I’m on honeymoon! No time to write an amusing round up of the week’s activities – this plate of cheese isn’t going to eat itself. Instead, a selection of photos of my new husband, drinking.
Month: February 2016
Traditions
Really, I’m getting married today. But technically/legally, we did it on Thursday. I didn’t think it would mean that much, the legal bit. It’s just a formality, we didn’t get to make up our own vows, we only invited four people. But I was wrong. The ceremony was beautiful, and much more moving than I’d […]
Facing Friday – Wedding Planning Hyperdrive
The wedding is next week. BLOODY HELL. Next. Week. There is a merry crapload to do, and it is exciting and fun and knackering. If I’m honest, I’ve always kind of liked the show week/exam season feeling of “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I have SO much to do!”. Even though I moan about it all over the shop, […]
Facing Friday – Queen of the Textiles
I read True Grit by Charles Portis. Oooof. What a brilliant book. It tells, all from her perpective, the story of Mattie, a fourteen year old girl who launches a pursuit of the man who killed her father. It’s a Western, I suppose. Mattie is wonderful and the writing is spare and tight and perfect. […]