Harry's Blog

Some of you are no doubt aware of the significance of today's date. Today is exactly one year to the day that Lanie and I got married.

I find myself wondering what to expect to feel today because clearly the date is a significant one. But its significance - in terms of being a day I'm upset or melancholy or something - isn't really very relevant to my real feelings.

I'm okay folks I really am.

Well as okay as I usually am on Sunday morning, the part of the week that I really don't like at all¹ - but I won't bore you with the whys of that.

I think to a great extent the surety of my faith and what happens when we die means that I am at peace about many things. And let's be honest - you've seen over the last few months the wonderful and surprising turn my life has taken - how could anyone bemoan something so wonderful?

I'm from a Roman Catholic family, though a liberal Protestant Christian by practice and so there many aspects of losing a loved one that are different from my family. There's that surety in my faith - so that I don't gain comfort or seek comfort in continued masses for the dead, worry over the location of their eternal rest and so on.

I'm getting on with life. And a damn fine life it is too.

Jo is, as you might expect, more concerned for me than I am. She is as brilliant, kind and caring as ever and making sure that on this oddest of dates that if I fall to bits she'll be there to sweep me up and put me back together. Lesser men might use such a day to their advantage, me, I'm a good boy!²

Our real main concern this weekend is actually Patrick and Kitty who are both full of a cold, with Kitty sounding more congested than her brother. Actually today they seem much better than yesterday - but this is still something new for us to deal with as parents and watching our babes struggle is sad.

But anyway, there we go. I only popped on to make a quick post to explain to any of you remembering the date that I'm really fine thankyouverymuch. I'll be happier still when the wife...soon to be wife³...gets home from work. In the meantime I may educate the twins in the fine details of FIFA 08 on Xbox 360, Halo 3 being a bit too jumpy for them.

I need to teach the twins about the Manchester United squad. If I try hard enough when Jo isn't around I can perhaps avoid them following her footsteps and supporting the scum. She sang "Blue is the Colour" to them yesterday, that's really not on is it?⁴

Anyway, I'm digressing now so I may as well finish. But as you can seem, I'm doing good folks.

/skips merrily out of blog post.

_{¹Though in the scheme of things I'm so happy much of the time that unhappy now is still cheerier than most of the rest of my life.
²Relatively!
³I keep thinking of Jo as my wife as we work so well as a team and we are a happy little family now - so April 5th 2008 will be a confirmation of what we have, rather than just the beginning of something new. That and a bloody great party.
⁴But then there's mixed feelings of it being so brilliant to have a girlfriend that is a genuine football fan.}