Archive for August, 2010
Coming clean
Preparing for a wedding is not a trivial undertaking. Preparing for any kind of visitors is not a trivial undertaking in our house, and this would be an occasion when we would be entertaining friends we had not seen for over ten years. So the house needed to be tidy; extra special tidy. Meanwhile other [...]
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They think it’s all over…
I am sure that everyone will be delighted to hear that it is now over, and that both the wedding ceremony and subsequent celebrations appear to have been a great success. The bride accompanied by Bridefather arrived fashionably late and the wedding ceremony took place without stumbled lines, fainting or cries of “Yes – I [...]
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Wedding Day Dawns
I think it’s arrived about a week too early. MOB is preparing flowers, continuing from yesterday’s late-night burst of cupcake and pew-end poesy making. B and BM1 are surveying things, the BOBs have spent the night in the tipi and I am about to go and see if the recalcitrant ancient automobile will choose to [...]
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Busy busy busy
Since getting home it’s been a continuous round of tidying and getting things ready – and I’m tired so instead of eleven thousand words…
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New starts
Four days to go. It’s obviously a week for new beginnings, so I’m rewriting my speech and finding new ties. Having carefully prepared my speech I delivered it to MOB and didn’t get the response I was expecting. I’m not sure what response I was expecting, but it wasn’t “It’s a bit dull”. I think [...]
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No pain, no gain
My daughter causes me great pain and suffering on occasions – see! With only one week left until the wedding (what wedding I hear you cry) last weekend was to be the Great Tidy. This was the opportunity to get the house shipshape and ready to greet the hordes invited to descend upon us the [...]
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Your time starts … Now.
Not only was my train cancelled because the incoming service had developed “emergency engineering works at Newark” but every other train leaving London for Yorkshire was not running because of a euphemistic “Police Incident” displayed on the screens but a “Person struck by a train” on the station announcements. At least an hour’s worth of [...]
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Getting knotted
Nine days to go – and today I will buy a tie. My tie will match the colour of MOB’s dress (I hope). So we will co-ordinate while posing for photgraphs and sitting at the top table. I haven’t brought MOB’s dress down to London with me, but I did think ahead and have brought [...]
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Adding and editing
Ten days to go, and I have committed my father of the bride speech to hard disk. I wrote most of it a couple of weeks ago in a pub. On my way back from the office to my hotel I stopped for a refreshing pint and wrote the first draft on my second hand [...]
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Unhelping
Only eleven days to go, so things are becoming slightly frenetic but last weekend I did my best to complete all the tasks I was set so I: • Painted the kitchen offshot ceiling • Painted the dining room ceiling and wall above the picture rail • Stuck down the loose wall paper in the [...]
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