A brilliant bank holiday weekend
I’ve loved this weekend. I love having monday off and working a 4 day week. Who said we had to work Monday to Friday?! We had a great time with Sam’s brother Jules and his wife Vikki and their daughter (our niece and Goddaughter) Elizabeth. We also had a Starbucks gathering for my birthday. That was fun. Lots of different people - it gave me a glimpse of our mosaic!
Walking round Sheffield with my sister-in-law and neice
On Bank holiday monday we had the rainiest picnic ever with both our families. We persevered like good British holidaymakers! It kept raining so hard. We were all pretty wet. Kind of an adventure!
My brother, mum, dad and Sam’s mum
Me - very cold and wet and inappropriately dressed but staying where the food is!
Taking refuge in the car - my brother, Sam’s mum, my sister in law and me!
The scenery was nice though (you might recognise it as Darcy’s house in Pride and Prejudice)
Hope everyone had happy May Days. Hopefully you had nicer weather than us! Roll on L.A.!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Looks like a fun outing! It was gorgeous weather here. Warm today, but I think we are due to get some rain storms later this afternoon!
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Wish I were there! I can’t believe you live near such gorgeousness…the picture of you with sister-in-law and niece, and the picture of– Chatsworth, is it?– are amazing. Nobody builds stuff like that in America! We were a hundred years too late, I think; the prettiest we have is in New England, where I was born and where I someday hope to get back to…I think the name of the region is significant, though, no?
Boston is pretty nice. There’s some good old federalist architecture there. And at Harvard, and a few other Ivy League colleges as well. Manor house-wise we haven’t got much, never having had much of a feudal system. Most of what we had was in the South and it was largely burned down during the Civil War. I believe there are a few old mansions of former robber barons in the North, but they’re few and far between.