Wedding Anniversary, June 24, 2007

Before Lunch Pimm's
The Pimm's is generously served by smiling servers, along with delicious hors d'oeuvres like roasted red pepper and aubergine on crispy little toasts, refreshing salad served on a lettuce leaf, and tiny sausage rolls. Everything is delicious. It is our first course, so everyone gets to talk to everyon else.









Gerard, Ronni, and Lily just got back from Spain last night at midnight. They are tired, but came back especially to bJue at the party.













Julie, Trevor, Alex and Jessie are here from New Zealand, staying with Rachel and Michael.

Dad and Carolyn, Munstead

Caught in the Act~


















Mark home from the bacon hunting.

Saturday afternoon

Catherine Crunching
She gets to baby sit her brothers tonight. Truuuubbbbullll.

Tea at Cappells, 2 June 2007

We zapped over to Godalming Saturday afternoon to see the Cappells before we are off to France on Wednesday, 6 June. Tasha will stay with them and look after Toby while we are gone.
I made the requisite batch of chocolate chip cookies, as well as some flapjacks which were squidgier than they should have been.

Turned out Matthew had made a batch of flapjacks himself, just that morning. He used maple syrup, mine were the traditional golden syrup, but his were squidgy, too. We decided they were both nice and tasty.

It was a sunny, warm afternoon. The swimming pool hole is looking promising, if muddy. Louis showed it to me. I asked if he was going to help maintain the pool. He looked shocked. "No!" he said. "Oh," I said, "You mean, Mom and Dad pay for it, and they maintain it, and you just swim in it?" "Of course," he said. Oh.