I want a short, short man
Short men make better husbands, and make up in wisdom what they lack in stature - BBC News Article Not that this is news to me, I could have told them with all my 5'2" frame that being on the left of...
View ArticleBlessed are the Cheesemakers
A wedding should contain a solemn message of the commitment you are making to each other, it should also show how we should care for those around us as well. For when you enter into marriage you are...
View ArticleWedding booking drama
Conversation at work today touched on weddings, a subject that still fills me with fear. Not over the fact I did it, or the day itself, but the panics that were totally unnecessary in the run up to the...
View ArticleNot doing Valentine’s Day
It is Valentine’s Eve in Maison-G and there are no last minute panics about tomorrow. No rushing out to the garage for flowers or desperately trying to find some thick paper to print off a home card....
View ArticleThe anger of singledom, or Cut Off
I have a few “lonely” days coming up where Mrs G and the Feliciraptor are out and about and I’m to be left on my lonesome. Even though I am by myself I still don’t really feel alone, it has been a long...
View ArticleMore than a Feeling, or I Want to Know What Love Is
What is the word for the feeling you have when you are happy to let one person keep you up late and another to wake you early? You may not want to see the high or low numbers on the alarm clock...
View ArticleSettling down, or Hello Goldilocks!
Life is full of choices, some are really difficult like “Should I have three or four slices of bacon?” while others are rather more complex like “What colour socks should I wear today?” To help you out...
View ArticlePlenty of Fish, or Close but no Cigar
While reorganising my Gmail inbox I had a curious email come through. It told me that I had had someone view my online profile at a dating site I’d been signed up to over two years ago. At the time I...
View ArticleOur Wedding, or All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Normally I don’t like to get excited about events, for if you hype it up too much you are only going to end up disappointed. Yet I have been lucky enough to have a few moments where the excitement was...
View ArticleLet it go, or Forgive and Forget?
“This reminds me of an episode of How I met Your Mother” – Mrs G on more than one occasion. You could replace How I met Your Mother with Seinfeld or Friends, but the principle is the same, a lot of...
View ArticleThose Bachelor Days, or Linger
Tonight is the last night for a week where I have parental responsibility, the Feliciraptor will be spending a few nights at Grandma G’s and then she and Mrs G are off to Berlin for a few days leaving...
View ArticleAngry Fairy Tales, or Happily Ever After
y Well I have a blog, and like countless other ‘bloggers’ think that people want to hear my ramblings as if I am some amazing svengali spouting words of wisdom and great meaning. However, at the moment...
View ArticleNot an Island, I am a Rock
Sometimes people need reminding that they are important. Life is pretty big and crazy that we can feel like tiny outcrops of rock being hammered by the waves of live, slowly eroding us until we...
View ArticleToss a coin, or Revisionist History
I don’t believe in going back and changing history, it is easy to redefine one event for a different outcome but there is little heed paid to the ripples of your new reality. When you toss a coin and...
View ArticleMarriage, or Born to Be With You
I often have discussions with Mrs G about the impact each of us had had on the others lives. It tends to be one of those in depth conversations where she is on the laptop and I saving various...
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