I’ve just received a wedding
invitation! Over the last few years I’ve been to lots of weddings. Trouble is
so many couples seem to go from being fun loving party animals to rather dull
duos who enjoy nothing more than a night in beside the telly with a nice cup
of tea and a bourbon biscuit.
I have of course, become an
expert in the duties of the Bridesmaid and the....wait for it.... Matron of
Honour! Me a matron! Wooo! And I every time I perform my role my Father says
the same thing ‘Miss Rosemary Pinkerton, always the bridesmaid never the
bride’.
Most of the nuptials take place
in damp dark grey walled churches where a bored looking vicar spouts the usual
stuff about obeying and procreating children. And almost without fail a nervous
friend of the couple will go to lectern and read a piece from the bible And
it’s always the same bit – Corinthians Chapter 13 which goes like ‘love is patient, love is kind, is not
jealousies, not pompous, it is not inflated (beg pardon?) it is not rude
(he-he!)
But the bit that makes me want to
stamp my size eight on the floor is the bit which says’ When I was a child, I
used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a
man, I put aside childish things’.
Obviously I’m not a man, but it’s
not that that makes me cross. You see, the thing is I still like to talk as a
child as many of you are only too aware! I have no intention of putting away
childish things - my Teddy stays exactly where it is! And when faced with a
problem I find it much easier to work through it if I reason like a child. I
have no problem with being a child and an adult at the same time. And ok, I
admit it - I still suck my thumb when I go to bed. If all that has to go, then
marriage 'aint for me!
So, back to the invitation. It’s
for Saturday June the sixth and I can take a friend. Anyone want to come?
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I am amazed there have been no offers. Perhaps you are known to cry at weddings and possible escorts would feel they have to give you a sympathetic hug and before they know where they are; with you smiling through the tears they will be proposing to you etc.etc. Now I'd love to come but it is 20,000 kms and there are lots of Aussie Sheilas over here, so I am sure you understand if I have to say no.
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