In Which There is Much Happiness

This morning dawned* cold but bright, and as I do still seem to be getting better (although not as fast as I'd like) I had limited enthusiasm about going to see my sister K, parents and K's partner, C, and his parents, who I haven't met before. K rang me up on Thursday to ask whether I'd like to join them for lunch, as I'd missed seeing them at my (other) sister's housewarming party.

[*Dawned = inference. It was cold & bright when I started paying attention, at about 9.a.m. I'm guessing it was like that at dawn, too]

The pub they picked was near Taunton (which is roughly equidistant between both sets of parents' homes) which is about 1 1/2 hours drive from here, and I'm still finding everything tiring enough that a 3-hour round trip seemed pretty daunting.

But I wanted to see everyone, so off I went. And I'm very glad I did.

The first surprise was that as well as all the people I was expecting, sister #2 was also there.

The second, and bigger surprise, was that K & C announced their engagement!!

Very happy and exciting news!

They haven't set a date for the wedding yet, but it will probably be some time next year, but over lunch we had lots of fun discussing all sorts of issues, and established that:

• C unaccountably failed to ask my Papa's permission before paying his addresses to his daughter, but that S would have said yes, had he done so.


• We officially have permission to slap K if she turns into Bridezilla


• The invitations will tell people what time food will be served at the reception (this arising from a specifc wedding we attended, where odd timings and an unusally long service meant half the congregation was faint from hunger by the time the reception started)

We did not, however, determine whether S is prepared to don morning dress & top hat, if asked to do so, in order to walk K down the aisle.

All in all, a highly satisfactory party.