It’s a strangely muggy sort of day today. I was up and about early while the sun was still shining but every so often it tried to rain on me. It’s not managed it yet. I heard heavy rain in the night and thunderstorms are forecast for today. We’ll see how it goes.
On Saturday I took to the charity shop in Uppermill the high chair which has been cluttering up our kitchen ever since Grandson Number Two outgrew it. Then yesterday I spotted the try for that high chair, which somehow got left behind. So this morning my mission was to take that tray to the shop and reunite it with the high chair. Mission accomplished!
However, at some point I need my daughter to load some bags of discarded clothing into her car and take them to a charity shop. The de-cluttering continues!
The Paris Olympics have come to an end. We didn’t watch the closing cermony but I hear it was quite a spectacular, with Tom Cruise having a starring role as he whisked the Olympic flag off the Los Angeles. That’s another city that will spend a few years and lots of money trying to outdo the spectacle of its predecessors.
Here’s another expensive business. A young friend and former student has been posting pictures on Facebook, labelled something like ‘My sister’s hen party - part one’ and ‘My sisters hen party - part 2’. How many parts does a hen party need? I wondered. Then I remembered this article I had found, looking at weddings from a bridesmaid’s point of view.
It seems that the whole wedding business has gone even more crazy. Whoever is designated chief bridesmaid is now expected to organise the hen party, something that never used to exist but ‘equality’ demands that if the groom has a stag party the bride should have a hen party. The terminology is hardly egalitarian though: “stag” suggests a rather noble beast while “hen” suggests a rather small-brained creature running round clucking stupidly. Sometimes there are two such parties, one in the UK and one abroad, but it is the chief bridesmaid’s job to book everything and to make sure that the bride is happy!
Good grief! It’s an expensive business, especially as bridesmaids are usually expected to pay for their own dresses. One bridesmaid tells how she “paid for her bridesmaid dress and for the hair and makeup artist. In total, she thinks she spent comfortably more than £1,000 on her friend’s wedding. Except they are no longer friends. Some time later, she says, “I got ditched. It was similar to the excommunication of the first bridesmaid.”
And that’s another thing: friendships don’t always survive the whole wedding process!
The “long white dress of love” causes havoc before it gets stored away in the back of the wardrobe!
Time to bring back the romance of elopement - run away and get married quietly!
There are more important things in life than arguing over wedding protocol.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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