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Love is in the air!

Barbara Maggs and James McLoud, a couple of toastmasters who have helped 500 weddings to run smoothly, have married each other.  The couple met four years ago and chose to tie the knot today in Thornbury.  Barbara is one of only 12 professionally-trained women toastmasters in the whole of the country.  Her role includes announcing the cutting of the cake and the after-dinner speeches.  They are understood to be the only married toastmasters in the UK.   All very interesting given the importance of love in our story and how much toast figured as Ben, Julia and Sarah first tried to make sense of the 12 ’sacred’ stones used by Sarah in an innocent game of marbles!

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Meanwhile, a Torquay couple, have become the first to marry in what’s believed to be Britain’s oldest human-inhabited prehistoric cave system - Kent’s Cavern in Devon.  Axes found in the cave have been dated at 450,000 years ago.  The temperature inside the cave is a constant 14c.  Ms Woodland and Mr Duckworth offered the guests a cake with figurines of a cave man and cave woman on top!  Most curious given the talk in our tale of  ‘not going back to living in a cave!’ and the role of the Royston Cave.

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Time to celebrate love in nature …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmewqEUZHU&feature=related

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