What have we been up to since I last checked in? Since I booked the honeymoon (which Liz is incidentally still very excited about) there have still been quite a few things to keep us busy…

As with most couples our parents weren't going to let this moment pass without a party and what a day we had. Friends, family, work colleagues (of both of us) were all in attendance for what (possibly inevitably) turned out to be an all day party. Fortunately the weather held for us (not guaranteed in the UK at the end of August) and we were able to use not only the house but overflowed into the garden until the early hours. Thankfully neither of us had to work on the Sunday as only a couple of hours sleep doesn't do anyone any good on a "school night"!

OK, so let me set the picture for you... It’s a beautiful warm summer's day in rural Staffordshire, Liz and I are on our first weekend off together for 6 weeks and we're sat in the garden of a spa retreat with a couple of ice cold beers waiting for lunch to arrive, and then it happened, 2 simple sentences that would ensure that the next 12 months were going to be some of the most complicated of my life...