Ruby Tuesday – A Party To Remember!

Wow – well it was an amazing afternoon! The lady of the moment was incredible how she just kept on keeping on. We estimated by the amount of name tags written out that there were about 150 people or so that crammed into that little church hall – all to see Ruby!

The ladies from the Church Guild did a magnificent job with the food! It was plentiful, beautiful and there was such a variety!

Grandson, Simon & his wife Marsha organised the cake, via a friend. It was so bold and cheerful, with both the nurse & garden theme – both an equally big part of Ruby’s life!

There was a constant line up to get a ‘Ruby-Hug’ a chat and to wish her many happy returns

My parents, Sister Michelle & her family organised the signing book – Michelle and Tony did the creative part of putting it together, my parents funded it! It turned out beautifully with lots of people signing which will be a great memory of the day (proper photo of book to come later!)

I don’t think Ruby knows about the guestbook yet, so it will be fun to see them present it to her.

Hilariously, with the USB full of photos of Ruby, early days and now, was put into a projector that no adult could work. After about an hour some bright spark went and grabbed a 13-year-old. Riley – Ruby’s Great Grandson – who had it up and running within 3 minutes! Cracked me up!

A most exciting part of the afternoon was Ruby opening her letter from the Queen!!

Margaret read out the message for the guests and Ruby, proud as punch, held her card aloft for us all to see!

There were a few short speeches from Ruby’s grandsons and adopted son on behalf of the family of her second marriage (how I became lucky enough to join this family) which were lovely.

I couldn’t believe how Ruby just kept up with it all!!

Can you believe that even after going for about 4 hours at this party – she went home to put her feet up and then went out to another dinner with about 50 people and didn’t get home until 10pm!!!

She said she was a bit tired after all that, but she was determined to put her “Best Foot Forward, and even if it falls off, well… I’ll worry about that tomorrow” Said with a typical Ruby-Grin.

We saw her a couple of days later and she is still full of crazy energy – dragged us all over the house to see cards strung up everywhere and more flowers than before!

It makes me so happy that she had the most wonderful day.

She said to me “Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined such a party”

Cheers!