Ha ha we went to Willey.
It was the wedding of the year, well the only wedding of year up near Rugby in a tiny hamlet called Willey. It was the wedding of our nephew James on Sian’s side of the family, and they had planned to have it “outside”..
So they picked the right day for it, this weekend has been the hottest of the year so far, and may well be the best of the year in total. We arrived at around 14:00, to meet up in the local pub, it was pretty warm, but before I had taking a decent slug of my ice cold Stella I was on parking duties and had to park up our two cars, in someones big long drive. Should be easy, it wasn’t, I was parking in the wrong place, and had two of the householders coming to tell me off – our car was no problem, no one noticed me, by the time I brought Becs car over the parking attendants were out in force, and with no air con I was sweating cobs.
Got back to my pint and it was now steaming over, but it was still colder than me. The sweat was staining, I couldn’t hear due to water build up, and I realised I should have worn a vest. Managed to get in the shade and started to cool down a little, when we were called to the ceremony – in a field, at 15:00, in the sun. Even the cows went to seek some shade.
The ceremony was a “Humanitarianism” one. Don’t know what it means, but no imaginary people were mentioned and it was quite good. As soon as possible we heading to the massive marque for tea and scones. And discovered the FREE bar, yep free – ace.
Tea and scones and San Miguel then a couple of speeches the best “man” (who dramatically was a woman) was pretty good, and the groom was especially tearful.
The rest of the day involved sitting in the shade, taking trips to the portaloo, which was an especially fine example – although it was like a sauna inside (I don’t mean it was full of half clothed people, sweating over themselves – just hot). Picking up free beer and water and coke and stuff, and then eating a pretty good BBQ later on – great sausage, chicken and lamb burgers.
They had a great band on, playing swingy jazz, but we left earlyish to let the youngsters enjoy the beerred up rest of the evening – so we were back in the hotel by 11:00.
Good day, fantastic weather, top food and a free bar – how could it be better!!!..