On March 31, my cousin Garth married his girlfriend Johanna in Belfast. Steve kindly sacrificed his invite to look after the kids for the weekend and I headed over. They chose a good weekend for it as the weather was lovely. 
I managed to get a walk in down Stricklands Glen to the shore - a walk I love to do every time I visit. The day after the wedding Jane and I got to walk along the shore from Crawfordsburn Country Park back to Bangor, it was beautiful. In the photo you can just see Great Grandma Ruth's hospital (Crawfordsburn Hospital) that has now been converted into apartments.
The wedding was at the Belfast City Hall, rather a spectacular setting especially since it has recently been done up. I have never been inside so it was great to get a peek! 
The wedding ceremony was short and sweet and was followed by a walk through the city to the Crown Bar, a National Trust property (one of the best of their properties I think!!;)). 
After a short stop there we crossed the road to the Europa hotel where the reception was being held. The views from the penthouse ballroom of Belfast were fantastic, it was rather difficult to pull away from the window to eat as I could easily have stood looking for hours. As yet I do not have any photos of me but I'm sure one will pop up at some point; I'll add it when it does.
It was a lovely day and a lovely wedding; congratulations Mr & Mrs G. McGuigan!
The rest of the photos are from the end of March and beginning of the Easter holidays. The veg patch is rather overgrown and needs rather a lot of attention.
This is the first crop of purple sprouting broccoli, unfortunately pigeons have since eaten the rest so I'll be pulling it up soon. The only other things we have in are onions, garlic and potatoes. I don't think I'll do as much this year as last - think I'll stick to the things we eat a lot of. It seems cabbage is not one of those things and 22 cabbages all ready to consume at the same time shows my lack of thought and planning last year!
We also have a new batch of piglets. The old ones are proving to be very tasty and good value. The breed this year are slightly different, I believe they are Gloucester Old Spot crossed with Berkshire.
The last couple of pictures are from the Easter bonnet parade at playgroup (Toby is second from back) and the other is at our new village play area - I'm sure there'll be plenty more showing that in future posts as we seem to spend the majority of our spare time there at the moment.
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