Celebration

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Dylan and James

Celebrating a golden wedding, Lin (my sister) and Dave’s, with their sons Richard, James and Tom plus grandson Dylan supplying the music.

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Dylan and Tom (not the complete drum kit: in addition to the bongos he had a tambourine which he played with his right foot).

I already knew that my sister during her time at Cambridge had had two close encounters with Prince Charles, himself a student at there at the time: one when she nearly ran in to him on her bike and another when she was next in the queue to him in the bread shop and she bought the muffin that had been next to the one that His Royal Highness bought.

Prince Charles
Lin takes Prince Charles home one weekend to meet our mum and Burke the black cat. This looks like a fake to me, but then surely my mum wouldn’t normally dress like that to take in the washing?

But according to a Golden Wedding ballad performed by the boys there was more to it than that. In their version it’s Charles that runs into Lin to get her attention and Dave – a student in Liverpool – has to leap on his scooter and drive to Cambridge for a dramatic face-off with the Prince on the college croquet lawn.

wedding cartoon

My brother Bill and I were the grooms at the wedding. Family friend Muriel was convinced that I’d get my hair cut.

Manx sheep

More celebrations: happy birthday to Zoe on the Isle of Man.

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Town pigeon taking great care to select the perfect twig at Pinderfields this morning.

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