The ones that got away

2 weddings & a drug’s bust! July & August 2010 Well on to the main event Caroline & Murray’s wedding! After lots of organising the week before the wedding Murray is taken into hospital with an abbess in his throat. It was either let the doctors cut into the side of his neck in which case he will miss the wedding or a rather horrible aesthetic free version that I will not go into. Bless him, he went for the later! It was touch and go & very little sleep as to whether he would make the wedding or not, but Murray had promised when he thought it was a cold that he would be there no matter what! I am proud to say he did make it!! The night before was Chinese take away night ... read more

THE ROYAL CORNWALL SHOW Lorna came home from her holiday in Bergarac on Tuesday and regaled us with her holiday stories, she was also happy to see all of the work that the four of us had put in around the house and garden. On Thursday it was the Royal Cornwall Show, we were up and away really early, i.e. 6am as we had to get through the traffic before the show started arriving at the showground, luckily we got to park in the exhibitors car park close to the Southern entrance. We got in with no problems thanks to Digory supplying us with a couple of show tickets. We were very impressed with the new shearing shed and hung out there for a couple of hours as we had arrived about 7.30am, we got to ... read more

CORNWALL - THE HOMECOMING The journey down was surprisingly easy and trouble free, it was quite nice for Charlotte to be watching the countryside go by rather than driving! Caroline met us on the Royal Parade in Plymouth just after 10pm and whizzed us home to her house. A couple of glasses of wine and a quick catch up, along with present giving, then Caroline and Murray were off to bed. And we had a couple of hours to unwind and watch Cranberry (their cat) bring in a mouse play with it then chase it up the curtains before we too were off up the stairs. Caroline and Murray went off to work and left us with the run of the house, and the dead mouse in the middle of the living room carpet (Cranberry 1 ... read more

BISHOP STORTFORD After Julia dropped us to the station on another fine day (we were really lucky this week and it felt like summer all over again!), we jumped on the train, changed at Cambridge then got off at another lovely little station in Bishop Stortford. Andy picked us up and as Annie (Liams god daughter) had not been told he was back in the country, let alone coming to visit, there was lots of excitement in the house, after the initial hiding behind legs. A beer in the garden, then Liam baths both Annie and Alex and reads them stories before sleepy time was upon them. Friday night is Chinese take away night in the Ramsey-Reeder household and they were generous enough to include us in the evenings feast. Full to the very top of ... read more