[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-sally-nicholls-and-now-tom-nicholls":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sally_bonfire-dc7a27f409.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nSo it's official, novelist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sallynicholls.com\">Sally Nicholls\u003C/a> is hitched and Tom Harris is now Tom Nicholls, good man. Here's a quick drawing I made of Sally dancing in front of the massive bonfire, and the sparklers and firework display. It was quite a sight. I'll have to make another picture sometime with the fire juggler in the background. It all fit in so wonderfully with her latest novel, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sallynicholls.com/books/season-of-secrets/\">\u003Ci>Season of Secrets\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, featuring the Green Man and the Holly King:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>The roots of this novel come from the story of the green man, who is the pagan god of summer. A friend told me this story, and I was fascinated by the idea of a person so powerful that he can create summer across a whole world, but who is also incredibly vulnerable, because in order for winter to come, he must be killed. \u003C/i> (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.sallynicholls.com/books/season-of-secrets/\">Read more...\u003C/a>)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sallytom1-5316354acc.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sallytom3-29698faae9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSally and Tom got married in the old Quaker Meeting House in the village of Osmotherley, just next to the North Yorkshire Moors. I'd never been to a Quaker wedding before, but it was remarkably free from nerves and fuss. Sally and Tom said about four lines to each other, then we all sat quietly for an hour, except for a few people standing up to say a few words. Then we played croquet, petanque and a bit of archery with drinks in a field before dinner.\\r\n\u003C!--more More photos under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sallytom4-d2a2b9c6ab.jpg\"> \\r\n\\r\nTwo of Sally's bridesmaids with their knitted portraits by my studio mate, head of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stitchldn.com\">Stitch London\u003C/a>, Lauren O'Farrell:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sallytom5-9c59922199.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSeveral different kinds of cake stacked up, made by different people:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sallytom2-fa0ce19dae.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\\r\n \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sallytom7-7cd0801c2e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSally and Tom had their wedding in the middle of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.billh.demon.co.uk/c2c/coast2coast.html\">Wainwright's Coast to Coast walk\u003C/a>. They'd done a couple days and now have a bit less than three weeks more to walk to the Lakes District. They'd usually camp, but they're staying in B&Bs, since it's their honeymoon.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sallytom6-d92c9d289d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nStuart and I had a lovely morning today walking through the moor. I'm off to Leicster \u003Ci>early\u003C/i> tomorrow morning for two days of library Summer Reading Challenge \u003Ca href=\"http://www.spacehop.org.uk/\">Space Hop\u003C/a> events, but I'll try to post some hiking photos soon. Congratulations, Sally and Tom!","2010-07-19T22:12:00.000Z","sally-nicholls-and-now-tom-nicholls",[],"sally nicholls and now tom nicholls",1776628718463]