Phil's 21st weekend (1)

We arrived back yesterday from a wonderful weekend back home to celebrate Philippe's 21st birthday who arrived in Sheffield a few hours after later. Nadine & Simon looked after us well with home cooking, a meal in a Turkish restaurant, and a good pub session where we were joined by four of Si's mates from the deep south.

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On Saturday Nad expertly drove us all over to Cheshire, volunteering to do the supermarket shopping whilst we started to celebrate as more and more of the family arrived. Later in the evening we processed down to a local pub for a great meal and a good catch-up with everyone.

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Knowing my family no-one will be happy with these photos, but hard luck! I'll be putting them (and others) onto Facebook before long and will make a link in a future post for you to see them all.

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Photo 1: Niece Rachael and Phil - it was great to see the cousins together!

Photo 2: My sister Ann, Your Faithful Blogger and brother-in-law Bryan.

Photo 3: Sister-in-law Silv and Nadine preparing food for the next day - the first 5 photos are all taken in her beautiful garden.

Photo 4: A young frog spent much of the afternoon enjoying our company!

Photo 5: Pete and Kate (my brother and sister) posing for the camera, with Si and Phil chatting in the background.

Photo 6: 'Château Neuf de Pete' as one of Matt's mates once named him - we're now at the pub.

Photo 7: Nadine & Si before the enormous pudding!

Photo 8: Ste and Vics - it was great to see her so happy.

Photo 9: Phil & Rach again!

Photo 10: Nephew Robert with his lovely Sarah

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I've put the photos back at the top of the post as I understand there's a problem seeing the bigger version otherwise!

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The full set of photos can be seen on http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=82282&id=766207654&l=2f21c44a9d