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Last weekend we went to Charlie and Luke’s wedding in Dartmouth and it was a lovely day. Charlie was crying even as her dad was walking her down the aisle, then she couldn’t stop giggling! The lady conducting the ceremony had to make her look out of the window for a minute and compose herself, bless her! She did really well, though, and managed to read out her vows.

Luckily the weather was glorious because we then had a boat trip around the harbour. I’m not good on boats, but the going was smooth and we didn’t go out to sea, so I was pleased we could always see the land and it was good fun!

Their dog, Daisy, was a ring bearer and she was so well behaved. She went to the party afterwards as well and was still running around saying hello to everyone until well after midnight, she must have been shattered.

Charlie was wearing these shoes, they are amazing!

Here are some of my photos.

Married five minutes and he’s already snogging another woman!

Shiny happy people.

Confetti.

On the boat (She had changed her shoes because the unicorns were too hard to walk in!

A sea themed cake.

With Daisy in the water!

Loads of fun. We were sharing an apartment with Rich and Jess, but Rich forgot to tell us that he’s a sleepwalker. At about 3:30am, he walked into our bedroom, opened the curtains to the French windows and grabbed the knob for the curtain tie backs. He tried to turn it, gave up and walked back out. It was a bit creepy but also funny. Apparently he sleepwalks all the time; once he walked in on two of his friends having sex and just stood at the end of the bed staring at them, so it could have been worse!

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We went to look at a wedding venue today. They showed us around, let us fall in love with the place and then told us that a Friday in March costs £5,000 to hire it. That information wasn’t anywhere on their website or offered to us before we arrived to look around; most other places we’ve looked at offer free venue hire so we can’t really afford to spend £5,000 just on that. It doesn’t include any food or drinks or anything else, literally just the venue hire. Waste of time and disappointing that we know what we’re missing out on. Five months engaged and still no closer to booking anywhere. I’m going to have to try and win the £10,000 jackpot on Tipping Point!

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I failed my roller derby minimum skills test again. Bloody transitions and backwards laps again. I didn’t think I had made any progress since last time, but the head of training sent me a Facebook message to say she thought I’d improved massively and I’m really close. She’s asked the team coach to give me some one-to-one time as they really want me to pass and get out there playing games; it’s nice to know I’ve got the head of training and coach behind me, they must really believe in me :o)

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For the first week in August, I’ve signed up to GISHWHES, introduced to me by Candice. Basically they give you a big list of weird and crazy tasks to complete, you and your team members complete as many as you can and the winning team gets a trip to Costa Rica. I’ve booked a few days off work and I’m going to spend it with my family, so they can help me to complete the tasks. I’m really excited to see what they’ve come up with and get started on it! There are still a few places left on the team, so if you fancy having a go, leave me your email address and I’ll send you an invite; anyone in the world can join and it’ll be loads of fun!

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Mam and Dad popped in to see us on their way back from Spain, they stayed a couple of nights and we had fun going the pub and just chilling out for a bit. Mam was keen to get back home, though, as she’s been away for a month but her dad, my Granda, has been very ill in hospital and she’s been really worried about him. I’m not entirely sure what happened but I think he fell over and couldn’t move for days. No one knew what was wrong for a while; broken back? Broken hip? Trapped nerve? He was in hospital for a few weeks getting physiotherapy but is now back at home. He still isn’t well and there’s talk of getting a bed set up for him downstairs. I know he’s well into his 80s but he seems to have become very old very quickly :o(

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Last updated July 12, 2015