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Anniversary night
We had big plans for drinks, dinner, cocktails and cigars. But then real life interfered. Katy was tired, the weather was shit and I had a less-than-stellar day at work.
But this is why I love my wife. She said it was OK to just crash at home, open a nice bottle of wine, order in a pizza and just watch the Great British Bake Off. And everything just worked.
I love my wifey. And I probably don’t tell her often enough.
Long overdue status update
Lost of things have been happening, and not much, at the same time.
We had our new cooker delivered Monday of last week. It’s all shiny and new and works very well (if a bit scarily too-well). I’ll need to adjust my timings for it but at least it has fire in its belly (!) compared to the old one.
We went to Snape Maltings on Tuesday so that I could visit the farm shop that Katy had raved about from her last jaunt with Donna. I have to say that I’m impressed and we could spend a serious chunk of change there :) We bought some tomato chutneys that I can actually eat, mandarin flavoured olive oil (they didn’t have the lemon flavoured that I already have and love) and some flame-grilled artichoke hearts that have already been found quite tasty on pizzas and marginally less so in my pasta sauce. We had pancakes with some really, really, really(!) good bacon for brunch and then we headed back home through a warren of country back roads. It’s a good thing we had the satnav :)
We went to Lakeside on Wednesday to scope out some preliminary ideas for xmas presents and to try and get a Costco membership. Lakeside was ok. We stopped at Cafe Rouge for lunch. I like Cafe Rouge. It’s generally a nice meal that is also fairly safe, allergy-wise. I had a bit of a surprise this time though. I’d ordered a steak-filled baguette and ended up with a steak and fish-flavoured mayo baguette for my troubles. I don’t know what the kitchen staff did, but they managed to get bits of fish (big enough to point out to Katy and a rather flabbergasted waiter) in my sandwich. No wonder the taste was off… Anyway, they were very apologetic and comped my meal, so that wasn’t too bad. The onion soup was nice as usual though. Costco was a big disappointment. Apparently, neither the EBI or Babraham qualify as valid companies for an individual membership :( I’ll see if I can wangle a membership through somebody at work.
We recently celebrated our 5-year meeting-up anniversary on Oct 1st and our 3-year wedding anniversary on Oct 2nd. I wrote Katy a sappy card and she wrote me a cynical one. It pretty much sums us up :) We were in Leicester this weekend. We had a nice meal at San Carlos and Katy was really happy that we could eat off of each other’s plate. It’s a silly thing, when you think about it, but it very rarely can happen because of my allergies. The food was very nice, as usual, and the cocktails at Las Iguanas were also very nice :) They had a continental market in town with lots of interesting foodstuffs but we were full and cashless, so we headed home.
The car decided that wanted a makeover this weekend and had aspirations to become a muscle car. To that effect, it decided that its exhaust system really needed a throaty growl so it reworked itself to bypass the back-box. Sadly, Katy decided that she preferred to have acceleration, gas mileage and full use of her hearing instead of having the only Toyota Corolla that sounded like a supercar and took her car into the garage yesterday. We would have gotten it done in Leicester but nobody had the parts around to do it on short notice.
Today is Katy’s first day back at work and she’s of mixed minds about going back. Scratch that, both of her minds don’t want to, to be honest. If she can handle it for the short term, it’ll give us a bit of a chance to sort out longer-term options.
The beastie is doing well, even though he’s been a bit of a handful in the past few days. He caught a cold – which he will share with us soon enough – and we think that his teeth are giving him some grief. Other than that, we think he’s just on the cusp of being mobile. The cats look worried. I don’t blame them.
List of traditional and modern anniversary gifts
I was looking for a list of traditional anniversary gifts when I realized that many sources online have a “modern” list, as well as the trad one.
I’m sorry, but I’m frankly appalled with the modern one. It reeks of crass commercialism. It’s capitalism at its best. Flowers aren’t good enough, you need a dishwasher! I also like the fact that a number of new symbolic anniversaries have been added to the list when they didn’t exist beforehand. It’s good to know that I need to save up to buy some “Improved Real Estate” in 42 years.
People suck.
1st Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Paper
Modern Gifts: Clocks
2nd Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Cotton
Modern Gifts: China
3rd Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Leather
Modern Gifts: Crystal
4th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Fruit or Flowers
Modern Gifts: Appliances
5th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Wood
Modern Gifts: Silverware
6th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Candy or Iron
Modern Gifts: Wood
7th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Wool or Copper
Modern Gifts: Desk Sets
8th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Bronze or Pottery
Modern Gifts: Linens or Lace
9th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Pottery and Willow
Modern Gifts: Leather
10th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Tin or Aluminium
Modern Gifts: Diamond Jewellery
11th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Steel
Modern Gifts: Fashion Jewellery
12th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Silk or Linen
Modern Gifts: Pearls
13th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Lace
Modern Gifts: Textiles or Furs
14th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Ivory
Modern Gifts: Gold Jewellery
15th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Crystal
Modern Gifts: Watches
16th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Silver Hollowware
17th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Furniture
18th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Porcelain
19th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Bronze
20th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: China
Modern Gifts: Platinum
21st Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Brass or Nickel
22nd Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Copper
23rd Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Silver Plate
24th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Musical Instruments
25th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Silver
Modern Gifts: Silver
26th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Original Pictures
27th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Sculpture
28th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Orchids
29th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Furniture
30th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Pearl
Modern Gifts: Diamond
31st Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Time Pieces
32nd Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Conveyances
33rd Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Amethyst
34th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Opal
35th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Coral
Modern Gifts: Jade
36th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Bone China
37th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Alabaster
38th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Beryl or Tourmaline
39th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Lace
40th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Ruby
Modern Gifts: Ruby
41st Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Land
42nd Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Improved Real Estate
43rd Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Travel
44th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Groceries
45th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Sapphire
Modern Gifts: Sapphire
46th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Original Poetry
47th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Books
48th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Optical Goods
49th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Luxuries
50th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Gold
Modern Gifts: Gold
52nd Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Ruby
55th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Emerald
Modern Gifts: Emerald
60th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Yellow Diamond
Modern Gifts: Diamond
65th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Star Sapphire, Gray
67th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Star Sapphire, Purple
75th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts: Diamonds, Diamond Like Stones, Gold
Modern Gifts: Diamond, Gold
80th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Diamond, Pearl
85th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Diamond, Sapphire
90th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Diamond, Emerald
95th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: Diamond, Ruby
100th Wedding Anniversary
Traditional Gifts:
Modern Gifts: 10K Diamond
One year ago today…
…someone new appeared in my life.
Who could have thunk it, that one year later, I'd be writing this entry in Merry Ole England.
All because of my cat.
Edit: Nat had sent me pics earlier in the week. I finally had the time to scan a few. So, for all of you, here's my kitty:
