Sunday 31 May 2003

Very Warm (for England)

A leisurely breakfast was followed by unpacking – the only casualty being Tom’s trainer which got covered with escaped Italian honey. We dressed in clean, left-over holiday clothes and looked at the wedding and honeymoon photo’s on the telly. After lunch and a phone call to catch up with the Ashes, we went around to Gramdma's for a cup of tea and to deliver some souvenirs. Grandma took one look at me and said, “ah, yes,”then looked at Tom and said “yes. I don’t need to ask if you had a good time – I can see you did;” which we thought was really sweet. We had tea and biscuits then took Grandma round to Jon and Viv’s to see their lupins. We put up some of the photo’s on their telly. Viv said ours was the best wedding she’d been to. Jon said nothing but probably felt Viv did enough enthusing for both of them.

Feeling warm and cuddly all over, we came home to a dinner of lemon chicken, rice and grated carrot salad. Tom spoke to his mum while I cleared up after dinner. Mary was impressed by his ability to point in Italian and by his knowledge of Italian words such as biscotti, chocolati and gelataria. She sounds as if she has shown wedding photographs to just about everyone who will let her. Next Tom phoned his Dad to let him know we were home safe. Andy seemed a little dazed from having just returned from touring Wales. Jamie seemed pleased to hear from Tom. He had really enjoyed the wedding day and asked all about the honeymoon. Jamie said he liked the wedding day because he had fun and also enjoyed watching the pair of us look at one another and state publicly that we were sure about what we were doing and both meant it.