It’s official we are now married!! August 14

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Well after 18 months of planning, stresses, tears and of course floods we finally got hitched on Saturday 21st July in Gloucester. I am now a Skillett!

We had a fantastic day with our family and friends with some going to unbelievable lengths to be there! For those who don’t remember our wedding was in the middle of the Great Floods of 2007 (well done Keiron for officially naming the event!)

Everything was perfect, people would never have known that in the day leading upto it we had no groom (stuck in traffic for 6 hours from swindon), a flooded boiler room in church, flooded church graveyard, our vintage car stranded full of mud, a standby car, guests in Evesham leisure centre, usher late (arrived at reception), a stand in usher, guests in army landrovers, no water, 20 hours in car from Newcastle, nearly no vicar (should have been on holiday) another wedding which should have been held in the neighbouring parish requesting to use our church at the same time due to flooding the list goes on……………But most importantly we had fun and enjoyed it.

Hopefully over the coming week we will upload some photos for you all to see. We have had 928 from our photographer!!!

We would like to thank everyone for their cards, gifts and for sharing our special day with us!

Rugby! February 24

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Well what a day for rugby, Italy thrashed Scotland I think the scots are still in shock. Ireland beat England – Keiron a very happy man! And then poor old Wales looks like it’s the wooden spoon again. We watched the action in O’Neils in Swindon. When we arrived you could have thought you had walked in at 10pm because the pub was packed at just 5.30pm.

Then after a few Guinesses we wandered up to watch the band at the Dolphin in Swindon. Nick, Simon and the likely lads from the Early Daze band (website) put on a great perfomance getting lots of the pub up dancing and nearly causing a riot! A very keen regular had Dillon concerned for his safety as he bounced around.

On the way home we got absolutley soaked in a downpour, that will teach us for not taking an umbrella!