April 2015 – Jenny’s Birthday and a Visit from Martin
What a wonderful week we have just had. It started with Bethany, Callum and Elsie coming to stay at The Nook. We had a lovely time with lots of activities including a very enjoyable shopping trip to the 99p store. On Saturday Jenny and Mark came for lunch and to collect the children. Bethany enjoyed showing her mum and siblings a doll dressing programme she had found on the internet.
On Sunday, Martin flew in from Singapore and went to Jenny and Mark’s home at Caversham. Annie and Gerry went across to Caversham and the 5 adults and 3 children went out for a buffet lunch at an Indian Restaurant. We had a lovely meal I was impressed with the children who were prepared to try most of the dishes and all cleared their plates!!!
After lunch we went back to Jen and Mark’s where we celebrated Jenny’s birthday with a cake and then went to play cricket in the local park.
The next day after lunch Martin came to The Nook to stay for 4 nights. On the Tuesday (after Martin had been for a 22 mile run!) we went to Bristol to visit Jess, Jon and baby Oscar as well as popping in to see Lucy and James before heading back to Cricklade where we had a lovely pub supper.
Martin had chartered a fishing boat for 6 hours on the Solent for Wednesday but the weather forecast the night before was so bad that the boat company
decided that they were not prepared to go to sea. Instead, we went carp fishing with our friend Barry Kilgariff. Barry very kindly took Gerry to buy a rod and reel etc before fishing and lent Martin some tackle so that we could all fish.
We had a great time with all of us catching some lovely fish.
The following day, after Martin had been for a long cycle ride, we went to the National Trust property at Tyntesfield a few miles the other side of Bristol. It was a pleasant day out and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
All too soon it was Friday morning and Martin left us to go and visit Jenny before spending the night with friends and returning to Singapore on Saturday.
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It had been a lovely week all the more special because we were able to celebrate Jenny’s birthday with Martin.
