A boozy weekend after our return from Cornwall! (I initially wrote “busy” weekend, but boozy is more accurate). Ian and Svitlana dropped off Steven and Sherry shortly before 11pm on Friday night, shortly before we were going to bed! It had been a tiring journey from Mousehole. We stayed up for an extra “bedtime drink” – just to be sociable, of course.
On Saturday Les, Alain, Steven and Sherry visited Andree, spending the afternoon at the Kafir pub in Whetstone
before all, together with Ian and Svitlana, returned here in a taxi, had dinner, and they all headed down the road to my local pub in Croft, once Chantal and I had kitted them out with head torches – not a requirement for London based pub crawls! Chantal and I joined them shortly afterwards, once the study had been converted into a bedroom for Ian and Svitlana.
After another visit to Andree in the morning, the pub crawl continued on Sunday afternoon, as all except Chantal and I (other than providing a taxi service) headed for the Bluebell in Stoney Stanton to watch a football match, although Ian and Svitlana spent extra time with Andree and joined the others later. It’s good to see that some of the wealth in London gets spent in the local area.
After the match we had a few minutes to take a group photo (well, several group photos)
before the Londoners headed south leaving me, Chantal Alain and Leslie to spend a very pleasant evening chatting until late under a full moon on our patio (although Les was briefly interrupted by a call from Ruthie).
A late night was possibly a bad move since we had to leave at 6 the following morning to deliver Les to Heathrow. Which just leaves Alain, who doesn’t fly back to Canada until Friday.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
