It's been a while. My travels were great, but they were also demanding, tiring, exhausting... and I've not quite recovered. As soon as I got back from Canada, it was straight to work - the holiday period is well and truly over.
Lots of wonderful things have happened since then:
- My parents spent some time in London, so I spent a lot of time catching up with them, which was brilliant, and we had an excellent meal at the Oxo Tower, and then an (even though I do say it myself) excellent Sunday dinner here... the key thing about this is that John met my parents, and my parents went John - and it all went pretty well, they seem to like each other! I discovered that John also makes excellent roast pork!
- I went to Jersey for Debbie's hen night - which was just brilliant - we had a lovely spa day and then an excellent meal in the evening. Not such a good plan to stay out at a party until 4am, but nevermind!
- And then, to top it all and end the month of September in style, Debbie and David's wedding. Words fail me a bit because it was such an amazing day and a fantastic weekend - the day was just perfect, the service touching, the food and drink spot on, and the company brilliant. John met all my 'local friends' and went down a storm, and it couldn't have been better. Mixing Bloody Mary's in the honesty bar of the hotel at 3am guaranteed another late night though... and then John had a whistle stop tour of Jersey, in the rain!
One thing I've been reflecting on as the weekend concludes is how great it was to have all of the 'girls' together - Debbie, Jenny, Jenna, Charlotte, Nikki and me. We all went out, as is traditional, on Christmas Eve last year, and calculated that it was the first time we'd all been together in about 5 years (memory failures meant we couldn't be quite sure, we must be getting old!). I said, rather drunkenly in a speech at the end of the meal, that we needed more weddings... and sure enough, within three weeks, we had two engagements!
The hen nights and weddings have meant that we've all been together four times this year, which has been totally fab (and with partners at the weddings, mostly, too!). A very happy Kate... apart from a three hour delay to get back to London last night.
And also, wedding news from this side of the channel - Tania and Rich got engaged on Wednesday, which is brilliant news - and it seems they don't fancy a long engagement, so roll on their wedding, the first amongst the Act2 people... can't wait!
That'll mean (if I get invited!) that I've been to 8 weddings in the past three years, and have four to come next year... good job I love them!
Photos will be in the usual place soon - although not as many as usual, it's more difficult to take loads when you're actually involved in the day!
