We had a meeting with a Church Wedding Clerk yesterday evening. Simply a matter of checking ID paperwork, filling in forms etc.
The fee seemed a bit high, but it includes the full service with Organ and flowers and with paid extra to have the bells on the day too.
It's all getting more and more real and exciting!
They've given us all the info on music, readings and hymns too; so I'll be downloading all the possible music for us to go through and choose. We don't need to decide...

Well it's a good thing we planned over a year in advance!
I'm only experiencing excitement at the moment, I'm sure if it was sooner I'd be seriously stressed.
We've booked Waltham Abbey Church (magnificent old church, supposedly the resting place of King Harold) for the 6th August 2011 and Waltham Abbey Town Hall (just over the road and a nice example of Art Nouveau buildings) for the evening.
We've decided on a 1940s/1950s theme for the day (because of our love of Lindy Hop and...

Well, DT and I went to a Lindy Hop workshop on Saturday. Our first one, even after all this time because they're always on Sundays and we can't do Sundays!
Anyway, Swingland had a Saturday one upstairs at the Bedford in Balham.
Not knowing what to expect (never having been to one of their classes), I was pleasantly surprised to find that they stuck to 8-count and Charleston footwork; Maybe I'm turning into a Lindy snob, but it annoys the cr4p out of me when people teach 6-count!...

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8314577.stm]Oh No the Daily Mail[/url] has attracted a record number of complaints about their reporting after Stephen Gatelys death. Jan Moir's article said Gately's death struck a blow to the "happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships". Um...being dead will tend to bring any relationship to a halt, what else can she mean? From comments like "For once again, under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different...

Saturday night. Went to the pictures - as they say in Scotland. Went to see "Fame" in fact. For those of you too young to know, its been done before as a TV series and Film. Its about students enrolling into the New York School of performing arts. They dance, sing, act, play musical instruments and have lives outside school. All of it was fine, except the last bit. The "lives outside achool" were mostly pointless/unresolved/lame/cheap plot threads - so story wise I'd give it...