I think this is my favourite photo from the wedding we were at last night, although I am wondering if Sam is actually picking his nose!
We had a fantastic time celebrating Dennis & Lucia’s marriage with them; the ceremony was intimate and moving, and the reception has to be the most fun wedding reception I’ve ever been to, it was great. Just a few more photos:
I was supposed to be at Lola’s birth, guess it was rather dumb to then go on holiday and only come back within a week of her due date! Looking forward to meeting her later on today 
In the meantime I thought I’d blog this as there will be no pictures from me, because my camera is stuck inside our camping trailer which we had to leave in Belgium (long story to follow for anyone who hasn’t been watching my Twitter!).
Stupidly proud of myself for having passed, and guess what, now I *still* have less classes on my licence than most of you! Anyway, phew, and thanks so much for all the good lucks and congratulations. I was praying hard and just to prove there is a God, there was hardly any traffic on the roads 
Thanks again to Andy Taylor of Taylor Made Driving (link link link!), I couldn’t have done it without him!
Saw why the test only has a 20% pass rate this morning at the test centre though. This young chap was in to be tested at the same time as me and I watched him try the reversing thing, which is pretty much the first thing you do. He reversed, turned, then pulled forwards three times, and you’re only allowed to pull forwards twice in the whole thing. So he failed instantly.
Later on it turned out that my instructor had talked to him and found that his company had put him in for the test with little or no teaching, and he’d never reversed a trailer before in his life! Couldn’t believe that a company would waste the test fee like that; perhaps there are people out there who could just pass it (we’ll see if Steve manages) but given how hard I found it, thinking I was a decent enough driver in the first place, I’d be surprised.
So obviously the low pass rate is more because people enter it before they’re ready to do it, or because they take it without really knowing what it entails (chap today clearly didn’t know he could only pull forward twice as he really didn’t need to drive forward when he did).
Anyway. Now I’m looking forward to Steve’s turn, which hasn’t been arranged yet, but it won’t be too long to wait.
Have leapt back into normal mode here (having been in zombie ‘can’t think about anything else but towing’ mode for the past few days) and done lots of catching up on housework this afternoon, there is more to be done but it will have to wait until later or tomorrow.
We’re looking forward to the party tonight!
edited to add – here are photos from the party:
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