The Husband

Some recent comments alerted me to the fact that some of my blogging friends are In the Dark. So here, Jen, Mary and Pritha, are some links to help essplain.

In brief. We were married in Cape Town in January, at my parents' house, three months and three days after our first meeting in New York, and just short of six months after stumbling upon each other on the Web...

Try here, here, here for the Big Day, here for Vince's impressions, and here for some penguins, there for a lunch under tree and groom-inspection, and then here for the trip afterwards...And gallery here to sum it all up! Phew.

But yes. I have a husband. We had to be a bit circumspect. Not one, not two, but four countries and four nationalities are involved despite the fact that there are only two of us. There are borders, papers, stamps, permissions, denials and bureaucracies and we did not trumpet the union intitially. Also it seemed at the time, a very intimate and unexpectedly happy affair and we didn't go about it in the usual fashion. There were 6 people at our wedding, including the officiant. And there were two of us at the reception, on Clifton's Third Beach.

One day we hope to have a dinner (maybe at Al di La [and the next time we went back he did order three courses of malfatti]?) where as many of our North American friends as possible can be in the same place at the same time. We may all be using Zimmer frames then but we will still know how to eat and drink.