Penny C Got Married

Two long catch up phone calls last night, one from Penny, one from Nigel.

I’d had an e-mail about Penny’s wedding on Wednesday – I knew she had always wanted a quiet, unfussy ceremony, and also knew that her parents (and especially her mother) had set their hearts on a big family occasion. Penny (and Brian) got their way on this one – Nuneaton Registry Office at lunchtime on a January afternoon, and not some big jamboree down in Portsmouth.

It turns out that I’ve given them a pretty good wedding present already – well, not so much as ‘given’ as ‘sold on’. I parted with both my DVD sets of “The West Wing” a fortnight ago and they’ve watched all the episodes they hadn’t seen before in about five days flat.

I asked Mrs Huston if it felt strange having a new signature, and she does miss the dangling double pp’s from her previous name. We’ve made plans in March to see “Roman Holiday” at the NFT and anything else that doesn't make it to our local cinemas ("Pieces of April" possibly).

Nigel needed cheering up after ten solid hours in the projection booth, with only one other person to help him out. He's figured out how to burn his Minidisc bootlegs on to CD, so we planned out which Cambridge concerts we both wanted : John Prine and Eric Bibb in particular.

Here's my chance to test this lj cut stuff:
( Oscar speculation! )

I wonder if that worked. Lets have a look.