, and bought the tins to bake the wedding cake in.
On the way home picked three kilos of raspberries to make some coulis. This is to be served with the wedding cake.
Started to lay the floor during the afternoon. Laid most of it by 18.00, when we broke and visited John and Carol Curd for an evening meal. Excellent meal.
Weekend at Kingswood
This weekend has been a mixture. Saturday, lots of showers. Some preparation for the wedding, i.e flowers, and making final preparations for the meal and bar.
We paid a quick visit to Waddesdon for tea. Got caught in torrential rain as we left. We pity the people who bought tickets for the outside music show which was going to be played there. The weather was really quite miserable, and didn’t get any better in the evening.
Sunday was a better day, managed to mow the lawn, (first time for three weeks), strim and mow some of the field. Have to get the place into shape before all the outlaws arrive.
About home
Today was an excellent day. Spent quite a long time in the garden mowing the field and lawn. After mowing the lawn I attempted to fill the cracks in the lawn with sand. These cracks have been there for years; caused by the clay soil and the excavations of the moles. I must have used almost ¾ of a cubic meter of sand.
Finished the day with a BBQ and wine. Drowning our sorrows after the defeat of England by France in Euro 2004. Never mind we will get them in the finals.
I was not pleased with a RBS manager who bet on England to win. He said, “no matter the result, he would be happy”.
Kingswood Wotton tug of war
The Kingswood against Wotton BBQ and tug of war was a great success. The weather stayed warm and sunny. The unending supply of burgers and sausages produced by Ian and Julie Smith went down well. The pedigree was on form, being expertly poured by Annie Stanton . The only items not on form were the Kingswood teams. We lost all three tug of war matches. Thanks to Austin Lovell for adjudicating.
Afterwards Jake provided us with a buffet supper in the Plough and Anchor.
Pictures coming soon.
Selina back from university
Selina is back from Liverpool having finished her third and final year at Liverpool.
Laying stepping stones
This weekend was wonderfully warm, so much so we were able to sit out in the garden late Sunday evening eating our barbequed Herrings and sausages. The sunset was magnificent, so much so I ran to the house to get the camera and photo the sun as it dipped below the horizon.
Spent much at Bloomes and Homebase buying bits for the garden, and then mowing the lawn, and laying stepping-stones to the hot tub. We have at last removed the atrocious pallets we laid around the hot tub as temporary decking. It is now back to grass and stepping-stones to gain access.
Several drinks in the Plough and Anchor with friends on the Friday and Saturday.
Bird song day
A three-day holiday, but what horrible weather. Rained all day on Saturday, Rosemary went to visit her parents, I did Tescos and installed a wireless link at the neighbours so they could access the internet through our broadband. The took us our for a meal at the Pheasant in Brill.
Ah Saturday, up at 3:45 to meet up with some other lunatics at Finemere wood to hear the dawn chorus. I have never heard so much noise from a group of people trying to keep quiet. People should not wear all those expensive Gortex jackets. Hey a quite fleece was all that was needed on this rainless warm early morning. We heard some birds, (too numerous for me to name) and then had a walk around in the light to see the bluebells. Finished off with a bacon roll and then back to the house by 8.00 for the rest of the day. This was organised by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Finemere wood is about two miles from us. Though we have never walked through it, we have often visited the pond near by.
A little git of gardening in the afternoon while the weather was fine.
Sunday started off wet and miserable, so a day in front of the PC I think. Maybe a quick visit to the P&A in the evening to sort out the Tug of War.
A warm weekend
The whole of the weekend was warm and sunny and windless. Not a paragliding weekend. Spent most of the time the time gardening, mowing the lawn and burning a lot of old hedging.
Rosemary spent Saturday on a pond-dipping course organised by Bucks CC as part of their “Ponds, Pools and Puddles” survey . She met experts on Dragonflies, Amphibians, Caddis flies, Hover flies and other horrible things, which lurk in ponds.