A March visit to the wedding venue

Stitch and I needed to sort some wedding stuff out, namely the flowers and catering. We met Rachel from Green and Gorgeous flowers on a blustery, showery day - the sun would burst through the clouds for two minutes, only to be cast in shadow again as the rain fell and then suddenly stopped, and out she shone again, this went on all day - a perfect day for rainbows, as you will see...

Wow, Green and Gorgeous flowers is a fantastic place with 6 acres of land with all manner of flowers and veg. Everything has been rather slow this year, have you noticed?? So there wasn't much to show except for some lovely tulips and delightful poppies. Big fat semi feral cats (which were the friendliest feral pusses I've ever met, as Rachel bottle fed them when they were wee mites and knocking on death's door) came over for a stroke while the whippets jumped up and down excitedly.

© Green and Gorgeous flowers

We were shown into Rachel's little 'potting' shed for a cuppa and wedding flower discussion. As it poured down outside we ooooed and aaaaahed about Cornflowers and Peonies and ate buttery biscuits.

It was agreed that sweet peas would definitely play a major part in the jam jars on the tables as well asr anunculus and anemones, cow parsley swiped from the hedgerows, wax flowers and alchemilla mollis

At some point, we had to stop blathering on about flowers as we were due to see the caterer, and our minds turned to food as we waved good bye to Rachel, the dogs and the cats. I looked forward to our return in May, hoping that Mother Nature finally pulls her finger out and remembers it's Spring, and she should concentrate on helping these flowers grow.

















I have no visual aids for the food talk but it made my tummy rumble and my mouth water somewhat....canapes of mini roast beef and yorkshire puds (Dad's plea), devils on horseback, smoked salmon blinis - the usual delicious stuff, followed by rustic pies, one fish with a creamy rosti leek and potato topping and one lamb with a crusty pastry top..And then just to kill us off, a trio of puddings consisting of chocolate, syllabub and merengue, BUT I am not so interested in that. I'll be hankering after the Cheese cake, by that, I don't mean "cheesecake", I mean 3 big lovely rounds of British cheeses, yum.

Anyway here are some pics - the house has discarded her scaffolding at last and is looking pretty damn good. The garden is following closely behind....get the roses in the ground!

Here is the aforementioned rainbow astride the house

Some spring daffs

The lovely hound



The daft Grecia and the boy. It's hard to put your shoes on with a dog's tongue in your ear!

The amazing sky on our way to our friend's house too see my youngest Godson

Alfie!