Another brilliant weekend – such good fun
Woke up nice and early and got cracking with a proper fry-up for breakfast. Made loads, which turned out to be a good call because Tash had invited people round and they all tucked in too.
John & Pauline came over, then Liam and Georgia turned up with their dog Woody. Must admit, he was a bit of a nightmare and I’m slightly worried about how he’ll be on Christmas Day when they come over. I’m sure we’ll work something out — hopefully we can calm him down somehow.
It was really nice having everyone round though, and little Frankie got passed around from pillar to post. He didn’t complain at all — such a lovely little lad.
After breakfast they all headed off and we started getting sorted to go to Warwick Castle for skating. Before leaving, Jeny popped in briefly with a couple of cuddly toys for Frankie — she’s so kind and thoughtful.
Dropped Bess off at Sue’s and made our way to Warwick — nice easy drive as it’s so close. Found a decent parking spot and met Wayne & Kerry and the girls in Wetherspoons. Slowly everyone else arrived. Niamh even brought her new boyfriend, Sidney, who seems a very nice lad.
We had some food and drinks and then walked over to the ice rink, set in the castle grounds with the castle itself overlooking us — brilliant setting.
Unfortunately the rain had ruined the rink, and they hadn’t re-iced it. There was a good inch of water across the whole thing — absolutely not ideal.
Didn’t stop us though. We still got on and had fun, and as usual I was zooming around, happy as Larry… until for the first time in many, many years I lost my balance and went over! And of course it had to be on the bit completely full of water — absolutely soaked. Didn’t hurt anything except my pride.
Carried on skating anyway until our time was up. Everyone had a good laugh at my expense. We hung around outside for a while afterwards, chatting with a pint, then said our goodbyes and went our separate ways home.
Lewis, Emily, Frankie and Jack all headed back up north.
Picked Bess up from Sue’s and stayed a little while — I had a very large gin and tonic — then home, where we watched more Mr Mercedes. I had four more beers, so ended up a bit tipsy but not too bad. Bed not too late.
Such a lovely weekend — so good to have Lewis, Emily and Frankie here. I hope they enjoyed it too and that it hasn’t put them off coming again.
✅ End of Day Summary
A proper feel-good Sunday — family, friends, food, dogs, babies, skating chaos and a soaking on the ice. Lots of laughter, a big G&T, a few beers and a warm, contented finish to a brilliant weekend.
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