Dear thronged masses who I know are checking here daily with bated breath that I might actually write something,

(Ahem. Note irony please)

If you have been told by many people that planning a wedding is stressful, I am happy to say you have been lied to. Well, I’m not happy that you have been deceived, this is not good, but I am happy to say that it’s not that complicated really!

Basic ingredients:

Groom – tick

Church – tick

Reception meal – going to see them on monday to confirm booking

Evening ceilidh – tick (in church again, lots of space)

Ceilidh band – tick (I went to school with a really good one)

Bridesmaids – tick, tick, tick

Best Man – tick

Flowers – tick (being done by lady from church who once won gold at Chelsea flower show)

Car – found online a 1931 Sunbeam 20 once owned by George V, awaiting confirmation

Music – tick

Organist – tick

Piper – tick

Honeymoon – tick (no I will not tell you where)

…all that remains is clothing really! Awesome.

[My fiance interjects here that clothing is unneccessary as it will all come off in the end!]

So life is pretty good here,  things are coming together well.

In other news, I’ve moved jobs – Rotation Day was a couple of weeks ago, so I’m now working in general surgery. The rota is pretty weird – it’s a rolling rota, repeating every 2 months, and one of the months is pretty nice, while the other is 12 days on the emergency team followed by 10 days on hepatobiliary, which are pretty much 13 hour days, yuk. I started half way through HPB which is great, so I’m in the easier month over Christmas! Right now I’m on lates, which is a bit of a mixed bag – it can be really nice, but it can be busy and stressful as hell.

The best thing is I’m off on Christmas Day! Sweet! Spending it with the nearly-in-laws…I may have to post on that later!

Hope you all have a good Christmas and the docs among you get some days off!