Simon Rules!

Amber and I got home from work on Tuesday at about the same time. We were in for perhaps ten minutes, and I went to the front of the house to get something when I glanced outside. Someone had replaced the dead tree in our front garden! How nice!

I found out what killed the old one, thanks to iPhoto:

Left: happier days. Right: R.I.P. tree.

It’s a bit difficult to see, but we added bark chips around the base of the tree, then it rained, and then it flooded. The bark chips stopped the excess water from drying up. New rule: don’t over-water the tree.

I’m back, and I’m a happily married man! The wedding was utterly amazing; Amber was beautiful, the weather was perfect, and it was amazing to see all the people who had travelled so far to wish us the best on our special day. Gavin’s best man speech was absolutely hilarious – it was like every sentence he spoke was a punchline, and he quickly had the entire room in stitches. Cheers Gav, you did a blinding job! Going back to the weather, we were extremely lucky because there had been a week of thunderstorms before the day, and there was a week of storms after.