Let them eat cake

Tanya and Uncle M decorating the marquee this morning.

I managed to get to mum and dads a whole 5 minutes before the road closed, went in, didn't unpack the car, got into my Dads recently vacated bed space next to my mum and slept for 2 hours! We spent the morning decorating and filling the cakes and sorting out the marquee. Mum was v stressed (understatement). The cakes looked amazing though. All the beautiful vintage china was unpacked and made ready.

I nipped home to change and gather the troops, we had Olivia with us too and then went back to the party. It was a great success, everyone milling around chatting and eating homemade cake, I dashed around pouring endless cups of tea to follow the champagne. The surprise hit on the cake table were the last minute ginger flapjacks I'd made. India and Heidi ate a lot of cake, strawberries and samosas.

Aunty Pamela did masses of washing up and I dried up and put away, Heidi came to find me and inform me that her and India 'both feel sick and have tummies' (ache). I had no sympathy! We finally got home late and India went to bed, half and hour later she was really sick. I think she may have reached her capacity for cake today!