A busy weekend
Thursday was our wedding anniversary so we took the afternoon off and headed off to Chepstow to stay at a swanky hotel for a couple of days.
I had a swim/ steam room/ jacuzzi session while Chris did some serious reading/ napping.
We had a v posh meal (although I was middle-class enough to ask for flutes to drink our Prosecco out of).
Friday it rained a lot but we walked all over Chepstow castle anyway. Had lunch in a nice pub overlooking the river and then wandered round the museum before hitting the charity shops and indulging in a hot chocolate.
I then had another swim etc to work up an appetite for another lovely meal.
Saturday we drove to Baglan and experienced the wetness of Baglan Bay before Chris dropped me off at St Katherine's church for the 50th anniversary of Great-Grandad Pitman's funeral.
He now has his own wikipedia page here.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J_Pitman
There were about 20 bell-ringers there to commemorate him, six of whom rang one of his peals.
I met most of my Mum's cousins (Josie, Mike, Geoff) most of whom I hadn't seen since I was a child and had a good chat with my second cousins Russell and Anthea. There is definitely a family resemblance amongst us all - I kept looking across the hall for Mum and seeing someone with her hair or her eyes, but it was someone else.
Chris re-joined me for tea and cake in the church hall at 3 before we headed home.
I think the peal was successful - it was still going when we left.
And then we got home and had a lovely Saturday evening at home.
I had a swim/ steam room/ jacuzzi session while Chris did some serious reading/ napping.
We had a v posh meal (although I was middle-class enough to ask for flutes to drink our Prosecco out of).
Friday it rained a lot but we walked all over Chepstow castle anyway. Had lunch in a nice pub overlooking the river and then wandered round the museum before hitting the charity shops and indulging in a hot chocolate.
I then had another swim etc to work up an appetite for another lovely meal.
Saturday we drove to Baglan and experienced the wetness of Baglan Bay before Chris dropped me off at St Katherine's church for the 50th anniversary of Great-Grandad Pitman's funeral.
He now has his own wikipedia page here.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J_Pitman
There were about 20 bell-ringers there to commemorate him, six of whom rang one of his peals.
I met most of my Mum's cousins (Josie, Mike, Geoff) most of whom I hadn't seen since I was a child and had a good chat with my second cousins Russell and Anthea. There is definitely a family resemblance amongst us all - I kept looking across the hall for Mum and seeing someone with her hair or her eyes, but it was someone else.
Chris re-joined me for tea and cake in the church hall at 3 before we headed home.
I think the peal was successful - it was still going when we left.
And then we got home and had a lovely Saturday evening at home.