Nine years on

Today is our "courtship anniversary" - nine years since our first date! Ah... it all seems a long time ago. It wasn't all plain sailing - we had a long-distance relationship for much of the first six years. Until I moved over three years ago, we initially saw each other for only a fortnight every nine months, and things later "improved" to a week every three or six months. That pretty much remained the pattern until - among other things - I got sick of thirteen-hour flights and I could afford the buy-out clause in my contract. Long story, and not one I particularly feel the need to re-tell.

She is the sweetest thing in the world to me.