This dlog has, I know, been very quiet lately. There’s a simple reason for this: we’ve done almost nothing towards the wedding since April.

Fortunately, after a full 31 days without any updates, this has now started to change.

Today I went to Anthony Formalwear in Billericay, to follow up our previous visit. This time, I was measured up for the suit, by a General Manager who proposed a nip here, a tuck there and various other tweaks to their bog-standard clothes’ shape to suit my figure better. Marvellous. Then he asked for a deposit, and I rejected my initial – hilarious – thought of giving him some limescale, instead giving him permission to debit my credit card account.

The suit will be ready in six to seven weeks’ time, apparently, so you can certainly expect another update then. Hopefully there’ll be a lot more before then, too.

Meanwhile, thanks to the Channel 4 web site’s comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions section, I have been in touch with the very woman who designs Jon Snow’s fantastic ties, as worn on Channel 4 News each weeknight. Samples of our various wedding colours are now trudging their way to her through the post, and once she’s received those she can get to work on what will clearly be the most attractive tie she has ever produced: purple, yellow, cornflower blue and silver is definitely going to take some beating, isn’t it?

Interestingly, although she’s always happy to produce custom-coloured ties to order, she has to run them off in batches of 16, so she will have 15 of these for sale to others before long. So, zoolyweds fans everywhere: get yours while stocks last.

So all that’s left for me to choose now is a shirt and perhaps some shoes, but they’ll both wait until the suit is ready. Edith’s shoes, on the other hand, need choosing before she can get her dress adjusted, so expect a post on that front before too long. Or at least before 31 days’ time.