Things to Make and Do in Leeds

When we were back in Leeds recently (see post below) we stayed over with Sara's auntie Jan and uncle Richard. They have a wonderful dog called Logan and Dave in particular looks forward to seeing him whenever we're up that way!


We had a free day before the wedding so we spent the morning ski-ing at the Xscape snow dome which was great fun and had us pining for the alpine slopes again...

In the evening the four of us went out to a terrific old country pub, 'The Chequers', (this is a review from the BBC Leeds site). It doesn't seem to have changed at all in the last few hundred years, it's a real warren of nooks and crannies inside and has lots of character. They also served free non-alcoholic lager to drivers which was a nice touch.

...And the Weddings Keep on Coming

It was Jo and Garath's turn recently. Another trip up to Leeds!

Here's the happy couple:


Chris had an excuse to carry a sword in public:

A very tired-out Rhys by the end of the day!

The garden could do with a tidy...

Sorry for the light bloggage recently. 'Tales' is on its' own summer holiday at the moment ;-)

We were helping out last week with our church's social/community action project 'God Loves Peckham'. We got stuck into a neglected community centre in North Peckham, the Bradfield Club, mainly painting and general decoration. Around the back of the centre it has it's own garden but as the piccie above shows nobody has looked after it for some time! Fortunately the jungle of weeds, bushes and triffids has now been hacked away. By the way, none of this is a criticism of the Club's fabulous caretaker, Tigah, the first rastafarian caretaker we've met! He really looked after us and was so pleased to see the Club looking good again.

There's some more photos of what we and our team were doing at the Bradfield Club on our Flickr page, plus some other new pics of things we've been up to.

You can read more about what the project was doing across Peckam on our vicar's blog.