Party Time! Yet again!

 Sue, Libby, Jenny, John, ??? Paul, Peter W, Morag, Peter L.
Peter S, Jeanette and Trish.  (Gosh three Peters!)

 Pennie, Sue, Libby, Trish and Paul.

 Morag, Peter S, John, ???

 Jeanette, Libby, David, Sue, Paul and Trish.

 Peter L, Peter S, Jeanette, John and ???  The Party is really hotting up  :-)

 Trish, Peter W and Morag, Peters latest Girlfriend... yes Peter did have lots and lots of different girlfriends, we liked them all but they didn't last long.

 Morag, Pennie, Peter L, Peter S and John.

 David and Pennie with Sue.
 

 5 Hall Dene Close. Merrow and below the bus I took to work.

... On Saturday 19th of July we held, yet another, Party at our flat! Were we hip and groovy or what!

 ... See that's what it says in this Album...

The man in the beard is Steve Carthew, he gatecrashed David's Farewell Party at Newport Beach way back in 1967, he was a very charismatic fellow and we stayed in touch for a while but not long after this party we lost touch. Click Here to find out why!  In February 2009 I saw a story about him on Compass... and it explained a lot.

Peter Waugh and myself... don't know what is going on here!  Very funny :-)

And David below... I think that was Peter's current girlfriend he's dancing with, was it Pat?

Oh Peter!  Such a groovy dancer.

I must have said something funny... ooops  David smoking again!

I was surprised to find that we'd been to two plays and held one party in only three days, but we were young and in a hurry, when I told our 4 grown up children, Tomos said... 'So that's where we got it from!'  I love the thought that we passed on our fun to our children.

John's Pool Party - 5.7.1969 - Horsham, Surrey.

 Very classy Invitation so we were expecting big things... and there was even a Pool mentioned on the phone.

 'How can we lose when we are so sincere?'  How indeed  :-)
From left:- Peter and Sue Swiss, Mo and John, Tina and Clive, then Pennie and David on the right.
I don't know how David's clothes could be classed Beach! he's wearing moleskins and a 't'shirt with braces... well John's home was very far away from any Beach so maybe he thought John was joking???

I wonder what that sign says?

Looks like John ran out of glasses! and this was the only way I could get a drink  LOL

 Dancing the night away....  and below John is dancing beside the promised POOL!! 

Note:-
David and I went back to live in England for another two years in 1977 to 1979 and John invited us to his home for Dinner one night, with these same friends.  Tina who was sitting beside me, was getting curiouser and curiouser about our situation, she was one of those English people who need to know which class you belong to, she needed to place us but she couldn't work us out, why would we come back to England with three children and tour around for a couple of years.   I was getting fed up with all her questions but was answering away till she said... in a querulous tone, 'What does David ACTUALLY Dooo?'  To which I replied, and I'm very proud of this...  'Oh he's an heir to an Australian Fortune!'
Liar, Liar but... my pants didn't catch on fire!!   David then embarrassed me by mistaking the butter for cheese and cutting himself a huge slap and putting it on a cracker... LOL!

St John's Church Fete - June 1969 - Merrow

 St John's Church with the Horse and Groom pub across the road... very handy :-) and today below, nothing changed once again, except the cars and trees of course.

 The St John's Minister opens the Fete.

 Looks as though we bought up big on books - a bearded gentleman conducting the school band while the children on the right dance.

 Then dance the Maypole... I remember how much we enjoyed this outing, it was so English and a perfect experience of living in a small town.  Sort of like something out of 'Vicar of Dibley' maybe.

England - Party time - 29.3.1969

This Party was a Farewell Party for Clive (with camera), Clive was immigrating to Perth, the one in Australia!  to marry Barb.  Barb was one of the seven people at our wedding, she came to the wedding because she was staying at the Waugh's and David had got to know her.    Not long after the wedding, Barb went back home to Australia but while she was in the UK she and Clive fell in love and the rest is history, they are still in Perth and I am going to ring them today, just to say Hi!

Also in the photo above is my friend Smurray* who is sitting with me at the back, our mothers went to school together so we have known each other all our lives, this is the only photo I have of Sue in England and even though I've threatened her and bullied her she can't find any photos she might have had of us... she says they are on slides somewhere and doesn't know where.  What a shame this one will have to do.
*Smurray was and still is David's nickname for Sue, mine was Proddy... cute aren't we  :-)

 Pennie dancing with Clive, Peter Waugh in the background... do you admire the way the gentlemen are dressed?  Even though it was the rockin' sixties this is the way we dressed :-)  I love it!

 Clive shooting away again... Hey!  I wonder if he still has those photos??  Aaaahhhh... I will have to ring won't I.  Behind Clive is Terry, his cousin and to the right is Peter L. another cousin... check out Peter's sideburns! 

Terry and Pennie and ??  I have no idea who all the other people at this party are.

I took these two photos from Google Maps.  This is where we found our flat, in Merrow.  We occupied the top floor of the house below and had two rooms, a bedroom and a living cum kitchen room and a bathroom. It was very comfortable, very handy to the bus to Guildford and where I worked at Marks and Spencer and we hardly ever saw the landlady... except on Saturday when she came upstairs for a bath!  Yes you read right... she only had one bath a week yet she was spotlessly clean in every way so I guess the hand basin in her downstairs loo did her the rest of the week, heavens knows what she thought of us bathing daily.  We  can't remember our landlady's name now but she was youngish, divorced with no children and the only other thing I can remember is that someone stole her underwear off the clothes line!  

We had a lot of parties here but she never complained so we must have been well behaved :-)