Wedding

Last weekend, Jenny and I, Ben, Claire, Thomas and Sophie attended the wedding of Sean, an old Scouting friend, and his bride Michelle. They were actually in the Empire State Building, New York, on Christmas Eve so this was a marriage blessing service conducted by our former Group Scout leader with the lessons read by me and another former leader in the Scout Group. With so many Scouts about it was appropriate to hold it at the 95 acre Phasels Wood Scout Camp in Hertfordshire. We had been warned that the track to the marquee would be muddy (it was) but the marquee itself was a splendid affair with gas heating, a silk lined ceiling, chandeliers and a dance floor with little "starlights" over it. The cake was a mountain of small individual cakes - very clever. There was a lovely meal, with a pig roast, funny speeches, lots of talking to old friends and then dancing to music provided by two live entertainers. It was all great fun. Sophie especially liked the dancing - sorry that my photo cuts Ben's head off.