“Dad & the Wedding” Chapter 6
Bridal Underwear “I can’t see her, Dave, darling, can you just – no MOVE your head I can’t see her if you’re there, will you just – oh for GOODNESS SAKE!” Dad’s close up and squinting face is taking up…
Archive for September, 2013
“Dad & the Wedding” Chapter 5
But What Will I WEAR?? Part II Mum’s Outfit “Darling, is this Coldplay?” a voice behind the curtain asked me. “Yes.” “He’s LITERALLY baying at the moon in this one isn’t he, poor chap, someone should put him out of…
“Dad & The Wedding” Chapter 4
The Dress One’s wedding dress is something that you start to think about from a very young age. From the days of turning a pillow case into a veil or walking your Barbie down the aisle to Ken (or your…
“Dad & the Wedding” Chapter 3
An Apology“Are you still doing the fatted calf?” “Sorry?” “The calf – you know the thing on the fire with the stick…that spins – you know – the fatted…..calf?” He tried, eyebrows rising into befuddled vegetarian confusion. “Do you mean…
“Dad & the Wedding” Chapter 2
“But What Will I WEAR??”“Darling, hi, it’s Mum” “Hiiiiiii” I croaked from the depths of my bed. “Darling? Darling? Jem? Darling it’s MUM!” Despite having her number stored in my phone for the best part of 17 years, which means…
The Wedding-8
The FEAST of FEASTS.Well the seemingly impossible journey was on; bouncing out of the main church doors to the sound of ‘O Happy Day’ and Beyonce’s ‘Love on top’, the challenge was to get from a West Central London church…
The Wedding-7
Well here we are now, three days after the event, and it was like witnessing an express train speeding through the station.So many great memories, thoughts, smiles, cocktails and people in such a short space, it was head-whirling. I did…
The Wedding -6
Considering that its now less than a week to go, I think I’d better start planning my speech.From the moment Jem was born, I was aware that this day would eventually come and that there was one certain fact; that…
The Wedding-5
The Countdown to the day.It’s now less than three weeks to go before the Wedding day. What seemed like a leisurely several months has now been reduced to clearly countdownable days with lists, memos and E mails filling the ethernet….
