Rhiannon turns 16!

 Our girl is 16 years old! She has been working really hard these past few months in preparation for the "mock exams" at her school, which have been all of this week and will continue through next week as well. On top of that, she is working at the pub tonight rather than doing anything fun with her friends. At least Sophie could come over today after school and hang out a little bit before Rhi goes to work.

She seems in good spirits about it all, though. And I know she would prefer working to the alternative activity for tonight, which is the annual Chelwood Gate Tree Lighting event. This has always been my favorite event of the year, but with all the stuff going on right now and the fact that it hasn't been well publicized or organized, I'm really not that keen this year. 

[Post-script]

Rhodri and I lead some door-to-door caroling along the main road through the village, which was actually hilarious and cringey. There were only 6 of us to start, with my swimming pal Emma making an appearance that totally made my evening! She is such good value to have along to things - she has a great energy and is always up for stuff! Then about 4 houses into our caroling tour, Leigh and Stuart caught up with us. 

Here is the scene at one of the houses we sang at. They hadn't opened the door yet, but they did eventually! We didn't have as great of a success at other houses - one guy switched the light off and pretended he wasn't there! Another guy totally ignored us although we could see him in the kitchen!

Anyway, we had a heck of a laugh about it afterwards when we went to the pub to visit Rhiannon after giving up on the caroling adventure.