Fantastic wedding yesterday

Yesterday, Alison and Andrew got married at Longstowe Hall. It was a fantastic wedding: beautiful venue (a Tudor country house with an elaborate garden and some rather enthusiastic wall-freizes), fantastic company, marvellous food and a spectacular wedding cake with a spaniel, followed by a ceilidh sufficiently enthusiastic that I noticed I'd torn both sleeves off my favourite yellow silk shirt.

You can see a few more photos on Facebook; contact me if you want prints or enormous versions for making your own prints.

I own a house

All the lawyers performed their strange lawyerly rituals; I have paid the solicitors enough to buy two cases of Laithwaites' best sauternes, HMRC enough stamp-duty to fund one junior nurse for six weeks, and the Land Registry the price of a decent mobile phone. On Friday after lunch I picked up the keys. Now I have:

an end-of-terrace house with

a kitchen with tiles with rabbits on,

the most seventies hallway ever,

and an overgrown garden with both the most amazing orange flowers and an outbuilding with net curtains