A personal note
Blogging will be rather light over the next couple of weeks. As you may have noticed, I’ve been trying to post more regularly of late (a combination of having time on my hands and a decision to be more disciplined with my writing… I’m committed to spending a certain amount of time every day writing; depending on my mood it might be working on fiction, the book of essays I’m putting together, or this blog).
However, the lovely Citizen S and myself will be getting married in a week and a half (I know! Who’d have thunk it? And so long as I can keep her from sobering up for the next ten days, it should actually happen). It’s going to be a very small (non-religious) affair and most of the planning and organisation is already done. All the same, I imagine I’ll have less time than usual to sit around in my dressing-gown posting stuff here.
I’ve got articles in the drafts folder that probably only need a few more minutes, so hopefully activity here won’t come to a complete halt. But do expect a lull for a couple of weeks.
Oh, and wish us well!
16 responses to "A personal note"
April 13th, 2010 | 10:48pm by Cat Vincent
Congrats! Long and happy life to you and the prospective missus.
April 13th, 2010 | 11:22pm by Larry Teabag
Excellence! Happy horses and carriages to you both.
April 14th, 2010 | 4:10am by eddie stack
Best wishes to you both!
April 14th, 2010 | 6:48am by Paul
And you tag this as “miscellania”? :)
Congratulations, Mr Grufty, sir. Hope it does for you what it did for me.
April 14th, 2010 | 8:25am by Justin
Fantastic news. Congratulations and many happy years for you both.
April 14th, 2010 | 11:50am by Jim Bliss
Many thanks for the well wishes, folks. I can’t say as I ever expected to be getting married, but I’m very happy about it now that I am.
Well, Paul, I figured a “I’m getting married” category wouldn’t be used much after this post.
April 14th, 2010 | 12:25pm by Rachel
Congratulations! I’m very happy for you both and I hope things go off without a hitch. As it were.
[Completely off-topic and not sure if you're interested: my old blog is listed on your blogroll as "in hiatus", as indeed it is, but I've moved the whole edifice over to the new URL above. I remain a devoted lurker here :).]
April 14th, 2010 | 12:39pm by Jim Bliss
Thanks Rachel. I hope all’s well with you. I’ve updated my blogroll (and fixed the URL on your comment!) Glad to hear you’re still about.
April 15th, 2010 | 7:53pm by RA
Jim.
I wish you lots of wellness in your marriage ceremony/life etc.
I loved getting married. It was a splendid party at which I got to choose the music, drink and eat nice things and to dance with a beautiful woman who I love dearly. A good day all round. I hope you both derive equal pleasure from the event.
Peace and love,
Richard
April 16th, 2010 | 3:04pm by flaneur
Crikey and holy moley! Heartiest congratulations to you both.
April 16th, 2010 | 4:00pm by Lucas
Many congratulations!
April 18th, 2010 | 12:11pm by Dave Pettit
Fucking ‘ell Jim, that was out of the blue (to me at least). All the best old chap!
April 19th, 2010 | 4:58pm by Jim Bliss
Thanks guys.
Unfortunately a volcano in Iceland is playing havoc with our plans (my future in-laws had flights booked for the end of last week… now we’re pretty much in limbo). All a bit stressful.
April 25th, 2010 | 7:07pm by hoop
I heard today that some of the airlines were up & running again for those routes, don’t know if that helps.
Also, might I be the first to say that an “I’m getting married” category is precisely the sort of thing this blog needs. It could be like your sunday food column or something: “This week i am ‘getting married’ to conservative leader David Cameron. Here’s photo’s of our cake”. That sort of thing. Reality TV’s on its way out. This could be big.
April 28th, 2010 | 1:28am by R J Adams
It’s, hopefully, rather belated by now, but all the very best to bride and groom. Congratulations to you both.
May 1st, 2010 | 10:41pm by Jim Bliss
Thanks again, everyone, for the well-wishes. The volcano abated at the last minute and we were able to arrange flights for my new in-laws for the night before the wedding. The day itself went swimmingly with even the notoriously unpredictable Irish weather giving us its blessing.
And now I’m a married man. Yay.
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