Tuesday…. Wedding Eve

We wasn’t needed for any wedding tasks today so I took mum and dad to Winkworth Arboretum.  We had a long walk down into the valley and a bit of a struggle on our return walk up some steep steps/slopes but we made it.

Mr C joined us at the cottage during the afternoon.  Before going to the pub for dinner we stopped off at the barn, the wedding reception venue, to familiarise ourselves with where it was.  Josh , Natalie and her parents were there as were the caterers and the Nat turned up with the wedding cake. We said our goodbyes and headed off.

Just up the lane we came across this peacock in the middle of the road displaying his fine feathers.  We soon realised why when two peahens came wandering down and there he was doing his mating dance , giving his bottom feathers a good old shimmy.  Fascinating to watch.  After 10 minutes or so we had to interrupt his little dance so we could get on our way.

At the pub we met up with Mr Cs uncle, aunt, brother and sil.  A nice couple of hours sitting, eating and chatting.