Henry and Petra Black's wedding celebration

General 

Elliott was really good today. Early on at the party there was some trouble with two small children from a nearby Travellers encampment coming over to "play" with the children at the party (which turned out to be these two small children attacking the group of party children) but Elliott took all this in his stride. The staff at the golf club had obviously had previous problems with this encampment and the security at the golf course acted swiftly and the police were called to warn the encampment. We all chose not to press officialy charges so the police just had a friendly word. Fortunately after this there were no further problems.

Activities

After picking Elliott up we went home and packed some clothes and then left for Henry and Petra Black's wedding celebration at Maylands Golf Course near Brentwood in Essex. When we got close to arriving (after some bad traffic on the M25) we had bacon rolls for lunch.

After lunch we checked in to Mary Green Manor hotel where we were staying overnight and then got a taxi to the golf course. When we got there we were pleased to see as well as Henry, Petra and Tommy the Hydes, Wilcox and Chris Baker were also there. It didn't take long for Elliott to run off playing with Tommy, Reuben Hyde and Freya and Cicily Wilcox and he spent most of the celebration with them either outside playing football or chasing around or inside making friendship bracelets, telling stories and generally having a lot of fun. There was an unfrotunate incident early on with the two small children from a nearby Travellers encampment but none of the children let this stop them having a good time. While we were there he also saw some deer on the golf course which he and Reuben were really interested in and they got us all over to have a look at what was going on. At around 6pm we had a barbeque tea and Elliott had a hamburger, pitta bread and some baked potato. After tea there were speeches which he listened to (they were quite short and Lucas Dawson appeared on video as it turned out the Dawsons were in Greece) and after the speeches there was a disco which he and the other children sporadically joined in with but also looked suitably embarrassed at their parent's antics. We left quite late and he and the other children were definitely beginning to flag so when we got back to the hotel (which was a 10 minutes taxi ride) he fell asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow.