Hello,
So I have been awful at taking photos these past 2 weeks. I am usually good at that but have been enjoying myself too much to even think about getting my camera out!
SO... I went to oxford last week to try on my ACTUAL wedding dress, so exciting. I have set up my first fitting in October (needs to be done early so myum can do her thing!! Just means I can't loose too much weight after the fitting... what a hardship...!)
Then I went to Atherstone to see my friend Sarah after about 2 years of not seeing her. Was good to catch up and hear all her gossip!
Then Tim and I went to Belper for the day followed by driving back down to Oxford for our fridns birthday BBQ! Was great to see my guernsey friends again. Tim quite enjoyed it too as he and Jason are now planning a climbing trip to Austria in the next month! They are mad!!!
Then I got back from Oxford had a day to rest then drove down to Brighton to see my uni friend Anna! So much fun to catch up, plus she lives in a great little flat by the sea so we got to have a BBQ on the beach, heavenly! Followed by a day of shopping on Tuesday. Anna is amazing - I had budgeted £100 for shoes and £100 for a nice underwear set for my wedding and ended up finding gorgeous shoes for £22 from BHS and a lovely underwear set from debenhams for £38!! So technically I have saved £140 to spend elsewhere!!! GREAT! Thanks Anna for helping me find some amazing bargains!
So after Brighton I came back up to Leam and have spent this week meeting up with school friends, sorting MOT and car tax and starting to think about school... argh!!!! Can't believe how quickly six weeks has gone.
Well next time I blog I promise to have some photos to share, even if they are of just tim and me!
Chat soon, Gemma xx

Hello, so we are back from our hols. We had a great time but it went far too quickly. It is so not fair when you look forward to something for so long and it all just comes and goes so fast, how on earth am I going to be after my wedding! I will have planned it and got excited for almost 2 years... I think Tim and I will have to pick somewhere really great for our honeymoon to make the brilliant ness of being married last for ages!! Here is a photo of us at our wedding venue, most big wedding stuff is all sorted now just the finer details to now do, fun fun fun!!!! Tim skimming at Bordeaux...

For those of you coming to our wedding here is the front of St Pierre Park (just so on the day you know you have come to the right place!). Tim has been busy this holiday starting setting up our wedding website. It looks great, so we will let you know the web address as soon as we have finished it. The website will give you loads of info on Guernsey and how to get here and where to stay (Thanks Sam and Nick for the idea!).

Tim collecting beautiful little shells from Oyster Point for wedding stuff, won't tell you what for yet as it will be a surprise!!

Tim at L'Ancresse. We were so lucky with weather the first week but since last Sunday it has been rain rain rainy... Not fair, we still had a great week but really is such a shame. This summer weather wise has officially sucked! Let's hope next summer will be better, I missed out on swimming daily so will have to make up for it next year by having extra swims!!!

I had to add this to my blog even though we take the exact same picture every year. Even in this last week of horrible weather we were still able to enjoy this gorgeous jacuzzi with glasses of champagne (well we were on holiday!!!)

Tim and I on L'Ancresse, was a windy day so no swims that day...

This photo is for those of you who knew marmalade my cat. He died a month or so ago. The weirdest thing however has happened. One morning (I think Mum said it was a day or so after marmalade died) this tiny ginger cat turned up in our garden!! I had such a bl***y shock when he appeared one morning when we were there, had to take a double take to make sure it wasn't Marmalade... very bizarre. The funniest thing is he seems to like our house and also appeared one evening on the top of our fridge!!! We don't know how long he had been up there but seemed to like it. He wanders off at the end of us cuddling him to a house at the back of us so I guess he already has a home. It is nice to have a cat about to cuddle though...

We are calling him Charlie as he seems to respond to this. Look how much like Marmalade he looks... weird!!!

Well no more news from me, back in Leamington now. We have unpacked but seeing we got up to get the red eye at 5am we are pretty tired. Having dinner then getting an early night. We have a busy week ahead so will update you later on. Huge hugs xxxxxx

Hello, we are still having a great holiday in guernsey, the weather has been amazing! Making the most of it today as the forecast is not good for next week, oh well, I am still swimming no matter what the weather!!!
We have been very busy doing wedding stuff and have also fitted in a day trip to herm, lots of swims, lots of jacuzzis and lots of wine! We had fish and chips on the beach yesterday before meeting a whole load of my school friends for drinks in town. Was great to catch up and hear how all our lives are changing! Very exciting things happening this year for all of us!

Here is a picture taken a year exactly to the day of our wedding at our wedding venue. Can't you just imagine me in my lovely white dress????!!! Tim and I on our way to Herm to collect shells, lie on beach, swim lots and drink cider!!! Was a fun day out and scorching hot weather! Will miss the sea so much when we have to come home.

Just wanted to share the amazing ness that is Herm. This was taken at 11am looking across shell beach. All those crazy people who headed to spain for sardine packed beaches are missing out on 25 degrees sunshine on empty sandy white beaches....!!! It doesn't get better than this!

From left to right - Claire (very pregnant!!!), Pippa, Verienne, Me, Katie, Greta and Holly, in the Albion wine bar, used to be one of our favourites when we were sixth formers!!

Well would put on more photos but we are off out in a bit for dinner in town! Hope you are all having fun wherever you are. We have a big day planned tomorrow with all our family coming round for dinner YEY! and Tim wants to do some fishing!!! Chat again soon xxxx

Hello, so annie and pete's wedding was lovely. Very busy with sorting things day before and on the day but we really enjoyed ourselves, tim and annabel's mum and dad were stars and did so much before and on the day. All in all a great wedding, very romantic and dancing barn dance stylee was fun! I also got to finally meet all of tim's family - no-one left to meet now.

We are now in guernsey and loving it, only been here for a day but already feeling relaxed and chilling out with a glass of wine. Mum and I have had a swim at bordeaux, tim chickened out and pretended to do work instead (ok so actually he is working hard on his phd writing up but still... I want him to swim with me!!)

Tomorrow we are relaxing round here and at the beach then wednesday we are heading to herm! YEY! collecting shells and swimming, I am sure I can get tim in the sea at Belvoir bay! I will keep you posted.

HUgs, hope you are all enjoying the summer sunshine,
gemma x