Raff’s World

It was a close call. Taking off from Manchester airport  for Laura’s wedding five weeks and five days after the operation and three weeks and two days after 42 big meaty staples were taken out left little time for things that might have gone wrong to be put right. Everything however was fine and so was the wedding, in fact it was great.

A very careful examintion of this photograph should show that I (second from the right) am wearing a pair of brown shoes and very comfortable they were too.

Well, as well as the wedding in Paphos we had a “do” in Burscough with everyone wearing the same outfit as they had on the wedding day.

The previous week we had been out for a meal and I was going to wear my brown shoes as they would have gone quite nicely with my carefully chosen outfit. I couldn’t wear them because I couldn’t find them……but I was told by Mrs Raff that “you should have told me you couldn’t find them, I know where they will be.”

Well for the “do” – incidentally we could have hired a golf club for £850 or Burscough’s Stanley Institute for £35….we went to Burscough! – was the following week and the hire suit was put on but where were my brown shoes? Well Mrs Raff was wrong because she couldn’t find them, they can’t have been left in the hotel room and they couldn’t have fallen out of the suitcase on route. So if you see a lost pair of brown shoes (from ASDA by the way) let me know.

Everything about the wedding and the Burscough “do” was brilliant. Stephen and Luke were great and Laura has made an excellent choice with her new husband  Neil.

You don’t think when your kids are little that they will turn out so well. Well they have. Oh and Mrs Raff didn’t scrub up too badly either!