We were lucky to be invited to the wedding of my primary school friend (Keith Lambkin)’s wedding. He was marrying another friend (Aisling) whom I met in secondary school – and Keith properly met in college.
It was a really lovely wedding – and great to catch up with a few other friends (Ben, Barry) at the shindig. Keith is now the ‘Chief Scientist’ down in Valentia where he runs the MET Service’s meteorological weather observatory. Sounds really interesting – and he’s definitely loving it down there. Aisling is going to move down there now that they’re married – and hopefully she’ll be able to find interesting work. Still, it’s a beautiful part of the world.
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At Irish weddings (I wasn’t aware of this to date), there are bets taken on how long the speeches will go on for… I think it was 37 minutes all up? – I’ve put the audio to most of the best man’s speech (Ian, Keiths brother) up here (click to play). And we were put at ‘Abel Tasman’ table too – quite appropriate I thought :)
It was great to be there – I’m sure they’ll have a lovely happy life together.
The next morning (Weds) Maaike and I headed back to Dublin – via Mount Usher gardens (just a small gardens in Wicklow – but lovely in spring). Maaike is hiding in one of these pictures. Postcard to the first correct poster (not a hard one I think).
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Femke
April 20, 2010 at 3:16 am
First one I guess… :-)
You still have to update your travel schedule. Haven’t seen you at Schiphol at least…
Patrick
April 20, 2010 at 3:30 am
Yeah Yeah yeah… actually maybe we are at Schiphol.. you’re not there ;)
And where in the first pic is Maaike.. first is too general!
And it’s a little hard to update the map from here.. will have to look into that for next time!
Femke
April 20, 2010 at 5:14 am
Who says I am not there? :-)
Maaike is behind the 3rd tree on the right. I see a blond head peaking out from there.