R860

female,married,1son,retired,64yrs old,Stockport, Cheshire.

Fri. eve.decorated village community centre with bunting ready for the Parish coffee morning next day. Then went up to church for choir practice,special celebrations on Sun. morning but I doubt I'll make it as I'm organising a street party for ''the Big Lunch''.

Saturday 2nd. June, not a bad day weather-wise,took my cakes, raffle prize and tombola items early [9:15 am.] to help,set up room, learnt that my friend and myself were selling flags[already numbered] and the recorded numbers put into a draw, the winner got 20% of the takings. We decided to position ourselves by the main entrance so we could get the money of them before they went into the coffee morning[ we took over £50 !! At 12 o'clock we cleared the room and then helped to set it up ready for Sunday when the Wednesday coffee morning crowd were taking the hall over [free for the day] to screen the river pagent for those who were on their own and would like company.In the afternoon I went last minute shopping as my cousins from Australia were arriving for the street party on the Sun.
Prepared food and bunting and balloons for the next day.

Sun. well what a day terrific winds and Rain!!! in the morning I changed our bed so the visitors could have our bedroom till Weds. and packed a weekend case so we could sleep in our campervan [ my husband was not getting a new bed or rearranging our spare room just for a few days]. Lunch time when a neighbour returned from church the marquee was set-up or rather they tried to put it up [7 men],after it blew 15 ft. in the air and eventually sand bags, potting compost bags were tied to the base it was thought too cold to be out so we migrated to a good neighbours conservatory where a good time was had by all, food appeared from nowhere mountains of it ,i did hot pork barm cakes and cranberry,jacket potatoes and salads, there were over 40 of us, we had a quiz games and stories. then 7:00pm we cleared away ready for hotpot curry and chichen pie, we started to drift away about 10.
Monday,what a beautiful sunny day!!!wearing red,white and blue we took my cousins to the local Hall and gardens,where they filmed Pride and Prejudice, as she is a classics nut, had lunch there then went up to the sports ground where we were having a family funday starting at 3:00pm. slow start my husband and 1 cousin went off to look at trains and my cousin and I helped with the childrens races. A really great time.In the eve. when husband and cousin returned we had hotdogs and sat in the bar area watching the concert and at 10:00pm. our beacon was lit then a fantastic firework display,[we as a jubilee committee raised quite a good amount of money to finance the day and it was free to visitors]
home then, I felt it was a job well done by everybody.

Tues. weather was cooler but fine so we took off to Bakewell to let our visitors taste the Puddings and journey through the Derbyshire landscape, I didn't like missing the Queen going to the abbey but thought it would be shown again , we thought of Prince Philip and we wish him well,What an acheivement 60yrs. I did send a card and had a lovely acknowledgement back which was such a surprise.

Thankyou for letting me share this fantastic few days with you.