Where have all the blogs gone?

Back again - but you should have been able to read an interim message but I regret my last posting appears to have disappeared into the blogosphere without a trace. I am sure it was most interesting but I am not going through it all again so you will just have to imagine it.
Really we should have taken a leaf from Bilbo Baggins' book and put a notice on the door "no admittance except on party business"
Yesterday was the big day - well technically Tuesday is the big day - our anniversary party. 30 years married and if I had a bottle of champagne for everyone who said "you get less for murder" I could open my own off licence. The week leading up to the day was beautiful and sunny, although getting colder and today has been sunny and quite warm, but yesterday it chucked it d0wn all day! 60 odd (and not so odd) friends all being friendly in a three bedroom semi was very cosy. Add that to a caterer lady who seemed to think that feeding the 5,000 was an afternoon job. The food was wonderful and very plentiful and everyone had plenty to drink as well. ~So if you came, thank you for making it such a wonderful day. If you didn't come you will never know what you missed and if you were invited and didn't come and even worse didn't bother to tell us you weren't coming shame on you and what a party you missed. Thank you to everyone who attempted the quiz. For anyone interested the correct answers are below.

30th Anniversary Holiday Quiz

Year
Holiday Clues
Answers

1978
A Bonny Honeymoon
Ø Scotland
1979
Up a Snowy Mountain and Down to See the Queen
Ø Scotland
1980
To see a Dipper and a Mole
Ø UK Derbyshire Dales
1981
Missionaries in the White Highlands
Ø Kenya
1982
Sparkling Dales to “Ecky Thump”
Ø Derbyshire Dales
Ø Yorkshire Dales
1983
Spice and Temples and a Little Bother Over Currency
Ø Sri Lanka
1984
The White Peak
Ø Derbyshire Dales
1985
“Top of the Morning to You”
Ø Ireland
1986
A Land of Pilgrimage
Ø Israel
1987
Clotted Cream and Red Sandstone Cliffs
Ø Devon
1988
Missionaries with a Yellow Bird
And to Drive a Lada
Ø Tenerife
Ø Bulgaria
1989
Freebie to Oura
With a Friend to see Mickey
Ø Portugal
Ø USA Florida
1990
To a Lake then
North to Shields
Find A&E on a cliff top
Ø UK Lake District
Ø UK Northumberland
Ø Portugal
1991
Boats with an Eye on the Prow and Lots of Sardines
Ø Portugal
1992
Round the World in 49 days
To see Godparents and a Golden Bridge
Fire Walking Round my Car
Bonza Trip
The Vicar Would be at Home
Not Quite China but they Speak Portuguese

Ø USA California
Ø Fiji
Ø Australia
Ø Hong Kong
Ø Macao
1993
Could Get Pottery Here
Ø UK Staffordshire
1994
Silves is best
Ø Portugal
1995
‘Allo Allo’ on a Golf Course with Mickey too
Ø France
1996
Uncle Sam without Mickey
Up Monchique
Ø USA New York and Boston
Ø Portugal
1997
Ole
Ø Spain
1998
Foia but not Gras
Best of Pyramid Selling
Ø Portugal
Ø Egypt
1999
NOWHERE
Boo Hoo!
2000
Not Too Faro Now
Land of the Rainy Leek
Ø Portugal
Ø Wales
2001
To the Cross of St John
Ø Malta
2002
Mickey Again with Oranges
Caravan on a Cliff
Ø USA Florida
Ø UK Dorset
2003
Another Caravan on a Cliff
Who’s that Geezer
Ø UK Dorset
Ø Iceland
2004
Alvor with Another Hospital
Ø Portugal
2005
St Paul Woz Ere
Ø Cyprus
2006
Give you a clue to start
Ø Lanzarotte
2007
What is a Paragem?
Ø Portugal

Sorry about the formatting but that seems to be the way it has copied across. Well done Addel and the team for getting 26 right even though you don't know us very well. Amazing what a little help and inspired guesswork can achieve.
Very little news otherwise, most of our efforts having been tied up with the party. Back to reality now, although as Marvin says "I think you will find it is reality that's on the blink"

Swallows have a home

Regular readers will be pleased to know that the swallows are happily building their mud nests under the eaves of the new properties. Whether they will be well received by the new owners remains to be seen but my argument is that the swallows were there first. They should be thankful that mud is in such plentiful supply at the moment! If they are clever they may even be able to mix it with a little cement dust and have a permanent des. res. for next year. Bank holiday weekend and I am joining the rest of the British populous in giving the garden a bit of TLC. Amazing what a difference cutting the grass and trimming the edges makes. There are still several clumps of long grass, not kept out of any loyalty to our invertebrate neighbours but simply to preserve the violets until they have finished flowering. The flowering cherry is past its best, not helped by the tremendous rain of the last few days. The tree peony is doing very well though and is full of bright yellow flowers. Last weekend's mistake was to invest in a lot of bedding plants that I knew I didn't have time to plant out so each evening their pots have needed emptying if the poor things are not to drown. Hope to have the rested planted out by Monday, but Monday being a bank holiday we shall be entertaining perpetual student as has become our custom since before the boys were born.
It seems the weeks are full of endless paperwork and time taken visiting body builder a couple of evenings each week so there is really very little earth shattering news.
Barmy Boris of course won which brings a little jollity to the future of London politics. As I may have mentioned he launched his mayoral campaign from the community hall beneath my office, Edmonton having surpassed Brixton as the knife crime centre of the capital. Not phased by a "vote Ken" poster put up by the landlord he must be made of stern stuff.
Will post again when there is news, time or even both and if little mouse is out there reading please get in touch I miss you !!