It's been six months since my last post and we have been keeping ourselves busy. Summer is now in full swing and we have been having some glorious hot summer days to enjoy. England got through to the second round of Euro 2004 last night with a win over Croatia and the St George's cross flags are flying from cars and houses everywhere.
A quick run down of the past six month. Early February I went up to Scotland for the weekend to see Lesley and Katie and had a great weekend. We've had newly arriving, arriving back or holidaying friends and family to stay in the form of Grant and Sherilyn, Carlene, Lesley, Rob and Justine, Flob, Toby and Mum. Mid Feb, we went to the Brit Awards which was a great night as usual. The highlights were probably The Darkness and Duran Duran although it was all fantastic. We've had lots of catching up with friends, a reunion of about 15 Waimeans who are all in London, a glorious Easter weekend in Guernsey, the Classical Brits, Andy's birthday, a Britney Spears concert for me and we visited Rachel and Paul in Berkhamstead. We've been to Dawn and Tim's wedding in Bristol for which we stayed in the lovely Avon Gorge Hotel and took in trips to Weston-Super-Mare and Bath. We had a day out to the rugby 7's at Twickenham with lots of friends where we saw England win the day but NZ win the tournament. We've met up with John, Doreen, Dave and Bev for lunch and a trip to the Tower of London and I spent last weekend in Hollingbourne, Kent with Jules, Ruth and Laura on a very enjoyable girls weekend. We had a day trip to Leeds Castle, made good use of the hotels pool, spa and steam room and even better use of the local pub and hotel bar.
In upcoming events, I've got two girls nights this week, Andy is going to a seeing off the Olympians dinner and we leave for a week in Icmeler, Turkey on Friday morning. Hoorah!
Bec