Rebecca and Ellis’s party

I have one more piece of family news from the last few months to report (having reported the other news here, here and here):

My sister Rebecca and her fiance Ellis Smith officially celebrated their engagement on 2 June with a big party held on Ellis’s farm near Port Julia. They have been engaged since September 2006.

Everyone had lots of fun. Incidentally, I could not possibly have asked for a better reaction to the gifts I bought for them, namely Tim the Enchanter’s hat and the cow catapult from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (naturally, I asked Ellis to close his eyes while I put the hat on his head, and then to go and say hello to Rebecca). The hat really suits Ellis, who has grown a jungle of facial hair. Unfortunately I didn’t get a photograph.