So, it’s been about 5 months since I last posted anything. This hasn’t been because nothing has happened, but more because I’d got bored of writing on my blog (having been writing one for over a year at that point). However, after literally tens of people have been moaning at me to write something I’ve decided it’s time to start posting again. So here we go with a quick catch up of my last 5 months (so apologies in advance if this turns out to be a rather long post).
The big news (which of course 99.99% of you reading this blog will know) is that the wonderful, if slightly foolish, Lizzy has agreed to marry me and on the 21st July next year she will take on the slightly strange name of Grinnell.
For those of you (basically the girls) that are interested in the details:
I asked her to marry me in the gardens of Buckingham palace (this in no way makes me a royalist, it just means that I can appreciate the fact that the Queen does have a rather nice house and gardens and that if I am going to have to be there I might as well take advantage of that). I hadn’t brought a ring before hand since my ability to pick out jewellery is practically non-existent, I brought Lizzy a necklace for Christmas last year that I know she absolutely hates even though she’s never admitted it.
Since then we’ve been busy planning a wedding. By planning of course, I mean Lizzy planning and me saying ‘anything you want dear’ followed by the signing of increasingly large and worrisome cheques.
So what else has been happening?
Well, work is going well and continues as normal (just on my lunch break now in fact).
I went on holiday to Tunisia with Jimmy (our new housemate). We stayed in a hotel where the majority of the guests made me look posh and the staff had seen too many episodes of hi-de-hi. Every morning we were accosted by the entertainment staff to join in the game of water polo and every day we’d say ‘no thank you, we’re quite happy lying in the sun reading our books thank you very much’ and so were christened ‘the lazy boys’.
I am now an uncle. My sister gave birth to a wonderful baby girl, Elisha. I would give details of weight and stuff that I know some people (girls again) find so interesting but I can’t remember them, cos I don’t find them interesting, I was just pleased both Elisha and my sister were ok.
Now all that boring stuff’s out of the way some interesting things:
George Martin, the genius producer of all the Beatles albums (apart from ‘let it be’ that Phil Spector over produced) has, along with his son, gone back to the original tapes of the Beatles recording sessions and remixed a whole new album of ‘songs you know but will have never heard like this before’. Now, as most of you will know, I love the Beatles, but I’ve become increasingly annoyed with the number of different released of Beatles albums that basically are just everything I already own in a different order so I wasn’t that bothered about this release, until I heard the 4 songs posted on
the Beatles website. George Martin has taken the sometimes overly familiar songs, cut them down, found different takes, used different arrangements and has made something, that if it lives up the promise of the 4 tracks posted (especially Strawberry Fields and While my guitar gently weeps) will be wonderful to listen to. You should check them out at on the
the website.
Right, that’s all I’m writing for now, lunch break, as well as my break from the world of blog, is over. I’ll just leave you with one of the best comments Lizzy has made over these past 5 months:
“I hate driving at night, I have to use my senses”.
How can you not love her?
