June 5

My colleague Luisa with her new toy!

June 4

Last night of our honeymoon... time to return to the real world soon...

June 3

View from our hotelroom on honeymoon in Kalithea, Greece: this was the pool where we spent most of our time - being lazy and soaking up the sunshine!

June 2

Guess what I saw on the way home - from the aeroplane yesterday?? Yes, the Alps!! How cool was that??!!

June 1 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Our first dance: a waltz to "Annie's song" by John Denver

May 31 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Weddingcake - made by auntie Peg: chocolate cake, fruit cake and victoria sponge cake.. yummy!!

May 30 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Bridal party in the park

May 29 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Surrounded by some of the people we love.

May 28 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Assigning our lives to each other

May 27 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Marriage!

May 26 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Elko walks me up the stairs outside the town hall in Wallingford

May 25 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

A moment of laughter with Karen and Elko, before leaving the house in the 1952 Bentley

May 24 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

The groom and his best man: his son Matthew

May 23 - our wedding day

May 22

My brother's kiddies hanging out with my lad, looking for bats to fly across the garden.

May 21

Beautiful day, and lovely landscape!

May 20

May 19

My knitting friends, who surprised me with some lovely cards (special thanks for the ones from Lara & Sophia) and our first wedding gift! Completely surprised me, so thank you very much!! :)

May 18

Elko was kind enough to let me have a preview of what he will look like on Saturday... :)

Seems like my little boy has turned into a young man!

May 17

This was the day for the rugby trials for the Berkshire Youth Rugby squad - for the U16s team for the year 2009/2010.

This is the first year they are allowed to lift a player in the line-outs....

May 16

I have finally semi-organised my sewing room, and used it this weekend to sew some table runners for the wedding! Consider me very spoiled to have a room like this; I'm very happy !!

May 15

It was the Awards Presentation night for the rugby club.. and Elko was named "Player's Player of the year" by his team members!!

May 14

A dull and rainy day .

May 13

10 days to go....

May 12

Domestic scene...

May 11

Another close-up of one of the flowers in the garden. There are many plants, and of most of them we have no idea what they are or what they will look like; so we are having lots of surprises!

May 10

Infectious fun and laughter!

May 9

Feeling a little conspicuous when out in town on my hen night!

May 8

A hidden treasure in our garden:

May 7

May 6

Het is een hele grote struik bij de voordeur:



Hier een close-up van een van de blommekes:

May 5

The first pieces of furniture we bought together... this is the trouble when you go to Ikea!
Our new chests of drawers for in our bedroom... tada!!

May 2 + 3 + 4 = Cheating

These are all taken in Oxford, where I went shopping to try and find shoes to wear under my wedding dress!! Failed... :( Oh well.. I've got 3 weeks to sort it out... plenty of time! :)

May 1

April 30

Bye bye old house.... you were my home for 5 years.... and it was good, living here.