Yesterday was our 33rd anniversary.
If I didn’t have bursitis of the elbow – my god, what next ?! such a collapsing old crock …
I would write in depth. About this and a million other things, plenty of them perfumed.
But I can’t.
Suffice it to say, I came back late from work, we had sparkling and a midnight feast on the balcony, reminisced a little and agreed that we could hardly relate to the kids we were then but were glad to be the versions of ourselves we are now – crumbling skeleton included.
We got together on a June 17th. I was out with my friend George. D was out with his friend Elissa. We all danced to house music in the basement of King’s College Cambridge and then flirted and gravitated towards our future partners.
Heady days…
Congratulations to G and E – we will always have the same anniversary – down to minutes and seconds …
x
Dear Neil,
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Congratulations—33 years is really an achievement. And it is also quite wonderful. I sort of envisage/ phantasize you two as serene, wise and elegant Japanese cranes, don‘t ask me why …
Anyway, celebrate your „Zweisamkeit“— two-togetherness!
Thankyou very much x
( I gavehim a small bottle of the banana ..)
Congratulations to N + D in Japan from G + E in Belgium! We’re very happy to share this anniversary with you both.
Somehow we celebrate on 16th June not the 17th. I’m not sure how that happened, but I can vouch for the fact that it was very much the same evening.
Keep dancing both of you xxx
We can’t help it ..
Happy anniversary, you two (four!) So yes. June 1993. A memorable month indeed. How can it be 33 years since we went to Trinity Ball? And danced on the table in Macdonalds in the early hours as we wandered back … goodness me. We were children – long may it continue xx
Did we dance in McDonald’s? !
Congratulations to both couples! What a milestone! Though I suppose when you’re comfortable with each other the years fly by. (It will be 30 years for me this autumn, after a late start, unless we majorly fall out by then…). How wonderful that you found life partners in that way.
I mean as you know these things are never plain sailing – and I am monstrously neurotic – so never assume it is forever.
But I definitely don’t want anybody else.
That’s the main thing. Meanwhile, “live for pleasure/ beauty while hopefully not being completely morally vacuous” is a motto for life—for those of us who are not setting up hospitals/saving lives/leading nations. Hope you get some relief from the ailments somehow with good medical care.
Finding the right soul to dance a lifetime with is a blessing. Congratulations to both you & D and G & E as well.
Arigato
It was never meant to be a lifetime ( but I hope it is ): neither of us are really ‘couples people’ and we have some antagonisms – the Virgo / Sagittarius horrors are very real – but we have had a blast so far : we see the world in a similar way and live for pleasure/ beauty while hopefully not being completely morally vacuous
My arm is killing me though writing this – I am falling apart while he is healthy AF
Knowing the dance & the dancer means it’s acceptable to give & ask for space.
That D knows your tastes & enables this mad perfume hobby means he’s an absolute keeper
Happy anniversary to you both!
Thankyou – we usually completely forget it but there was something about the number 33
Thank you to Emma, Hanamini and alityke for the additional anniversary wishes!
Congratulations!!
Happy Anniversary (and many more to come!)
Happy anniversary!!