Monday

 Good morning.  It's a dull, grey old day today with a few raindrops on the windows.  The forecast is for showers, sunny intervals (that would be nice) and a strong breeze so who knows?  We will see.

First of all, a few photos.

Beth and Kerry.  They've been really good friends since the first term at secondary when they were put in the same Tutor Group and hit it off.  Kerry's daughter has Elisabeth (spelt with an 's' like Beth) as her second name.

You can see the wedding dress a bit.  The bodice was beautifully beaded and the little shoulder straps cum mini sleeves were beaded and lacy too - I noticed the sleeves specially because they were our wedding present to Kerry, the dress being a bit above her budget (plus a bottle of bubbly so they had something to open).

The skirt was simple and very frothy with a built in train at the back, plus the veil.

You can maybe see it a bit better here and I managed to blank out the face of the child between Kerry and James.  I had to crop it quite heavily on the right, sorry.

It doesn't really show any details of the beading or the sleeves.

And this is a view of the venue.  Pontlands Park.  It's a big, old house, used as a hotel/wedding venue and I might treat myself to a night there at some point.  It looked very pleasant.

I did take lots of other photos, of course, including a lovely one of Beth and the bridesmaids but I know better than to post photos of children without their parents' permission and I'm certainly not going to bother Kerry about permission to post the other lovely one of just Beth and her daughter.

Yesterday was a R&R day and that's just what I did.  I mooched around, doing not-a-lot, picked a few goodies from the allotment, redid my nails, sorted out some gifts on Amazon, planned a few meals and watched a shedload of telly, Youtube and Netflix.
Strictly was lovely - There's just one who I think is pretty much a dud and ought to go next week, if justice is done (not that it always is on Strictly) but the others all showed promise and some were fantastic.  Where did AJ get those long, long legs?  At this early stage, I hope Rose takes the Glitterball because - you know - triumph over adversity, etc, but there are so many who potentially could win.
And Anton is a brilliant judge, a perfect contrast to Craig (who was pretty mellow this week, to be fair).

Today, I have those Three Things on the agenda.

First is Circuit training at Lindsey's.  She's said to bring our mats this week so I suspect my core muscles will be aching terribly afterwards.

Then it is tuition with my one remaining student.  I'm glad tuition is fading out of my life naturally, I'd have hated to abandon any student part way through.  D has this year in year 6 and then we would have stopped anyway.

And then, finally, Dave and Anna are round for dinner, bringing my table with them.  I'll probably be full of that tomorrow.  So before then, I have a dinner to make but I've decided to go simple with hunter's chicken, chips and a salad with fruit salad and yogurt for afters.  They always bring the wine!

Just glancing out of the window, it is now properly raining - boring!  I will have to dodge the raindrops to get the the freezer in the shed.
Have a great day, stay dry and be happy.  xx