June
June started with Mark joining friends up at the UK Game Expo to participate in all things boardgame.
Early in the month we also joined the gang at Birtley Woods where Hedges & Hurdles were part of the regular craft event there.
On the 12th Mum arrived for her long-postponed visit to the UK. Luckily the weather had improved.
The first major event was the wedding of Terry and Katharine at Aldbury church, with the reception at Pendley Manor. It was a joyous event.
The next excursion was to the Aldbury Morris annual weekend away, this time held in Shrewsbury. We stopped in at Ludlow on the way and met up with Jodie. It was a great weekend of baldricks, bells and beer. And on our way home we stopped at Attingham, a National Trust property.
A duo from Australia called Saije, that the girls saw busking in Brighton, were playing at the Sound Lounge in Sutton and we went along to watch them perform. Very good they were too.
Sue shares her birthday with neighbour Howard, and together we went along to the Asia Ivy in Guildford and enjoyed a fabulous meal.
For Sue’s actual birthday we took over the local Grape Variety where many friends came over to celebrate her 60th birthday.
July
One of the treats for Sue’s birthday was to go to one day of the Love Supreme Jazz Festival in Glinde, where we enjoyed music and merriment together with friends.
Mum wanted to travel north to visit family and friends and so we took her, stopping briefly in Lemington Spa on the way and the fabulous Blists Hill Victorian Town near Ironbridge. We explored Kirkham and Lytham tracing the family roots and caught up with family and friends.
The big family holiday was to Budapest with Mum, Terry & Katharine, and us. We stopped in the Astoria and spent a good few days exploring Buda and Pest in the heat of summer.
The family had a gathering at Chris & Lynnes on the weekend before mum left to return home.
A few days after mum had left, we had a gig with Deb at the Barbican to see Herbie Hancock and we watched and listened to this jazz icon play some wild music.
Sue and I rounded
of the month with a visit to the Sculpture Park where we saw some crazy things
lurking in the undergrowth.
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