One wedding, no funeral (thank goodness)...

So, as you know I’m enjoying some time off, yay!  I seem to be cramming quite a lot of stuff into this little bit of time that I’ve had away from work.  It’s not all been fun though.  I’ve had to go back into work to supervise one of my students who has been doing some research for me over the summer.  With all the riots that have occurred I’ve also been dragged back into the work ‘fold’ again by having to radio interviews.  I ended up doing another one for BBC radio Lincolnshire.  That didn’t go as well as the BBC Nottingham interview.  They put even more words in my mouth, so to speak, and didn’t allow me to ‘get in’ what I wanted.  Well, I’ve learnt my lesson with that one.  Next time I do an interview, I’m going to go in with an agenda.  Know what I want to say, and say it!  Anyway, I’ll try and post the links to you if I can and you can see for yourself how little I got to actually qualify J  hey ho.

Well, I should say that as I write this I am sat in a very cute little pub in Brighton.  I have just been to the wedding of Pip and Giles which was on Saturday and stayed with an old school friend last night which was just lovely.  Right now I’m sat having a wee drink and writing this blog so that I can upload it when I get a mo (and have access to the internet).  I’m going to stagger what I’ve been up to over the next few days and give you an insight into what I’ve been doing, which is basically having fun, relaxing, eating and drinking too much and getting loads of ideas for my writing and painting as well as the business.  But before I let you into that world, let me show you a few pics from the wedding…

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So, first of all this is Pip, well the back of Pip.  She looked gorgeous in her dress which was just divine.  The only issue with it I think, was that the train seemed to get in the way on the dance floor...lovely nonetheless.

I had to share this next one with you.  I was sitting directly behind 'bird lady'.  Take a good look at the picture, this was not a dare as far as I could tell, she really was wearing a bird on her head!  It was quite the talk of the wedding.  I met several people thoughout the night who asked if I had seen the 'lady with a bird on her head?'.  Well, I managed, along with the very funny guy next to me, to get a shot...in between giggles (how silly we were!).  To be fair to her she was wearing a gorgeous Ted Baker dress in the Birdcage design (yes, hence the birdie fascinator), which I've coveted for a while.  Still, a bird?

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I had to include a food snap.  This was our trio of chocolate desserts which were very nice indeed.  I'm vegetarian so the dessert is often one of the highlights of any meal as people don't seem to know what to give a veggie for dinner for some reason?  I'm thinking of posting some of recipes here if anyone is interested? Anyway, I had gnocchi for this meal which was quite nice....not as nice as the white chocolate shot seen here though, yuuuumm.

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The last photo shows what I was doing at about midnight.  Ummm, I was drinking tea.   A few of us were sat around a table while the waiters were clearing up.  This was my cue... 'Umm, I couldn't possibly trouble you for a cup of tea could I?' I said.  Well after the 5 people around the table giggled at me (including the bride), five minutes later, eveyone had ordered one!  Ha ha...I good end to a lovely day!

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See you tomorrow for more on my trip to London and Brighton.

Hugs till then,

Serena

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