The first weekend of this month was the Queen's Jubilee long weekend. Since the weather was really good, we spent the first few days at home in the garden and down on the beach, with low tide being nicely timed in the middle of the day for maximum sand time.

On the Friday afternoon Teresa arrived in time for the weekend, so after welcoming her and catching up, I took Ellen down the road to the Croft Avenue Jubilee Party which was being hosted between two houses down the road. On the Saturday we spent the afternoon down on the high street for the Southwick Street Jubilee Party. While we were out and about, we had K-Dog Kevin from down the road at our place painting both Ellen and Ian's rooms to get them sorted.

On Wednesday it was Ian's birthday, so we certainly made sure to celebrate his first birthday with an appropriately chosen balloon :)

Tomorrow the plan is to spend the day around the house and maybe pop to the park before we head off to Gatwick for our evening flight over to Ireland for a week and a bit over there.