Happy Birthday train party

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Tags: friends, days out, train

Date: 15 May 2011 19:51:38

We had a brilliant day yesterday. We went on Nene Valley Railway for our friend Ophelia's 30th birthday party. The dress code was posh frocks and vintage hats so I made an effort and wore my Gran's hat which I love (rather morbidly it is the last hat I remember her wearing before she died as she wore it to my sister's wedding!)

It was fabulous to meet up with a bunch of random internet people from the Ship of Fools, although to be fair I have met them all quite a bit in real life, so I class them as 'proper people' these days!

It was just fun to be out and about and the people in the train were chatty and helpful and lovely and the food was pretty good too. After we had been on the train and had lunch there was a rather convenient vintage bus waiting outside the station and someone managed to persuade the druver to take us to the nearest pub, leave us there for an hour or so and then come and pick us up. A perfect finish to a perfect day!!

Here's the pics.... (the final photo is so Mum can see the hat worn to perfection!!!)

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