Weekend japes

A top weekend which began with our family movie night on Friday. We watched Forrest Gump on a video nabbed from the donations bag for the school Summer Fete. A late night and lots of tears for all. The next day was the fete itself and Rob and I were in charge of the coconut shy stall. We spent an hour in almost continuous hysterics, erecting our gazebo. We were apparently one if the fortunates as ours had flaps.  Within 30 minutes of assembly and erection, howling winds galloped across the open playing fields and toyed with our tent until it broke and collapsed. Cue more laughter. 

 We had such a laugh trying to help people knock heavy coconuts from stands with balls not disimilar in size and weight of ping pong balls. The girls had a blast running about with thier mates, spending money and getting sunburnt. We got home late afternoon, in time for me to prepare dinner for our special guests for the night, Martin and Drew, all the way from Sydney.  It was such a tonic to see them both, looking so well and we had a gorgeous evening together laughing, catching up and going over stories old and new.

 On Sunday morning, at 7.30am, with Rob and Scarlett still pushing out the Zs, Flo and I took the boys on a whistlestop tour of Hastings, stopping on the beach for this photo by the fishing boats.

 It was very hard to say goodbye to them a few hours later as they headed back to London for the next stage of their trip, a holiday in Croatia. It was lovely then to get a phone call from Adrian and Laline, inviting us to join them for a distracting walk along the cliffs at Fairlight, in beautiful sunshine and lots of wind. In the afternoon Scarlett and I drove to Maidstone to visit my Dad, who has been in hospital for 10 days. He was thrilled to see us, and us him, and we are hoping his drs will come to a conclusion about his treatment and cure soon.