Rowan Tree and Red Thread

It's ten years ago today that sammywol and I signed the paper in the registry office in Cork and were married. We tend to celebrate by preference the 19th of September which is the anniversary of our wedding celebration and the exchange of vows before our families and friends. Which is handy given the acts of some mad bastards on our official anniversary in 2001.

Anyway, ten years. Wow. It seems a long time when I see it written down but it doesn't seem all that long in memory. Which is strange as my long-term memory is highly selective and stuff twenty years ago is all a blur, making 10 years half a (dimly-recalled) lifetime.

So. Happy anniversary sammywol. I love you, and it's been a fulfilling ten years. I won't say unforgettable, as my head's a sieve, but I hope for many more decades for me to cherish and forget in your company.

On my way into work now, after an early start courtesy of the end of Summer Time and Oscar. Awake and active at about 5.00 this morning, he was. He's usually an early riser and coupled with the clocks going back this weekend he's now a ridiculously early riser. Stupid Summer Time.

It's made worse by the expectation that next Sunday my wife is going into hospital for a gall bladder operation. She'll likely be away for at least two nights and Oscar is entirely used to a bedtime routine centred round his mother. I lack a couple of important assets, you see.

Well, he's in for a rude awakening. Unfortunately I will be too, no doubt.

I'm taking all of next week off to man the home front during Sam's hospital stay and subsequent recovery. Thank goodness my job has that sort of flexibility
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