Page 86 - IT'S A RUM LIFE BOOK FOUR Volume 1 "Northcote 1984 to 1998"

I forget where the happy couple were going for the reception, perhaps to the family home.
The main part of this adventure happened actually at the Church.

Picture of good neighbour Robert taken while filming “Waterland” with Jeremy Irons in
Norfolk, some time later.

We collected the bride without any problems and had Dinan the carriage dog in
attendance. Being a very, very busy road and the wedding taking place on a Bank Holiday
Saturday, we had to find a suitable place for the dog to wait until required after the
wedding. We pulled into the entrance for the Church Hall which kept the horse and
carriage out of harms way.

We also found a water tap on the end of a pipe coming out of the ground among the
gravestones surrounding the Church. We looped Dinan's lead around the pipe and thought
that very suitable.
“You know what thought did”.......... not long before the bride and groom were ready to
depart, the dog appeared at our side, complete with his lead. A steady jet of water could be
seen in the near distance where the tap and its pipe had been previously standing alert!

As we were assisting the bride and her new husband into the carriage, father, Sidney
decided to take charge and promptly stood in the middle of the A16 thoroughfare
demanded the traffic to stop while he took photographs of his daughter getting into the
carriage.
Sidney was perhaps into his 70's by now, with little or no hair on his head and a little portly,
with is retirement.

The traffic was nose to tail in both directions, fortunately just outside the Church, the road
is a little wider and Sidney managed to achieve his desire despite cars and caravans