We had an amazing Christmas at Rob and Liz's house in Martinborough. We opened our presents at home - thank you to all who sent something, the girls were thrilled - and then we headed over the hills to the farm for lunch.
We arrived to champagne from the biggest bottle I have ever seen - it took Tom and Rob to uncork it!
The entire weekend was full of amazing wines thanks to Rob's extensive collection and generosity.
Rob and Liz's neighbor, friend and managing director of Palliser Estates brought his cannon which we did indeed fire, twice!
The tables looked beautiful, there were so many of us that Liz set up a separate children's table for the 12 and under crowd.
The adults all made it into the dining room - which looked beautiful!
These photos are a bit out of order, I have so many that I got muddled up as I tried to upload them and unfortunately blogger doesn't make it easy for me to move them around. Here are some pre-lunch shots, there were so many people there that there is no way I got a shot of everyone, I'll upload a separate album somewhere else of the hundreds of photos I took, these are just a sample and completely unedited! A few of them are from Hettie's camera too - she took some great pictures!!
Liz, Kate and I in front of one of their newer artworks purchased from Hamish's gallery in Berlin.
There were some beautiful girls there - here are just a few, Izzy Howard, Maddie and Vita Morrison.
Hamish and Dugald
Rob, Roger and Ridd carving the turkey, pork and lamb.
Elliot popping his Christmas cracker and Ellie covering her ears at the kids' table.
Hettie and Ottilie at the adult table.
More amazing wine in big bottles, I believe this size is called a Jeroboam.
Kate and Rob making toasts.
After lunch lots of the children had a swim - Hettie and Ottilie went in wearing their clothes.
Meggie and Josie with Ottilie post swim.
Rob and Liz had set up tents on the lawn for the older kids - here the girls are just hanging out in front of their tent.
There were also rides in this:
Dessert - yum!
Finally, we attempted a group photo of Margaret and Hugh and their descendants. It wasn't easy!! Thankfully we had lots of photographers so hopefully someone got a good shot. You can click on the picture to see it larger.
I have SO many more photos - but blogger can only take so much with the uploading. We had an amazing time and I'll upload the pictures from the big Boxing Day cricket match soon. xx
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