A weekend Away

Its Sunday afternoon as I write this and I'm a bit bored. I got home a couple of hours ago from an unexpected weekend away. I had forgotton that an old friend of mine, Hayley, had invited me to a BBQ, or more accurately a Ska-BQ (which is basically a BBQ with the promise of Ska music being played).
I'd forgotton all about it because she sent an email about it a couple of weeks ago and I have a short attention span and promptly forgot about it. So, yesterday afternoon whilst wondering what to do it popped back into my head and plans to get there were arranged, well I skanked a lift of Emma and Mike.

Hayley lives in Wirksworth at the moment which is a small village on the edge of the Peak District and is a lovely little town. She and her fella are renting a literally tumbledown cottage which seems to have come straight out of Postman Pat and is absolutely beautiful (as is the rest of the town). Also there was a good crowd of people there, some real good friends I haven't seen for a good while, and new people who we'd never met but made good drinking companions.

picture postcard country- Wirksworth

Highlights include: funny looking dogs in a pub; a man having a very public dispute about the colour of his shop on the High Street, complete with bright yellow petition in the window; blooming gorgeous weather; Hayley's lovely spread; having a slightly drunken singalong complete with guitars; trying to play the bagpipes; Ped's toy guitar (as ever); a number of funny hats; Camping, Camping, Camping!; Kate falling over a wall while she says "I'll probably fall over this wall"; the coldest tent in the world at night; the hottest tent in the world by daylight; silky football skills; "Gateau at the Chateau" and England beating the Aussies at Cricket.
Despite the promise of Ska, we actually got 'Rave 92' and 'Rap to the Max' on the stereo but it was OK because of the irony of it all and the fact our drunken singalong was a bit louder than the stereo. Some pics were taken by members of the group sio hopefully I'll be able to get some up here at a later date.