Last year, my colleague and line manager from Oxford Brookes University invited me and my family to her wedding in August 2021 hoping we will be back in the UK.  We were, and were happy to attend the celebration in the garden of her newly refurbished house in Hayling Island, backing straight on to the water.  From living just up the road in Waterlooville  some years ago Steve knows that in the winter it can be grey and numbingly damp on the South Coast, but for the wedding it might as well have been the South of France.  Absolutely wonderful.

 

A relaxed occasion with Chinos the norm, pizza for lunch, swimming in their indoor swimming pool, paddling and kayaking in the sea, a wedding ceremony to follow under an azure blue sky, and an evening celebration with curry and then dancing until late was enjoyable for All.  I was surprised that even Misa danced at the disco.

 

We felt privileged to be invited and experience such an occasion, especially during Covid times where life is still challenging. 

 

Rennie