Saturday, September 08, 2007

An elegant English wedding

The Crowan village church is very pretty. Charlotte and Wayne got married there this morning and we felt privileged to have been invited. We were deep in the Cornwall countryside to see this very lovely couple tie the knot. We were surrounded by wonderful place names like Praze-an-Beeble, Nancegollan, Reskadinnick, Carnkie and Twelveheads. It was a traditional English wedding in an ideal setting. Excellent. What made it even better was that we met up with old tennis friends who we might not otherwise have seen. Mike, a very good tennis coach and player, and Jo who will shortly move to Australia, invited us to their wedding in Sydney next month. The temptation is huge but then so is the cost and we're just not ready at the moment for a long trip down under. We felt very privileged to have been invited. Next up was Preston, another good tennis player and coach, who was also part of a tennis team that I managed in the 90's. This team won the Berkshire County Championship five years in a row which was no mean feat. We had a great team, a great team spirit and we had a lot of laughs. An excellent time.
After the church service we all decamped to Scorrier House a short distance away and partied until the early hours. Jan pointed out that it was nice to be at a wedding and not have to do anything other than enjoy yourself.

Having left mine at home, I will post some photos when I buy a new card reader shortly.

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