"The" wedding

The gathering

The bride arrives

 The new Mr & Mrs Stone

 Only a few posed photos by request of the couple

 The reception, starting with the speeches

The wonderful food

 Beginning to relax...?

The cutting of the cake

The evening session

 (Rachel) No I am not going to do the first dance, I'm not..., I'm not...

Home from NZ from Easter until "the" Wedding

Mum & Dad, both children, a fiancé and a Nana shared Easter Sunday lunch.

Gotcha (pied)

This woodpecker has been busy for a week collecting peanuts from one of my feeders and 'drilling' them into this fence post. We've seen him twice a day but getting a picture has been problematic - it seemed that s/he flew off at the slightest movement from behind the window.

Robin Stag Do

The six of us gathered in Capel Curig to climb Snowdon

This was the arrival evening view of the mountain

The actual climb day was at least 'fine', if not sunny

The climb was strenuous in places and the stops were quite frequent

But we got to the top (along with several hundred others) and the view was - nil.

Some cheats arrived by train.

Still we were all very happy to stand on the summit

Having climbed over 700m of the total height

Perversely the next day the visibility was perfect

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