APRIL 17

Today is our Wedding Anniversary

If we have to stay locked down for another eighteen months until there is a vaccine, I can’t think of anyone I’d rather spend this time with than my beloved husband.

There are reminders of our wedding all over our apartment, which is one of the reasons we’re glad to be locked down at home. The one I see most often, because it sits outside the kitchen window, is this gift from a couple of our guests, an exquisite reminder of our wedding flowers in vitreous enamel by textile designer, Janet Haigh, who also works across different materials and media.

Lily-Of-The-Vally were the flowers in my wedding bouquet and also in the huge bunch that Tricia and Tod brought, secretly, to the hotel where we were staying and had placed beside the bed so we were enveloped in their glorious scent as we collapsed after the celebrations and when we woke on our first morning as a married couple.

We were given another Janet Haigh work on our first Anniversary – traditionally commemorated by articles made from tin. Loving this, we wanted to display it to its best advantage and I even managed to contact the artist to see what kind of frame would suit it best. “Oh just bung it on a nail”, was her reply – and I do believe one should always pay attention to the vision of the artist.

Any marriage is going to be tested in these terrible times. I’m not talking abuse but the normal wear and tear of constant proximity. We are lucky to have enough room if we want to be separate, outside space to walk about in and deliveries of food by heroic young men and women swathed in motorcycle gear that looks more effective than PPE. But most of all, we are lucky to have each other.

My love, we are living through an apocalypse. All around us, people are dying, and we may be here for months or even years. Let us celebrate love, cling together and wish each other

Happy Anniversary

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If you’d like to see more of Janet Haigh’s beautiful pieces, you can Google her at Janet Haigh: Her Work