{"id":813,"date":"2022-06-23T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T08:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:05:05","slug":"my-anniversary-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"My anniversary today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I (we) were married in 1979, so seven more years to go on the deal before considering a renewal. Meanwhile Brigid is in the UK -in&nbsp; Scotland right now, having visited her sister outside of London a few days ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2022\/06\/brigid-off-to-england-and-scotland-for-two-weeks-.html\">Brigid off to England and Scotland for two weeks&nbsp; <\/a>She is retracing some camping trips outside Edinburgh her Dad made when he was a student there over 90 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brigid is spending her evenings drinking scotch in pubs and no doubt carousing. This is the closest she&#8217;s sent of a picture of herself to me &#8211; really. In my imagination I can see her reflection&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a308d3210b200c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12495\" title=\"Unknown\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a308d3210b200c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a308d3210b200c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Brigid heading to the airport last Tuesday (that&#8217;s Tim)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a30d408ad2200b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12494\" title=\"20220614_134837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a30d408ad2200b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a30d408ad2200b-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here she is in 1979, at Lover&#8217;s Leap on the south coast of Jamaica, a month or two before we got married. I met Brigid in Mandeville, Jamaica &#8211; we were both teaching there and were married in Mandeville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a30d408ad5200b-450wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12492\" title=\"Lovers leap 3 (2)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a30d408ad5200b-450wi.jpg 448w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a30d408ad5200b-450wi-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I (we) were married in 1979, so seven more years to go on the deal before considering a renewal. Meanwhile Brigid is in the UK -in&nbsp; Scotland right now, having visited her sister outside of London a few days ago. Brigid off to England and Scotland for two weeks&nbsp; She is retracing some camping trips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12498,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/12498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}