What A Week!
Thank you all for your lovely comments and good wishes. What a week we had!
Sixteen members of the family were able to join us and we had a ball! The holiday site has facilities for swimming, table tennis, snooker, pool, gym, as well as rescue horses (three-year-old Leilah loved them), a bar (naturally) and a restaurant. And as it’s on the North Cornwall coast, we had wonderful walks and scenery. Each branch of the family had a house to itself and we met up for fun and food. The weather was great – blue skies and sunshine most of the day – and the Spring flowers are already out down in Cornwall, so there are daffodils and blossom all around. Magic! And balm to the soul.
On Ed’s birthday we had a special meal in the restaurant and one of the hosts dressed up in the most bizarre bikini imaginable to present Ed with a birthday cake complete with candles (no, not seventy-five of them but quite a few nonetheless), while the other host filled our glasses with champagne and we all sang a raucous chorus or teo of ‘Happy Birthday’.
We all had a week to remember and as Ed said, much better to meet up as a family while he and I are still the right side of the grass. Mostly we only get to meet up at funerals.
The birthday meal
Ed and me at Ed's 75th