Today, my wife and I are celebrating our 19th wedding anniversary. Which is our bronze anniversary, unless I am mistaken. I checked online before blogging, of course. Suggestion for gifts: something in bronze (duh!), or some jewel with an aquamarine (for whatever reason it is the gemstone of 19th wedding anniversary), or something else. We do celebrate it the same way every year: dinner out in some nice restaurant or pub (more rarely a pub). Now that we are parents, it ends up being all about Wolfie and a bit of a rehearsal for his birthday. And there is nothing wrong with that.
Monday, 31 August 2026
Bronze Anniversary
Monday, 8 June 2026
Gâteaux
Sunday, 31 August 2025
Porcelaine anniversary
Today is my wife and I are celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary. From what I read online, it means we are celebrating our porcelaine anniversary. Although, according to Wikipedia, the 20th year of marriage is marked by the porcelaine anniversary and there's nothing between the 15th (crystal) and the 20th. So I am quite confused. Its gemstone is the chrysoberyl, commonly known as cat's eye. But in the end, what matters is that we will celebrate today with our little boy and that we built a family together.
Saturday, 31 August 2024
Until I Found You
To celebrate our wedding anniversary, I am puting this song from singer Stephen Sanchez. Of course, it wasn't sung on our wedding day, Sanchez was at the time about Wolfie's age, but both my wife and I love it, and it is fairly rare that we both love the same song (not sure if Wolfie likes it though). In any case, the song reminds me of us, so it is a fitting one.
Friday, 7 June 2024
Nouvelle information sur le Manoir
Je blogue parfois sur Manoir du Saguenay. Parce que c'est un lieu d'une certaine importance dans ma région, mais aussi parce que j'y ai eu d'excellents (quoique vagues) souvenirs. Et petit loup étant obsédé par les manoirs (j'étais pareil à son âge), il veut voir celui-ci un jour. J'ai appris récemment que le Manoir du Saguenay fait un peu partie de l'histoire familiale: c'est là que mes parents ont fêté leurs noces. Apprenant ça, Wolfie a décuplé d'enthousiasme: il veut visiter le Manoir. Si ça continue, il va vouloir y célébrer ses propres noces.
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Bouquet et mariage d'automne
Thursday, 31 August 2023
Wax Anniversary
Today is our 16th wedding anniversary, for my wife and I. It is what we call a wax anniversary apparently, or so I read online. Traditionally, you must give like presents made of wax, which is pretty reductive: that means you must give candles. And the stone that represent it, again according to a quick Google search, is the peridot. I know nothing about that stone, though I do like its green colour. But my wife does not like green things. Anyway, all this musing about wax and stones are pretty pointless: how you celebrate a marriage is truly determined by whether you have children or not. Since Wolfie entered our lives, he became the true reason for celebrating. Last year we went to a restaurant as a couple while he was babysat by his grandparents and it just felt wrong. We still don't know how we will mark our wax anniversary (we are still tired after our holidays), but we know he will be part of the celebration. Maybe by drawing us a card with wax crayons or something.
Sunday, 4 June 2023
Du blanc-manger?
Monday, 29 May 2023
A mischief of magpies
We went to a wedding two days ago, spent the night on the venue, a hotel which impressed Wolfie a lot, because we told him it was a mansion. But I digress. Leaving the place yesterday morning after breakfast, we saw lots and lots of magpies on the way to the main road. One for sorrow, two four joy, three for a girl, four for a boy... Then some more. A group of magpies is called among other things, a mischief of magpies. It can have other names, but I think I prefer to call it a mischief of magpies, because I do find magpies somewhat mischievous. Or at least they always look like they are up to something. We see plenty of magpies round here, but I don't think I ever saw so many together before. I thinkif I was superstitious, I would say it was a good omen for the newlywed couple. In any case, we saw a mischief of magpies.
Sunday, 28 May 2023
"Guilliame"
Friday, 26 May 2023
Going to a wedding
This weekend, we are going to a wedding. One of my wife's friends is getting married. We have not been to a wedding in at least ten years and even then, it was only to the wedding reception. And it will be a first for Wolfie. I hope he enjoys it. From what I remember, weddings and even wedding receptions tend to be a drag when you are a child. Although I think some of the children we had at our own wedding seemed mildly entertained. I will make a confession here: I find them a drag too, to be honest.
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
"Guilliame"
Nous avons reçu une invitation à un mariage aujourd'hui. Une amie de ma femme se marie dans quelques mois. Je crois que la dernière invitation reçue pour un mariage date d'une dizaine d'années, sinon plus. Sur l'invitation, ils ont épellé mon nom "Guilliame". Nous allons sans doute l'accepter quand même, je sais que ce n'est pas méchant, mais je trouve que c'est quand même un peu nono.
Friday, 2 September 2022
Vesuvio Souvenir
For our wedding anniversary, my wife and I went to Avanti, a little Italian restaurant in the little town of Wallingford. It was a lovely evening and Avanti was the perfect place to celebrate. Like many Italian restaurants, it had many little things that were used as part of the décor. Such as this bottle of what I assume was limoncello, in the shape of Italy and of a booth, called "Vesuvio Souvenir", so probably bought somewhere near Mount Vesuvius. I thought it was funny, this delicate carved bottle associated with a volcano. Anyway, we didn't drink limoncello after the meal, I'm not a big fan of it anyway, but for a moment I almost felt like I was back in Italy. My wife and I agree that we ought to visit it one day.
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Les noces de crystal
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Un bouquet d'anniversaire
Thursday, 2 September 2021
Say it with a lemur
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
14
Quick blog post to celebrate one anniversary: my wife and I have been married for 14 years today. The end of August is kind of fitting for a wedding day: it is a month of changes and transition. We probably will not do all that much to celebrate this year, being in the middle of the working week. Also, we are busy preparing Wolfie (and ourselves!) to his first year of school. We might do something bigger for our fifteen years anniversary. Once you have children, every anniversary becomes all about them in any case.
Sunday, 29 August 2021
La marche nuptiale (Brassens)
Bon, aujourd'hui n'est pas mon anniversaire de mariage, mais comme on s'y approche et comme c'était l'anniversaire de mariage de mes parents récemment, j'ai en tête cette chanson de Georges Brassens, que je partage aujourd'hui. Les circonstances de mes noces étaient très différentes, beaucoup moins dramatiques (et puis je suis plus jeune que les époux de la chanson). Mais bon, c'est une façon de souligner tant mon anniversaire de mariage que celui de mes parents.
Sunday, 30 August 2020
Happy Birthday Mary Shelley!
Monday, 3 February 2020
Des chandelles et des Chandeleurs
Hier, nous étions le Jour du Palindrome, aujourd'hui celui de l'allitération, en tout cas dans mon titre. Tout d'abord, un mot sur la photo: elle a été prise lors de nos Noces par une amie de ma femme, qui semble-t-il était très impressionnée par ce centre de table. Les chandelles, c'est plus dangereux, mais c'est moins quétaine que des ballounes.Donc hier, c'était la Chandeleur et j'ai oublié une observation sur le sujet. Vous connaissez le proverbe: "à la Chandeleur, l'hiver passe ou prend vigueur". S'il est vrai, il devrait donc passer, en tout cas ici.






