Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 2nd June, 2024)

Looks like you’re getting about on that bike Mick I’m just about to leave to meet Paul for a ride,Haigh Hall not progressing very fast.

A very casual affair by the look of things. When our daughter got married it was a civil ceremony, a small family affair but the registrar commented on how nice it was to see people dressed for the occasion instead of T shirts, torn jeans etc.
Each to their own I suppose. Interesting photo Mick.

I did not know they did weddings OUTSIDE of Haigh Hall was registered for INSIDE. No airs and graces for this wedding looking at the people in the photo. They were there to celebrate the union of two people and that is all that mattered not a fashion parade

Agree with you, Helen.
Dress standards at weddings and funerals have slipped significantly.
A couple of years ago my brother in law gave us a three night ticket to one of the big spa hotels in Co. Durham. A wedding took place while we were there. Men in nightclub gear with extensive tattoos, the women (large) with short dresses, the ink making their legs resemble sides of bacon.
Each to their own, I suppose, but the notion of getting up in the morning, looking into a mirror, wondering how to make myself look worse, doesn't appeal.

I remember sitting under that tree or maybe one thereabouts, revising for exams with friends. Not that much revision was done, we were too busy eyeing up the boys. Happy days. Thank you for bringing back a lovely memory Mick.

What a shame that the hall still has its "bin bag" on! It makes a lovely backdrop to wedding photos when we can see it in all its glory. Still, there are some pretty places in the grounds for photos to be taken. All the best to the happy couple.

Meet me under the tree, such a pleasant memory.

Some say the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, and the second best time is.. now!

I would have loved to have had an open air like this, a couple of my friends have gone abroad to get married on the beach, with all the guest dressed in swimwear.

A wedding may have taken place somewhere else and it’s the photographs for the album perhaps. But not in front of the Hall of course.
It could be the neighbours coming to look. They used to do that years ago when brides left the family home - neighbours crowding round t’front door! They’d be oohing and ahaaing! Oh! Dunt ‘er look luverly!

Nice one Mick, my wife says that when Micks photos are on Pads it makes her day because they seem to be alive.

Sorry Irene, What I should have done is to ask the bride and groom to come to the other side of the old oak tree so I could take the photo without the bin bag wrapped hall in the back ground.

Everybody in the picture are not wedding guests, they are some of the workers at the hall, how can anyone attend a wedding dressed like that!
Good one as usual, Mick.

Mick, there is nothing wrong with your photo and if you re-read my comment I never said there was. I just said it's a shame that the hall is covered up at the moment when it makes such a lovely background to wedding photos in its normal state. That's all I said and that's all I meant; it was not a criticism of the view. If you had asked the people to move you would have lost the spontaneity of the photo.

Nice picture Mick, the lady does have flowers and dressed in white but not sure if this is a wedding, might be an anniversary blessing but cannot see anyone officiating.
They seem to have something on a tripod. As you were close to the event you would know best.

Kerry would that include the grandmas and grandads wearing their cossies?
Just trying to imagine the guests and where the buttonholes would be on the men. At least the ‘outfits’ wouldn’t have cost an arm and a leg. ;o))

Kerry's comment reminded me.
Managing a boutoniere can be a bit tricky on the beach in your swimwear.

Meg for me and the boyfriend sitting against that tree ‘courting’ .
Do young ones still use that word today?

They have sticky on flowers these days, so you can stick them anywhere you want.
They also have sticky on remembrance day poppies as well.

If it is a wedding then each to their own style of ceremony, if that is what they both require, though maybe has Veronica says they're just there for a photoshoot.
At one time anything like it would have been called pouse, and up the road in Aberdeen Little Scotland it would have been called bouwfin.

I haven’t heard the word pousie for years Cyril. That does take me back…but never heard the other one.

Sorry to interrupt Mick. Just heard the devastating news regarding Rob Burrow. I’m devastated.
We are so fortunate in many ways.

Me neither, Cyril....I haven't heard "pouse" or "pousey" in years!

Rest in peace Rob Burrow.

Irene & Veronica, boufin is a Scottish word meaning the same as pouse, I was looking up pouse to be sure of the spelling and there are loads of different ways of spelling the word, the Scottish word boufin also came up and I too hadn't heard it before, I found it apt with the area called Little Scotland close being by.
I just put the saying on with folks saying it years ago, I've nothing against the couple and do wish them all the best, no matter what they were doing.
It is sad news Colin, he was a fighter to the end, may he rest in peace.

So very sad for that young man and his family and friends. He was inspirational to the end. Rest in Peace Rob. xxx

Yes rest in peace Rob.