11pm seems to be blog time!
Our last really hectic day of the season today! Wool!
Bev, Daisy, Holly and had to be up at 6.30 today to travel to Harptree Court near Wells.
The event was Jo and Xaxier's wedfest! Jo combines exuberant creativity with detailed organisation and created a wonderful mini festival for their wedding celebrations. The Brixworth was bedecked with decorated lamp shades and old photo frames, candle lanterns covered with butterflies and strings of old photos. We filled huge hampers with wonderful picnics and guests sat on picnic rugs or at trestle tables. Jo's mum made lovely gingham runners for the old trestles ( I must see if she wants to sell them!). The vintage marquee was the 'hedgerow bar' with galvanised baths full of chilled wine and cider. I wish we hadn't been working so hard, we would have had more time to admire everything! But I will try to post a few photos next time.
We are somehow going to go away on holiday tomorrow!! But before that John has to get back from Bath (he has gone to get Daisy who doesn't feel well.. Obviously something she has eaten!!?) then tomorrow there are four tents to dismantle before the hurricane winds arrive!
I hope that during our absence (at it has to be said, the trickiest time) the rest of the carpeting will be finished in the cottage, the decorating will be completed too, the kitchen will be made, the kitchen floor finished...(am I a little optimistic?)
Being unfit parents we are leaving a 21yr old, an 18 yr old and Daisy (15 or 20, depending!) and I am actually feeling very guilty about it. But it will be fun and games when we return, four days of frantic house packing and cleaning and then we move into the cottage. Which incidentally will have no cooker, one sink (the tiny corner one in the girls bathroom!) and a fridge in the shed!
But come October, well, the end of October, let's be realistic! Life just might be settling down to some sort of normality!
one small parting fact, Vintage Marquees has provided tents for 43 events this season!!!
I feel I have earned my new iPad which I am playing on now!
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