Sarah and Stuart's Wedding, Keswick, Cumbria - 21st September 1996

Suffolk County Council chums Stuart and Sarah get married at a castle near to Keswick in Cumbria, so Nosher and the gang head up from Ipswich in the trusty Mark 1 Astra to join in. On the way, whilst stuck in a queue of traffic on the M6 around Birmingham, Tim and Trevor even decide to have a quick race around the car. Nosher is super-skint, so whilst everyone else has rented rooms in an outbound center outside Keswick (The Briars), Nosher dosses in his car for a few nights (although manages to lig a spot on the floor for the first night). However, the most important mission when we get there is to visit an off-licence in Keswick and stock up on Foster's Extra. This then sustains us through several evenings and several breakfasts (yes, beer for breakfast). There's also a few impromptu drum workshops, walks up the nearby railway line and a hiring of bicycles to tour around the nearby hills of Cumbria. The wedding itself is pretty special, being in a castle and all. It's a mediaeval theme (mead is served at the reception). Neil, off of SCC, plays as part of a trumpet trio, and there's a ceilidh band in the evening, which Stuart even helps out with, percussion-wise. This also, as an aside, was the time when Nosher had a mobile phone (a large analogue model on the Cellnet network). These were still quite rare, and there was no phone in the building, so people actually queued up to use it to call home (even though you had to stand in the garden to get a signal).

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