Cute little Oliver

Jessie, my cousin in London, sent over this wonderful photo of Oliver. Isn't he adorable!! According to Jessie in her email, "Oliver has been keeping us very busy causing carnage now he is walking." A small price to pay, I say, for such a cute package!

Oliver Khiara

My cousin, Jessie sent me a picture of her lovely son, Oliver. He's adorarable. Greg and Jessie must be very proud.
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My last night in London

I spent Saturday night with Colleen and Steve and they drove me to Victoria Station at 7 am on Subday morning - can't ask for better friends than that! I also got to see Sanjay who has just arrived back from a 3 week holiday to Cape Town where he proposed to his other half. Also met up with Jessie for a drink - haven't seen her since her wedding and it was really great to catch up.

Colleen and Steve




Cousin Jessie




Sanjay



We went to see the Xmas lights in Oxford Street which were beautiful - definitely got us into the Xmas spirit.





I will miss London...

Jessie gets maried to Greg

On Saturday, we went to the wedding of Jessie (my cousin) and Greg. The cereremony was held in a church right next to Norman and Wilga's beautiful house in Leamington Spa. It was a lovely service - and the pastor was a real character. Jessie looked absolutely gorgeous in her beautiful wedding dress. She had two very young flower girls - one was cute, little Camilla, Emma's young daughter. Greg also looked very dashing in his morning dress.

Mum and daughter

Here is Wilga, Jessie's mum. She too looked lovely and very happy to see all her kids now happily hitched. William got married to Clair in September last year. The reception was held in Norman and Wilga's beautiful garden. We enjoyed some sun (the weather played ball for a change!), with champaign and appetizers.

Looking very smart

Here we are, resplendant in our wedding garb. Ally found a very shapely dress just days before the wedding and looked lovely in her hat. The English love their hats at weddings and no wedding outfit is truly complete without one.

The Young Ones

Here are Emma's little ones and some of the other cute kids at the weather. They all seemed to really enjoy themselves.

Now I ask you very confidentially, aint she...

Well, here is a full length shot of Ally so you can properly see her dress.

Dinner and speeches

A Marquee had been set up in the garden and that's where we had dinner. A delicious buffet of chicken and fish, roasted vegetables, tossed salad, new potatos and gorgeous home made mayonaise. Then strawberry icecream, lavender biscuits and fresh berries.

The speeches after dinner were excellent. Norman made everyone laugh with some great comic lines. Greg made all the girls misty with some very heart felt sentiments about Jessie. He is a lovely, genuine guy and absolutely adores Jessie - a perfect match. The two best men then told some hearty stories about Greg's formulative years. They showed us some hilarious photos - here are two of them showing the transition of Greg from little school boy to hell raising teenager.

Getting down on the dance floor

After the speeches, we got to dance. The music was great and Jessie and Greg put on a good display in their "first dance". It's wonderful to see Jessie and Greg so happy and obviosuly in love. They are off to Africa for their honeymoon - Victoria Falls, Okovango Swamps in Botswana and Islands off Mozambique.

Ally didn't dance exclusively with me all night - she was enticed away by another very cute young guy

It´s Mike! (or P Stain as coussin Jessie likes to call him!)

Michael Clarke (Colleen's flame for many years and a good friend of ours) was at the wedding and it was awesome to see him again. He's still living in London and has just started his own company (he's left his previous job where he built the site for "My Voice") - so is working very hard. He's as fun as ever and we had some good laughs. Hopefully we'll see him again when we spend the weekend in London at the end of this month.