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Published: June 21st 2007
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Baby Leo
He shares his birthday with Brigid! A little delayed on the update for south of england... apologies but the blame is to be put on Lachlans bad mood and a dodgy computer that loost a whole entry that Brigid typed up... ergo... Brigid AND Lachlan both in bad mood... oooer.
ANyway/// current location is Istanbul and we are on the keyboard from hell expect many strange and wonderful characters/punctuation all over the place/ It seems that every special character key types either / or great huh/
Trip in s england was very relaxing which was needed after ridiculous flight from US. Spent a couple of days at Christine and Pauls and did essentially nothing. Drank good beer and ate good food albeit too much/ Set of for Devon and Ken/Jos wedding on 13th. Arrived for a nights stay at Shane and Paulas in Salisbury /Shane is Lachlans brother... great surprise! Their second child... another boy was born that very morning. Brigid is especially excited as that is her birthday too/ One gets old enough to quit and another comes in!!!! Ha ha ha ha!
Next day travelled on towards general direction of Kingsbridge/Hope Cove/Pending Wedding/ ON Shanes reccomendation stopped by Ludlow Cove/// exhausting
The New McVay Family
Shane, Paula, Steven (with Cardinals t-shirt!!) and new Leo 2 mile mountain climb to durdle door... might have been worth it... ! ·Judge foryourself from the pic/
Didnt know where to go next until we saw randomly that we were close on the borders of a small town called/// wait for it... cos this is really special//// BEER! Yes! The town is called BEER!~
Couldnt resist and pulled in there for the night/ Very small... with a manic church bell ringer guy that we can only assume had consumed too much of his towns favourite tipple/ Lots of interesting signs such as "Beer Divers Club" "Beer Social Club" and my personal favourite... "Beer served here". Followed the last sign into a classy old little pub for dinner and a pint and discovered another old favourite of ours inside "Beer... helping ugly people have sex since XXX". The exes shoulds be a date like 1812 or something but we've spent too long arguing over exactly whgat year it was and can't agree on something suitably amusing to substitute in it's place/ I am starting to get the hatgn of the special characters I think! I have found a bunch... I really wish I could make the keyboard type
Durdle Door, Ludlow, Dorset
A hike to get here! Might have been worth it... what is written on the keys... print it out on textile and you'd have a great carpet such as is on sale EVERYWHERE here in Istanbul!
Next stop after beer was a gentle drive through precariously tiny roads and near death happenings with uncoming lorries. Finally pulled into Hope Cove/ scene of the big event and met up with sister Alicia and her boyf Stuart. Waited FOREVER for other sister Ariadne and her boyf Jamie to find the place before finally setting to on the largest fish and chips dinner ever conceived/ Should have been renamed to Whale and Chips methinks.
3 nights in Hove Cove/ Three Hangovers/ Three mornings of Brigid staying in bed while Lachlan drags himself down to big english breakfast. Okay okay... so Brigid did make it to 2 of them... but one doesn't count cos she was such a wreck from the night before! Brigid says 'Whatever"/
The wedding itself was fantastic great food.... huge crabs and such and a whole spit=roasted pig. Excellent fare washed down with many an alcoholic beverage. Lachlan kept very busy with best man duties by his very demanding groom /is it right to refer to him
as Lachlans groom? Probably not but you get the picture.../. Beautiful location that was shone up only by the bride... Jo you looked fantastic... was hoping that maybe you would go for the better dressed man when you got to the end of the aisle but I guess you saved me an earful from Brigid by sticking with Ken... and some legal problems too I suppose! Speech went okay... was following Ken so could hardly fail to impress to some degree! Ken I love you really... youre just an easy target what with not being here to defend yourself/
Okay... finished off the trip with a train to Edinburgh and two nights there before flying through Luton to Istnabul/ after failing miserably to get any sleep in our 10 hour layover in Luton airport. / Istanbul seems like a very interesting and somewhat strange place... but that is for the next entry/ It is hot and hospitable... the evenings call to prayer were very affecting... mournful almost.
Really should go now though... this entry is typically huge of me I suppose.
We are thinking of you all... happy birthday to brendan and happy father.s day to Brigids
dad.
More to come.... if you can bear it...
ok just tried to upload photos\ besides dodgy keyboard...dodgy old computer too that won't take USB. so...picts to follow later of England drive, Baby Leo, and the wedding... Love to all!
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Brendan
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Hey Guys! Good to Hear from you. Thank you for calling on my Bday!! Sorry we got cut off, stupid phone cards. Thanks again for the call, and I look forward to seeing the pictures.