[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-ten-years":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/super_anniv-79d35cdfa9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI can hardly believe it, Stuart and I have been married for ten years! It doesn't seem that long since we were at a party at our South African friends' flat in Moscow and then we decided to go see what a Russian Orthodox Christmas service was like. (The Russians have their Christmas a bit late.) So after a bunch of us had been standing around in \u003Ca href=\"http://uk.holidaysguide.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-80749-action-describe-church_of_kosmas_and_damian_tserkov_kos_my_i_damiana_moscow-i\">a church near Red Square\u003C/a> for awhile, getting dazzled by candles, I worked up the courage to ask Stuart for his phone number. We didn't even kiss for ages, because he was my best friend and I didn't want to spoil anything if he didn't fancy me \u003Ci>that\u003C/i> way, so everyone thought we were a couple for months before we actually were. The first time he kissed me was in the Kremlin Gardens and the next day I had to go to work and write headlines and photo captions for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.themoscowtimes.com/index.htm\">The Moscow Times\u003C/a> and the following day's newspaper read like total nonsense. \\r\n\u003Cb>Hooray for Stuart!\u003C/b> Putting up with a messy illustrator is not always easy.\\r\n\\r\nThis was for a different party, but look at the fabulous hat my sister made our of construction paper. (Just to add, the person wearing it is not my sister.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mary_hat-28415cbd72.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHee hee! I was really chuffed to get this photo from \u003Ca href=\"http://mangazebra.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">mangazebra\u003C/a> of her Vern and Lettuce coffee mug:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dfc_cup-269a015c8b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nViviane, Gary and I move into our new studio this weekend! We're so excited! More news on that soon...","2009-07-31T07:40:00.000Z","ten-years",[],"ten years!",1776628733009]