29th October - 1st November 2004
The Cloister House - Melrose, Scottish Borders

Halloween + Eight jolly people + Gravestones + Luxurious Home + Pumpkins + Lots of Wine!

It's all there below for you to relive and stare in amazemement at! This is the first Vivat Trust property we've stayed in but certainly won't be the last. It was quite a trek to get to, but was well worth it. If you fancy staying in this building or any of the others available, visit the website of The Vivat Trust

1. Our Cloister House, interesting to have gravestones on the doorstep.	2. The residents, looking right royal.	3. It was Andrew's birthday the day before we arrived so we had cake and wine (like we needed an excuse).
4. Feasting on Lasagne!	5. Foxy Ladies - Melanie and Caroline	6. More Foxy Ladies - Justine and Claire.
7. Frolicking around a graveyard isn't the most conventional way to have fun on your holidays!	8. The house was in the grounds of Melrose Abbey which we visited and climbed all the way to the top of...	9. One of the gargoyles atop Melrose Abbey
10. More graveyard antics with some ladies of the night.	11. We looked for the bootmaker but sadly he was nowhere to be seen.	12. Surely this goes against Equal Opportunities rules?
13. Claire and Jason, scooped and sculpted Pumkins while I took the contents and made Halloween Soup.	14. And the end result looked like this!	15. Spooooooky!
16. Spooky dancing in demonic attire. Oooooooh!	17. I tried to look like the Devil but ended up looking more like and deranged moose.	18. More food and drink, note the lovely little pointy hats; very Pet Shop Boys!?
19. Horny Devil.	20.Wigs and Lippy - great name for a double act?	21. Phil Oakey was summoned from the past to come and perform Halloween Human League hits for us.

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